All statistics were provided by UNAIDS and the World Health Organization.

High quality international statistics, accessible to all, are a fundamental element of global information systems.

3. The United Nations recognizes the World Tourism Organization as the appropriate organization to collect, to analyse, to publish, to standardize and to improve the statistics of tourism and to promote the integration of these statistics within the sphere of the United Nations system.

Sources UNCTAD, Handbook of Statistics, 2004 (exports and imports of merchandise) and World Bank, World Development Indicators 2005 (GDP).

On the other hand, global statistics on crime indicate that the level of crime in a society is inversely related to the level of social development.

Statistics

Subprogramme 2 Statistics

Statistics

Social statistics

Tourism statistics

Public administration and development

Members (55)

An interesting set of statistics has been provided by World Steel Dynamics (WSD) regarding the fluctuations that the world steel industry has experienced since 1954 (see table 1).

The 2004 and 2005 rounds of the UNIDO OECD joint annual compilation programme of global industrial statistics

(i) Statistical Committee

As a result, the comparison and integration of agricultural statistics with other statistics was impaired.

(Source Table 18 Statistics Bulletin 5, 2003, Bosnia and Herzegovina Statistics Agency.

(Source Table 17 Statistics Bulletin 5, 2003, Statistic Agency of Bosnia and Herzegovina.

National Statistics Office.

2. The World Tourism Organization recognizes that the United Nations is the central agency for the collection, analysis, publication, standardization and improvement of tourism statistics serving the general purposes of international organizations.

Basic statistics population and education

Basic statistics population and education

Basic Statistics Population and Education

The figure for males declined slightly from 1.0 to 0.91 .

National Statistics Office. (2000c). Labour Market Survey Report. Port Vila NSO.

2002 Statistical Year Book. Port Vila NSO.

b. Parliamentary documentation three reports to the Statistical Committee five year review of the Millennium Development Goals strategy of economic and sectoral statistics and strategy of social statistics in the ESCWA region

1. States Parties undertake to collect appropriate information, including statistical and research data, to enable them to formulate and implement policies to give effect to the present Convention. The process of collecting and maintaining this information shall

Source National Statistics Office, 2000a.

Source National Statistics Office, 2002b.

Source Finance Department, 2004.

Education is the only formal sector industry where women and men are represented about equally.

Source National Statistics Office, 2000b.

Need for gender statistics

(i) Supporting gender statistics units.

STATISTICS, STUDIES AND INFORMATION

STATISTICS, STUDIES AND INFORMATION

Source Central Bureau of Statistics, 2004

Source Central Bureau of Statistics, 2004

Source Central Bureau of Statistics, 2004

The national strategies for the development of statistics

Source UNCTAD, Handbook of Statistics, 2004.

National Statistics Office. Vanuatu National Population and Housing Census Main Report. Port Vila NSO.

National Statistics Office. (2001) Informal Sector Survey 2000. Port Vila NSO.

The dialogue between the national statistical office and women's groups could, for instance, increase the capacity of statisticians to identify and understand gender issues and to present data in formats that better address users' needs.