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Statistics and Indicators
Reports, databases and archives relating to gender equality and women's human rights
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- Left Behind -- Girls' Education in Africa
[ http://www.uis.unesco.org/ ]
Languages: English | French | Spanish
What would your life be like with only five years of schooling? For many African girls, this is the most education they can expect and they are the lucky ones. Across the region, 28 million girls roughly between the ages of 6 and 15 are not in school, and many will never even set foot in a classroom. UNESCO UIS. 2015.
- Hidden in Plain Sight: A statistical analysis of violence against children
[ http://www.unicef.org/ ]
Languages: Arabic | English | French | Spanish
Interpersonal violence – in all its forms – has a grave effect on children: Violence undermines children's future potential; damages their physical, psychological and emotional well-being; and in many cases, ends their lives. The report sheds light on the prevalence of different forms of violence against children, with global figures and data from 190 countries. Where relevant, data are disaggregated by age and sex, to provide insights into risk and protective factors. UNICEF. 2014.
- Millennium Development Goals Report 2014
[ http://www.un.org/ ]
Languages: Arabic | Chinese | English | French | Russian
The MDG report is based on comprehensive official statistics and provides the most up-to-date summary of all Goals and their targets at global and regional levels, with additional national statistics available online. Results show that concentrated efforts to achieve MDG targets by national governments, the international community, civil society and the private sector are working to lift people out of extreme poverty and improve their futures. UN. 2014.
- Gender Statistics
[ http://www.un.org/ ]
Languages: English
Following the recommendations by the United Nations Statistical Commission (decision 42/102), and as reported to its forty-fourth session (E/CN.3/2013/10), the Inter-agency and Expert Group on Gender Statistics through its Advisory Group on Global Gender Statistics and Indicators Database, including experts from national statistical systems and international agencies, identified a minimum set of gender indicators composed of 52 quantitative indicators grouped into three tiers and 11 qualitative indicators covering national norms and laws on gender equality. UN.
- Mind the Gap: Gender & Education
[ http://www.uis.unesco.org/ ]
Languages: English | French | Spanish
A new online tool highlighting the progress and pitfalls of girls' and women's education around the world. UNESCO. UIS.
- UNESCO Fact Sheet on Women in Science
[ http://www.uis.unesco.org/ ]
Languages: English | French
Women and men tend to take different career paths and the research field is no exception. Overall, women account for a minority of the world's researchers. Despite the growing demand for cross nationally comparable statistics on women in science, national data and their use in policymaking often remain limited. This document presents global and regional profiles pinpointing where women thrive in this sector and where they are under-represented. UNESCO. UIS.
- The Global Education Digest
[ http://www.uis.unesco.org/ ]
Languages: English | French
The Global Education Digest presents the latest education statistics worldwide. UNESCO. UIS.
- Gender Equality Data and Statistics
[ http://datatopics.worldbank.org/gender/ ]
Languages: English
This gender data portal is a one-stop shop for gender information, catering to a wide range of users and providing data from a variety of sources. Data at the country level are organized under six thematic headings, which are aligned to the themes identified by the Inter-agency and Expert Group on Gender Statistics. The World Bank.
- World Bank eAtlas of Gender
[ http://www.app.collinsindicate.com/worldbankatlas-gender/en-us ]
Languages: English
This World Bank eAtlas of Gender, the latest in a suite of user-friendly, interactive electronic atlases, allows users to map and graph dozens of gender indicators over time and across countries.
- UNdata
[ data.un.org ]
Languages: English
UNdata is a data access system to UN databases that brings UN statistical data within easy reach of users through a single entry point (http://data.un.org/). The UN-system has accumulated over the past 60 years an impressive amount of information. UNdata, developed by the Statistics Division of UN DESA, is a powerful tool, which brings this unique and authoritative set of data not only to the desks of decision makers and analysts, but also to journalists, to students and to all citizens of the world.
- Facts & Figures on Rural Women and the Millennium Development Goals
- Gender and Land Rights Database
[ www.fao.org/gender/landrights ]
Languages: English | French | Spanish
This database contains country-level information on the national and customary laws governing land use, property rights and inheritance. It offers information on women's and men's legal rights in access to land.
- Infographic: The female face of farming
[ www.fao.org/gender/infographic/en/ ]
Languages: English
Women are the backbone of the rural economy, especially in the developing world. Yet they receive only a fraction of the land, credit, inputs (such as improved seeds and fertilizers), agricultural training and information compared to men. Empowering and investing in rural women has been shown to significantly increase productivity, reduce hunger and malnutrition and improve rural livelihoods. And not only for women, but for everyone. Let's take a closer look at the story of women and agriculture.
