The decline of extreme poverty continues, but the pace has slowed, and the world is not on track to achieving the target of ending poverty by 2030. Extreme poverty today is concentrated and ...

The 7th meeting of the UN Committee of Experts on Business and Trade Statistics will take place from 24 - 26 September 2024 in Geneva, Switzerland. The meeting will be hosted by the World Trade ...

The EGWM aims to (a) deliver the Framework for Inclusive and Sustainable Wellbeing (FISW), meeting user needs and reflecting producer constraints, (b) ensure the FISW has a clear conceptual framework ...

The Data For Now Initiative supports the development of new partnerships to improve official statistics and has, in this context, also been exploring partnerships between National Statistical Offices ...

Adopting advanced IT infrastructure is crucial for statistics offices to enhance their capacity to collect, analyze, and utilize data to achieve the sustainable development goals (SDGs). This requires ...

Bearing in mind that statistics are essential for sustainable economic, environmental and social development and that public trust in official statistics is anchored in professional independence and ...

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 ...

Inequality between women and men tends to be severe and highly visible in power and decision-making arenas. In most societies around the world, women hold only a minority of decision-making positions ...

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 ...

This page contains data specific resources for monitoring the SDG indicators: such as data portal, baseline reports etc. It also includes reference materials pertinent to regional and sub-regional ...

The Group of Experts is composed of experts from various linguistic/geographical divisions that have been established by the UN Conferences on the Standardization of Geographical Names. Countries ...