Capacity Development
The Population Division builds and strengthens national capacities to estimate and analyse population levels and trends and other demographic indicators for formulating and implementing national policies and programmes related to population and development. This work is guided by intergovernmental agreements, including the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development and the Global Compact for Safe, Orderly and Regular Migration. To support this work, the Division also produces handbooks and guidelines on methodological issues, organizes regional and in-country workshops, and conducts field missions.
Handbooks and manuals
- Handbook for Improving the Production and Use of Migration Data for Development 2017
- Mortpak for windows, 2013
- National Transfer Accounts Manual: Measuring and Analysing the Generational Economy 2013
- Methods for Estimating adult mortality 2002
- Preparing Migration Data for Subnational Population Projections 1992
- Qfive - United Nations Program for Child Mortality Estimation: A microcomputer program to accompany the Step-by-Step Guide to the Estimation of Child Mortality 1990
- Step-by-Step Guide to the Estimation of Child Mortality 1990
- Manual IX - The Methodology of Measuring the Impact of Family Planning Programmes on Fertility (Addendum) 1986
- Manual X - Indirect Techniques for Demographic Estimation 1983
- Model Life Tables for Developing Countries 1982
- Manual IX - The Methodology of Measuring the Impact of Family Planning Programmes on Fertility 1979
- Methods of Measuring the Impact of Family Planning Programmes on Fertility: Problems and Issues 1978
- Manual VIII - Methods for Projections of Urban and Rural Population 1974
- Manual VII - Methods of Projecting households and Families 1973
- Manual VI - Methods of Measuring Internal Migration 1971
Tools and software
- MortPak - The United Nations Software Package for Mortality Measurement
- Templates for the projection of demographic components and related scenarios
- E-Learning for SDG indicator 3.7.1 [PowerPoint] [Video]
- E-Learning for SDG indicator 3.7.2 [PowerPoint] [Video]
- Extended Model Life Tables
- R Scripts for computing adult and maternal mortality from DHS sibling survival histories, Technical Paper No. 2019/2
- Family Planning Estimation Tool (FPET)
- Demopaedia – Multilingual Demographic Dictionary
Events
06 August 2020 to 07 August 2020
25 November 2019 to 27 November 2019
09 September 2019 to 11 September 2019
05 August 2019 to 09 August 2019