- Closing the Gap between men and women in agriculture
[ www.fao.org/sofa/gender/en/ ]
Languages: English
The agriculture sector is underperforming in many developing countries, in part because men and women do not have equal access to the resources and opportunities they need to be productive. Across countries and contexts: women have consistently less access than men to agricultural assets, inputs and services and to rural employment opportunities. Increasing women's access to land, livestock, education, financial services, extension, technology and rural employment would boost their productivity and generate gains in agricultural output, food security, economic growth and social welfare. The gains in agricultural production alone could lift 100–150 million people out of hunger. Closing the gender gap is not only the right thing to do. It is crucial for agricultural development and food security.
- The State of Food and Agriculture 2010-2011: Women in agriculture: closing the gender gap for development
[ www.fao.org/s] Languages:
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The State of Food and Agriculture 2010–11
makes the "business case" for addressing gender
issues in agriculture and rural employment. The
agriculture sector is underperforming in many
developing countries, in part because women
do not have equal access to the resources and
opportunities they need to be more productive.
The gender gap imposes real costs on society in
terms of lost agricultural output, food security
and economic growth. Promoting gender
equality is not only good for women; it is also
good for agricultural development.
- The World's Women
The World's Women is a statistical source-book produced by UN Department of Economic and Social Affairs providing a comprehensive analysis of women in different parts of the world. It highlights the main findings of statistical analysis worldwide in a broad range of fields -- including families, health, education, work, human rights and politics.
- The World's Women 2010: Trends and Statistics
[ unstats.un.org ]
Languages: English
The World’s Women 2010: Trends and Statistics is the fifth issue of The World’s Women and is being produced to coincide with the first-ever World’s Statistics Day, 20 October 2010. The 2010 issue highlights the differences in the status of women and men in eight areas - population and families, health, education, work, power and decision-making, violence against women, environment and poverty. Analyses are based mainly on statistics from international and national statistical sources.
- The World's Women 2005: Progress in Statistics
[ unstats.un.org ]
Languages: English
The World's Women 2005: Progress in Statistics is the first to review and analyze national capacity to collect and report sex-disaggregated data on core socioeconomic topics relevant for addressing gender concerns.
- Special Report of the World's Women 2005: Progress in Statistics
[ unstats.un.org ]
Languages: English
The Special Report of the World's Women 2005: Progress in Statistics provides an overview of country reporting and data sources focusing on sex-disaggregated statistics on population, births and deaths.
- The World's Women 2000: Trends and Statistics
[ unstats.un.org ]
Languages: English
The third issue in the series of reports (the other two issued in 1991 and 1995) that looks at the status of women through the lens of statistical data and analysis.
- Progress of the World's Women
Progress of the World's Women is a biennial investigation of progress made towards a world where women live free from violence, poverty and inequality.
- Progress of the World’s Women 2011: In Pursuit of Justice
[ progress.unwomen.org ]
Languages: English | Spanish
The 2011 edition of the UN Women flagship report recognizes progress, but calls on governments to take urgent action to end the injustices that keep women poorer and less powerful than men in every country in the world.
- Progress of the World’s Women 2008/2009: Who Answers to Women? Gender and Accountability
[ www.unifem.org ]
Languages: English
The report focuses on five key areas where the need to strengthen accountability to women is urgent: politics and governance, access to public services, economic opportunities, justice, and finally the distribution of international assistance for development and security.
- Progress of the World's Women 2005: Women, Work and Poverty
[ www.unifem.org ]
Languages: English
The report argues for closer attention to the role of women, particularly working poor women, in the informal economy, and the impact of this on efforts to meet the Millennium Development Goals.
- Progress of the World's Women 2002 "Gender Equality and the Millennium Development Goals"
[ www.unifem.org ]
Languages: English
This report assesses progress towards gender equality in the context of the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), including through the use of statistics and indicators.
- Education for All Global Monitoring Report
- State of the World's Children
- Human Development Report
The Human Development Report is an independent report, commissioned by UNDP. Since the first Report in 1990, four new composite indices for human development have been developed -- the Human Development Index, the Gender-related Development Index, the Gender Empowerment Measure, and the Human Poverty Index. Each Report also focuses on a topical theme in the current development debate, providing path-breaking analysis and policy recommendations.
