Monthly Bulletin of Statistics and MBS Online
The Monthly Bulletin of Statistics presents current economic and social statistics for more than 200 countries and territories of the world. It contains over 50 tables of monthly and/or bimonthly, quarterly and annual data on a variety of subjects illustrating important economic trends and developments, including population, prices, employment and earnings, energy, manufacturing, transport, construction, international merchandise trade and finance.
Vol. LXIX – No. 1, January 2015
In addition to the regular recurrent monthly tables, this issue includes quarterly tables: Civil aviation traffic: passenger-km and cargo net ton-km; Total exports and imports by countries or areas: volume, unit value, terms of trade and purchasing power of exports, in US dollars.
Demographic Yearbook 2013 (DYB 2013)
The Demographic Yearbook 2013 has been published online by UN DESA’s Statistics Division. It is the sixty-fourth issue in a series published by the United Nations since 1948. It contains tables on a wide range of demographic statistics, including a world summary of selected demographic statistics, statistics on the size, distribution and trends in national populations, fertility, foetal mortality, infant and maternal mortality, general mortality, nuptiality and divorce. Data are shown by urban/rural residence, as available. In addition, the volume provides Technical Notes, a synoptic table, a historical index and a listing of the issues of the Demographic Yearbook published to date. This issue of Demographic Yearbook contains data as available including the reference year 2013.
Industrial Commodity Statistics Yearbook 2012
The 2012 edition of the Industrial Commodity Statistics Yearbook has been published. This is the forty-sixth in a series of annual compilations of statistics on world industry designed to meet both the general demand for information of this kind and the special requirements of the United Nations and related international bodies.
This edition of the Yearbook presents data on production of about 600 industrial commodities by country or area. The data includes physical quantities and monetary value of the production that was carried out at some point in time and has been sold (invoiced) during the reference period. The Yearbook is organized in two volumes, namely Volume I: Physical Quantity Data and Volume II: Monetary Value Data. The statistics refer to the ten year period 2003-2012 for about 200 countries or areas.
The data covers only products produced by mining, manufacturing and electricity and gas units that are classified in sections B, C, and D of the International Standard Industrial Classification of All Economic Activities (ISIC) Revision 4. The selection of industrial commodities is based on the United Nations List of Industrial Products, established in 2005 (http://unstats.un.org/unsd/industry/commoditylist2.asp). The List is comprised of a selected set of products intended for data collection on industrial production. The List is not intended to represent an exhaustive list of industrial or manufacturing products. Products have been selected on the basis of their overall importance and their importance as outputs of individual ISIC industries in the world economy. Moreover, a consolidated list on contract processing services for industrial products has been included.
The Demographic Yearbook Online Dissemination of Population and Housing Censuses’ datasets to UNdata
UN DESA’s Statistics Division has updated the Population and Housing Censuses datasets for the 2000 and 2010 rounds (1995 to the present), published via the UNdata portal. This update includes the censuses’ datasets reported during the year 2014, by the National Statistical Offices to the Demographic Yearbook system.
These datasets cover population by several characteristics such as age, sex, marital status, population of cities, recent fertility and mortality, and lifetime fertility from household responses, household, ethnocultural and economic characteristics, migrant stock, and housing characteristics.
Outreach material
Sustainable Development in Action, Volume 3, Issue 2
The February issue of Sustainable Development in Action, published by UN DESA’s Division for Sustainable Development, highlights among others, the High-level Thematic Debate on Means of Implementation for a Transformative Post-2015 Development Agenda and the February session of post-2015 negotiations. The newsletter aims to feature the work carried out by Member States, United Nations system, Major Groups and other relevant stakeholders in implementing sustainable development and leading the way to the Future We Want.
Youth Flash Newsletter
“Youth inclusivity and the post-2015 development agenda” is the topic of one of the articles presented in the February issue of United Nations Youth Flash. The newsletter is a service of the Division for Social Policy and Development (DSPD) Focal Point on Youth to help keep the public informed about the work of the UN on youth issues. It is prepared with input from UN offices, agencies, funds and programmes, and from youth organizations all over the world.
DESA NGO News
The latest issue of DESA NGO provides the most up-to-date information on news and upcoming events of interest to civil society at UN headquarters in New York, Geneva and elsewhere. The newsletter is published by UN DESA’s NGO Branch.
Discussion papers
Monthly Briefing on the World Economic Situation and Prospects No. 75
Prepared by UN DESA’s Development Policy and Analysis Division, the February issue is available online with the following summary:
– Major central bank policy swings in Switzerland and the euro area
– Euro area deflation sets in
– Oil exporters face increased fiscal challenges, while lower commodity prices ease inflationary pressures
Working papers
The Global Consumption and Income Project (GCIP): An Introduction and Preliminary Findings
Two separate datasets (The Global Consumption Dataset (GCD) and The Global Income Dataset (GID)) are introduced, containing an unprecedented portrait of consumption and income of persons over time, within and across countries, around the world. The benchmark version of the dataset presents estimates in PPP units of monthly real consumption and income for every decile of the population (a ‘consumption/income profile’) for 133 countries and more than half a century (1960-2012). The construction of the datasets is described and some possible uses are demonstrated by presenting preliminary results concerning the consumption distribution, poverty and inequality for the world and specific country aggregates.
Websites
Launch of new website of the Capacity Development Office (CDO/DESA)
The new redesigned website, which was launched on 18 February, comes with an improved navigation structure and better incorporates latest developments on the Internet. UN DESA’s Capacity Development Office (CDO/DESA) provides broad substantive guidance and management to the implementation of the Department’s capacity development work, promoting effective translation of intergovernmental outcomes into the Department’s operational programmes and capacity development work.
