Driving change with quality statistics and data for everyone
17 October 2025 - Every five years, World Statistics Day (WSD) is observed on 20 October. Since it was first celebrated in 2010, the Day provides an opportunity to recognize the importance of official statistics and to highlight the contributions of national and international statistical systems.
What the data tell us about equality between women and men
14 October 2025 - The newly released Gender Snapshot 2025 paints a nuanced picture of progress towards gender equality. On one hand, there have been historic gains: girls are more likely to complete school than ever before, and maternal mortality fell by nearly 40 per cent between 2000 and 2023. Women’s participation in climate negotiations has doubled. In the past five years alone, 99 positive legal reforms have been enacted to dismantle discrimination.
UN Forum showcases power of gender data to drive change for all
1 October 2025 - The 10th Global Forum on Gender Statistics opened today in Tbilisi, Georgia, under the theme “Driving Change with Gender Statistics: A Path to Equality”.
Gender equality: UN Women calls for political will and accelerated global action
15 September 2025 - More than 351 million women and girls could still be living in extreme poverty by the end of the decade if current trends persist.
Closing the gender digital divide could boost global GDP by $1.5 trillion and lift 30 million women from poverty
15 September - The newly released Gender Snapshot 2025 report by UN Women and the UN Department of Economic and Social Affairs (UN DESA) shows that the world is at a crossroads. With investments, gender equality is within reach. Girls are now more likely to complete school than ever before, and maternal mortality declined by nearly 40 per cent between 2000 and 2023.
New data to reveal progress and gaps in gender equality
12 September - On 15 September 2025, UN Women and UN DESA will launch the Progress on the Sustainable Development Goals: The Gender Snapshot 2025, the latest edition in an annual series. Covering all 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), the report spotlights the latest data and evidence on gender equality, tracking trends and revealing progress and gaps.
7 things you should know about accelerating social progress
3 September - As the world prepares for the Second World Summit for Social Development in November in Qatar, momentum is building to accelerate social progress.
The Sustainable Development Goals have improved millions of lives over the past decade, but progress remains insufficient, UN report finds
14 July 2025 - A decade after the adoption of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, the United Nations released today the 10th edition of its annual progress report...
4 things you should know about the latest data on SDG progress
11 July 2025 - On 14-23 July, the global community is coming together at the High-level Political Forum on Sustainable Development (HLPF) to assess the world’s progress in achieving the 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).
Making migrants count: experts convene in Malmö to close gaps in migration data
16 June 2025 - Migration experts, policymakers, statisticians, and data scientists from around the world are convening in Malmö, Sweden, for the Fourth International Forum on Migration Statistics (IFMS) from 16 to 18 June.