- Human Development Report 2010 - 20th Anniversary: A new measure of gender inequality
[ hdr.undp.org ]
Languages: Arabic
Chinese
English
French
Russian
Spanish
The disadvantages facing women and girls are a major source of inequality. All too often, women and girls are discriminated against in health, education and the labour market—with negative repercussions for their freedoms. We introduce a new measure of these inequalities built on the same framework as the HDI and the IHDI— to better expose differences in the distribution of achievements between women and men (figure 5.4 of the Report). The Gender Inequality Index shows that:
- Gender inequality varies tremendously across countries—the losses in achievement due to gender inequality (not directly comparable to total inequality losses because different variables are used) range from 17 percent to 85 percent. The Netherlands tops the list of the most gender-equal countries, followed by Denmark, Sweden and Switzerland.
- Countries with unequal distribution of human development also experience high inequality between women and men, and countries with high gender inequality also experience unequal distribution of human development. Among the countries doing very badly on both fronts are Central African Republic, Haiti and Mozambique.
- State of World Population
- State of World Population 2010: From Conflict and Crisis to Renewal
[ www.unfpa.org ]
Languages: Arabic | English | French | Russian | Spanish
The release of the 2010 edition of the State of World Population report coincides with the 10th anniversary of UN Security Council resolution 1325, which recognizes and seeks to address the vulnerability of women and girls to violence during and after armed conflict, and the absence or low level of women’s representation in efforts to prevent war, build peace and restore devastated societies.
The report highlights how women in conflict and post-conflict situations—as well as in emergencies or protracted crises— are faring a decade later. It draws on the experiences of women and girls, men and boys, living in the wake of conflict and other catastrophic disruptions. They speak for themselves about the challenges they face, the ways their communities are coping and becoming more resilient and about ow many of them have become involved in reconstruction and renewal. UNFPA, 2010
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State of World Population 2009: Facing a Changing World: Women, Population and Climate
[ www.unfpa.org ]
Languages: Arabic | English | French | Russian | Spanish
The 2009 flagship report argues that reproductive health care, including family planning, and gender relations could influence the future course of climate change and affect how humanity adapts to rising seas, worsening storms and severe droughts. Women, especially impoverished women in developing countries, bear the disproportionate burden of climate change, but have so far been largely overlooked in the debate about how to address problems of rising seas, droughts, melting glaciers and extreme weather, the report concludes.
- State of World Population 2008: Reaching Common Ground: Culture, Gender and Human Rights
[ www.unfpa.org ]
Languages: English | French | Spanish
Development strategies should be more culturally sensitive to the promotion of human rights, especially women's rights, the new UNFPA annual report finds, warning that otherwise many projects in poor countries are likely to fail. UNFPA, 2008
- State of World Population 2007: Unleashing the Potential of Urban Growth
[ www.unfpa.org ]
Languages: English | French | Spanish | Arabic | Russian
In 2008, for the first time, more than half of the world's population will be living in urban areas. By 2030, towns and cities will be home to almost 5 billion people. The urban population of Africa and Asia will double in less than a generation. This unprecedented shift could enhance development and promote sustainability-or it could deepen poverty and accelerate environmental degradation. Women's empowerment and well-being are the pillars of sustainable cities...
- State of World Population 2006: A Passage to Hope: Women and International Migration
[ www.unfpa.org ]
Languages: English | French | Spanish | Arabic | Russian
Today, half of all international migrants-95 million-are women and girls. Yet, despite substantial contributions to both their families at home and communities abroad, the needs of migrant women continue to be overlooked and ignored. The State of World Population 2006 report, A Passage to Hope: Women and International Migration, examines the scope and breadth of female migration, the impact of the funds they send home to support families and communities, and their disproportionate vulnerability to trafficking, exploitation and abuse. The report reveals that although migrant women contribute billions of dollars in cash and services, policymakers continue to disregard both their contributions and their vulnerability-even though female migrants tend to send a much higher proportion of their lower earnings back home than their male counterparts.
- State of World Population 2005: The Promise of Equality: Gender Equity, Reproductive Health & the MDGs
[ www.unfpa.org ]
Languages: English | French | Spanish | Arabic | Russian
Each year since 1978, UNFPA has issued a report highlighting new developments in population. Recent reports have dealt with a world of 6 billion; the unprecedented growth of young and old generations; reproductive rights and reproductive health; and urbanization.
- State of World Population 2004: The Cairo Consensus at Ten: Population, Reproductive Health and The Global Effort to End Poverty
[ www.unfpa.org ]
Languages: English | French | Spanish | Arabic | Chinese | Russian
The Cairo Consensus at Ten: Population, Reproductive Health and the Global Effort to End Poverty, examines the progress countries have made and the obstacles they have encountered at the halfway point in implementing the ICPD plan.
