The United Nations Statistics Division issues standards and methods approved by the Statistical Commission to assist national statistical authorities and other producers of official statistics in ...

This website is a searchable repository, providing information on current practices in National Statistical Systems around the world, and international guidelines on statistical organizations. It ...

Life depends on oceans. They make up the planet’s largest ecosystem— covering more than two thirds of the Earth’s surface— and provide billions of people with food and livelihoods. Oceans produce ...

Medical and technological improvements over several decades have extended the lives of both women and men, who are expected at present to live an average of 72 and 68 years, respectively. An analysis ...

To serve the analytical purposes of the United Nations and the public the UNSD, mandated by the UNSC, annually collects national accounts data from Member States using a questionnaire based on the SNA ...

The International Family of Classifications primarily contains those classifications that have been reviewed and approved as guidelines by the United Nations Statistical Commission or other competent ...

In 2018, the Statistical Commission, in its decision 49/105, created a subgroup on open data under the Friends of the Chair group on the Fundamental Principles of Official Statistics (FOC-FPOS) to ...

The Good Practices Database, established in 2000, provides reference material from countries on the Fundamental Principles of Official Statistics, in particular examples of policies and practices in ...

The Population and Vital Statistics Report presents most recent data on population size (total, male and female) from the latest available census of the population, national official population ...

The National Accounts Main Aggregates Database presents a series of analytical national accounts tables from 1970 onwards for more than 200 countries and areas of the world. It is the product of a ...

Inclusive and sustainable industrialization, together with innovation and infrastructure, can unleash dynamic and competitive economic forces that generate employment and income. They play a key role ...

Copyright (c) United Nations, 1994. All rights reserved. World Comparison of Real Gross Domestic Product and Purchasing Power, 1985 is a United Nations publication ...