Vital statistics and their subsequent analysis and interpretation are essential for setting targets and evaluating social and economic plans, including the monitoring of health and population ...

The United Nations Statistical Commission (UNSC) at its fifty-third session in 2022 recommended the revision of the Classification of the Functions of Government (COFOG) and an assessment of whether ...

The United Nations Statistics Division has established a work programme to assist policy-makers and statisticians in countries to meet the growing demand for poverty statistics and related information ...

The System of National Accounts (SNA) is the internationally agreed standard set of recommendations on how to compile measures of economic activity. The SNA describes a coherent, consistent and ...

This page includes resources that are helpful for “domestication” or “nationalization” of the SDGs. Countries are encouraged to adapt the global targets and indicators to national conditions, ...

Countries have made strides in meeting obligations under international environmental agreements on hazardous waste and other chemicals and implementing comprehensive approaches to combat environmental ...

The United Nations Statistics Division collects, compiles and disseminates official national statistics on births, deaths and life expectancy through the Demographic Yearbook data collection system.

Introduction Statistics Standards and methods Demographic Yearbook data collection system The United Nations Statistics Division is the primary agency responsible, at an international level, for ...

The Monthly Bulletin of Statistics Online presents current economic and social statistics for more than 200 countries and territories of the world. It contains 12 tables of monthly, quarterly and ...

This AI and Data Science Sprint for Economic Statistics plays an important role in the ongoing efforts of the statistical community to integrate advanced data science techniques within the framework ...

Description: The Handbook on Data Template and Metadata for Short-Term Statistics has been prepared as part of the International Programme on Short-Term Statistics endorsed by the United Nations ...

Table 1 - Population, rate of increase, birth and death rates, surface area and density for the world, major areas and regions: selected years pdf xls Notes - pdf Table 2 - Estimates of population and ...