- The State of World Population 2003: Making 1 Billion Count: Investing in Adolescents' Health and Rights
[ www.unfpa.org ]
Languages: English | French | Spanish | Arabic | Russian
- The State of World Population 2002: People, Poverty and Possibilities
[ www.unfpa.org ]
Languages: English | French | Spanish | Arabic | Russian
- The State of World Population 2001, UNFPA report - "Footprints and Milestones: Population and Environmental Change. "
[ www.unfpa.org ]
Languages: English | French | Spanish | Arabic | Russian
The report examines the close links between environmental conditions, population trends, and prospects for alleviating poverty in developing countries. It finds that expanding women's opportunities and ensuring their reproductive health and rights are critically important, both to improve the well-being of growing human populations and to protect the natural world.
- The State of World Population 2000 , UNFPA Report - " Lives Together, Worlds Apart: Men and Women in a Time of Change"
[ www.unfpa.org ]
Languages: English | French | Spanish
The report examines a broad range of evidence from around the world showing that systematic discrimination against women and girls causes extensive suffering and lost opportunities for both women and men, and holds back efforts to reduce poverty, improve health, stem the spread of HIV/AIDS and slow rapid population growth.
- Agri-Gender Statistics Toolkit
[ www.fao.org ]
Languages: English
The "Agri-Gender Statistics Toolkit" is a database with a cross range of tools for the collection and use of sex-disaggregated agricultural data, and designed for development specialists and planners. The so-called "AGRI-GENDER DATABASE" provides examples of questions asked in agricultural census programmes implemented in selected countries in Africa over the past two decades, covering the following data items: agricultural population and households; access to productive resources; production and productivity; destination of agricultural produce; labour and time-use; income and expenditures; membership of agricultural/farmer organisations; food security; poverty indicators. Furthermore, the toolkit contains examples of table formats that facilitate the presentation of gender relevant data in agriculture.
- Gender Info 2007
[ www.devinfo.info ]
Languages: | English
Gender Info 2007 is a global database of gender statistics and indicators on a wide range of policy areas, including: population, families, health, education, work, and political participation. Gender Info 2007 is an initiative of the United Nations Statistics Division, produced in collaboration with the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) and the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA). UNSTATS, 2007
- Data.Worldbank.org
[ data.worldbank.org ]
Languages: Arabic | English | French | Spanish
Data.worldbank.org, launched in May 2010, offers free access to more than 2,000 financial, business, health, economic and human development statistics and is also available in French, Spanish, and Arabic. In addition to providing free access to a large number of development indicators which were formerly available by subscription only, the new site allows users to download entire datasets for a particular country or indicator, quickly access raw data, click a button to comment on the data, and email and share data with social media sites. The data come from many sources including the Bank's 186 member countries and more than 30 international agencies, private and NGO partners. World Bank, 2010.
- ECLAC Gender Equality Observatory of Latin America and the Caribbean
[ www.cepal.org ]
Languages: English | French | Portugese | Spanish
The initiative provides information and indicators online on the physical, economic and decision-making autonomy of women in Latin America and the Caribbean. ECLAC, 2009
- MDG Gender Equality and Women’s Empowerment Progress Chart 2008
[ mdgs.un.org ]
Languages: English
The MDG Gender Equality and Women’s Empowerment Progress Chart 2008, an output of the Inter-Agency and Expert Group on MDG Indicators, provides an assessment of progress towards a number of the key targets related to women’s empowerment and gender equality. Trends are assessed on the basis of data between 1990 and the most recent year for which information was available as of June 2008, when this chart was prepared.
UN Statistics Division, 2008
- Global Forum on Gender Statistics, 2009
[ http://unstats.un.org/ ]
Languages: English
The second Global Forum on Gender Statistics took place from 26-28 January 2009 in Accra, Ghana. The documents for this meeting, including the final report, are available online.
- Global Forum on Gender Statistics, 2007
[ http://unstats.un.org/ ]
Languages: English
The first Global Forum on Gender Statistics took place from 10-12 December 2007 in Rome, Italy. It was organised by UNSD, DAW, UNFPA/ECE, and Italy, in collaboration with the World Bank. The documents for this meeting, including the final report, are available online.
- United Nations Interagency and Expert Group Meeting on Gender Statistics, 2009
[ http://unstats.un.org/ ]
Languages: English
The second Interagency and Expert Group Meeting on Gender Statistics took place on 29 January 2009 in Accra, Ghana. The documents for this meeting, including the final report, are available online.
