In a ceremony held on 29 July 2010, the Secretary General presented the United Nations Statistics Division with its third UN21 Award. This latest award recognized UNdata as the winner in the category "Improvements in Client Services". UNdata is an innovative service which enables free and easy access to UN statistical databases to users of statistical information around the world. UNdata currently has 32 databases with 60 million records. Plans are underway to include country databases into this searchable, metadata-enabled database environment.
The UN 21 Awards were established in 1996 to recognize outstanding initiatives by United Nations individual staff members or teams to improve the delivery of the Organization’s programmes and services. The Awards serve to highlight innovations across the Organization which have a multiplier effect and ensure sustainable results.