From A as in Acid to Z as in Zinc, the complete series of historical Statistical Yearbooks has been digitized and is now freely available online. The project comprised a joint effort between the Dag Hammarskjöld Library and the Statistics Division of the Department of Economic and Social Affairs.
To mark the launch of the Statistical Yearbook 2017, the Library’s Digitization Unit scanned 55 volumes of past issues referencing statistics of countries and regions dating back to 1948. The yearbooks are accessible in the UN Digital Library.
As of the beginning of October 2017, 445,000 UN documents have been digitized, which represents roughly 15% percent of the UN documents identified as in need of urgent digitization.
Other recently digitized series include:
- Report of the Commission for Social Development (1946-1996)
- Report of the Committee for Programme and Coordination
Other benchmark series:
- Charter of the United Nations (39 languages)
- Report of the Commission on the Status of Women (1947-1992)
- Report of UNICEF Executive Board (1946-1993)
- Statistical Yearbook (1948-2010)
- Report of the Committee on Contributions (1950-1993)
- United Nations Blue Book Series (1994-1996)
- United Nations Conference on International Organization documents (San Francisco Conference, 22 volumes)