- Inter-Agency and Expert Group Meeting on the Development of Gender Statistics, 2006
[ http://unstats.un.org/ ]
Languages: English
The first Inter-Agency and Expert Group Meeting on the Development of Gender Statistics took place from 12-14 December 2006 in New York, USA. The documents for this meeting, including the final report, are available online.
- ESCWA Gender Statistics Programme (GSP)
[ www.escwa.un.org ]
Languages: English
GSP aims to enhance national capabilities in the production, use and dissemination of gender statistics to lead to more effective policies promoting change for the benefit of women and the advancement of society as a whole.
- DESA social indicators
[ unstats.un.org ]
Languages: English
Social indicators covering a wide range of subject-matter fields are compiled by the Statistics Division, Department of Economic and Social Affairs of the United Nations Secretariat, from many national and international sources in the global statistical system
- DESA Statistics Division: Gender Publications Listing
[ unstats.un.org ]
Languages: English
This on-line publication listing is regularly updated and includes all Statistical Division publications in current use.
- UNECE Gender Statistics Website for Europe and North America
[ www.unece.org ]
Languages: English
The Gender Statistics Database is a central database for sex-disaggregated social data providing Common Gender Indicators for the UNECE region and the detailed data series which are used to calculate these indicators. The Database is an integral part of the UNECE/UNDP Gender Statistics Website for Europe and North America that has been developed in collaboration with National Statistical Offices in the region and UNDP.
- UNESCAP Statistical Report Series
[ www.unescap.org ]
Languages: English
Include gender statistics 2000 and country profiles on women in 16 countries of Asia and Pacific region
- ESCWA statistics publications
[ www.escwa.un.org ]
Languages: English
Includes gender statistics
- UNESCO Institute for Statistics
[ www.uis.unesco.org ]
Languages: English | French
- FAO: Filling the Data Gap - Gender-sensitive statistics for agricultural development
[ www.fao.org ]
Languages: English
Publication prepared by the Statistics Division, Economic and Social Department and the Women and Population Division, Sustainable Development Department, FAO for the High-Level Consultation on Rural Women and Information, Rome, 4-6 October 1999
- Estadísticas
e indicadores de género
[ www.eclac.org ]
Languages: | Spanish
Los Gobiernos, investigadores y personas interesadas en conocer
la situación de las mujeres y los hombres de América Latina y el
Caribe, encontrarán en este espacio toda la información disponible,
desagregada por sexo, en cada uno de los países y una visión comparada
de la región.
- Estadísticas para la equidad de género. Magnitudes y tendencias en América Latina
[ www.eclac.org ]
Languages: Spanish
ECLAC, 2007
- Good Practices Database
[ www.un.org ]
Languages: English
Good Practices in gender mainstreaming and implementing Beijing Platform for Action, the database is a project of the Inter-Agency Committee on Women and Gender Equality (IACWGE)
- Women's Status and Children's Food Security in Pakistan
[ www.wider.unu.edu ]
Languages: English
This article examines the role of women's intra-household status relative to men in children's food security in Pakistan. UNU-WIDER, 2006
- Women's Status and Children's Food Security in Pakistan
[ www.wider.unu.edu ]
Languages: English
This article examines the role of women's intra-household status relative to men in children's food security in Pakistan. UNU-WIDER, 2006
- The Millennium Development Goals Report
[ mdgs.un.org ]
Languages: English
Status report on progress towards the MDGs. The report presents the latest assessment on how far we have come, and how far we have to go in reaching the goals, in each of the world's regions. UN Statistics Division / DESA, 2008
- Millennium Development Goals Indicators
[ mdgs.un.org ]
Languages: English
The new official United Nations MDG indicators website features the new database with the most up-to-date data and metadata on MDG Indicators. UN Statistics Division / DESA, 2006 - 2008
- ILO: Global Employment Trends for Women
[ www.ilo.org ]
Languages: English
- e.quality@work: ILO information base on Equal Employment Opportunities
[ www.ilo.org ]
Languages: English
- Poverty statistics
[ daccess-ods.un.org ]
Languages: English | French | Spanish | Arabic | Chinese | Russian
Report of the Secretary-Generaldated 10 December 2003 prepared by DESA Statistical Division
- DESA: Indicators for monitoring the implementation of the Millennium Development Goals
[ daccess-ods.un.org ]
Languages: English | French | Spanish | Arabic | Chinese | Russian
Report of the Secretary-General including information on gender equality indicators.
- UNESCO Education Statistics: Gender parity in education - not there yet
[ www.uis.unesco.org ]
Languages: English
This fact sheet is based on analysis of UIS data in the 2008 edition of the EFA Global
Monitoring Report1. The UIS is the main data source of the report. UNESCO, 2008
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