The United Nations Commodity Trade Statistics Database (UN Comtrade) stores more than 1 billion trade data records from 1962. Over 140 reporter countries provide the United Nations Statistics Division with their annual international trade statistics detailed by commodities and partner countries. These data are subsequently transformed into the United Nations Statistics Division standard format with consistent coding and valuation using the UN/OECD CoprA internal processing system.

The Energy Statistics Database contains comprehensive energy statistics on the production, trade, conversion and final consumption of primary and secondary; conventional and non-conventional; and new and renewable sources of energy. The Energy Statistics dataset, covering the period from 1990 on, is available at UNdata. For data prior to 1990, please refer to http://unstats.un.org/unsd/energy/edbase.htm.

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The Environment Statistics Database contains selected water and waste statistics by country. Statistics on water and waste are based on official statistics supplied by national statistical offices and/or ministries of environment (or equivalent institutions) in countries in response to the biennial UNSD/UNEP Questionnaire on Environment Statistics. They were complemented by data on EU and OECD member and partner countries from OECD and Eurostat. Environment statistics is still in an early stage of development in many countries, and data are often sparse. The statistics selected here are those of relatively good quality and geographic coverage. The online database currently covers the years 1990, 1995 to 2007. For information on definitions, data quality and other important metadata, please check UNSD Environmental Indicator tables.

FAOSTAT provides access to over 3 million time-series and cross sectional data relating to food and agriculture. FAOSTAT contains data for 200 countries and more than 200 primary products and inputs in its core data set. The national version of FAOSTAT, CountrySTAT, is being implemented in about 20 countries and three regions. It offers a two-way bridge amongst sub-national, national, regional and international statistics on food and agriculture.

Gender Info 2007 is a global database of gender statistics and indicators on a wide range of policy areas, including: population, families, health, education, work, and political participation. It can be used by governments, international organizations, advocacy groups, researchers and others in need of statistics for planning, analysis, advocacy and awareness-raising. Users will find in Gender Info an easy-to-use tool to shed light on gender issues through customizable tables, graphs and maps. It is an initiative of the United Nations Statistics Division, produced in collaboration with the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) and the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA).

The Development Indicators dataset is comprised of a wide range of important statistics and metadata drawn from the United Nations, UN agencies and other international sources. It covers key economic, social, financial and development topics, broadly based on the structure of the UN Statistical Yearbook (SYB). Series are grouped under the headings agriculture, forestry and fishing, balance of payments, culture and communication, development assistance, education, environment, financial statistics, gender, international finance, international merchandise trade, international tourism and transport, labour force, manufacturing, national accounts and industrial production, nutrition, population, wages and prices.

The Greenhouse Gas (GHG) Inventory Data contains the most recently submitted information, covering the period from 1990 to the latest available year, to the extent the data have been provided. The GHG data contain information on anthropogenic emissions by sources and removals by sinks of the six principal GHGs (carbon dioxide (CO2), methane (CH4), nitrous oxide (N2O), hydrofluorocarbons (HFCs), perfluorocarbons (PFCs), and sulphur hexafluoride (SF6)) that are not controlled by the Montreal Protocol.

The GHG emission inventories are developed by the Parties to the Convention using comparable methodologies agreed upon by the Conference of Parties. All the Parties base their GHG emission inventories on the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) Revised Guidelines for National Greenhouse Gas Inventories (1996), IPCC Good Practice Guidance and Uncertainty Management in National Greenhouse Gas Inventories (2000) and IPCC Good Practice Guidance on Land Use, Land-use Change and Forestry (2003).

The Human Development Report is a reliable source and an alternative perspective on critical issues for human development worldwide. Featuring the Human Development Index, every report presents agenda-setting data and analysis and calls international attention to issues and policy options that put people at the center of strategies to meet the challenges of development today - economic, social, political, and cultural.

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The International Labour Organization provides UNdata with 2 products: 1. LABORSTA, which has data and metadata on labour statistics for over 200 countries or territories. 2. Key Indicators of the Labour Market (KILM), which contains a core set of 20 labour market indicators that cover various facets of decent work deficits.

The Indicators on Women and Men provides the latest statistics and indicators on women and men in six specific fields of concern: population, women and men in families, health, education, work and political decision making. The statistics and indicators refer to the latest year for which sex-disaggregated data are available. The data have been compiled from official national sources as well as international sources. To view historical time-series and to access additional indicators, explore our database: GENDER Info 2007.

INDSTAT4-Rev.3 contains time series data on five selected data items for the period covering 2003 - 2007. The data are arranged at the 3- and 4-digit level of ISIC (Revision 3) pertaining to the manufacturing sector, which comprises 151 manufacturing categories.

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The United Nations Industrial Commodity Statistics Database provides annual statistics on the production of major industrial commodities by country. Data are provided in terms of physical quantities as well as monetary value. The online database covers the years 1995 to 2006. Additional historical data is available on request, based on a different product list, for the years 1950-2003.

Data represent the number of homicides per 100,000 population as captured by different sources of national and international administrative statistics.

The Key Global Indicators database (also known as the UN Common Database) is comprised of a wide range of statistics and metadata drawn from the United Nations, UN agencies and other international sources. It covers key economic, social, financial and development topics.

The LABORSTA is an International Labour Office database operated by the ILO Department of Statistics which has data and metadata on labour statistics for over 200 countries or territories. The databases cover household income and expenditure statistics, economically active population, employment, unemployment, employment (or labour force) by detailed occupational group and sex, obtained from population censuses or labour force surveys, comparable employment and unemployment estimates, public sector employment, hours of work, wages, labour cost, consumer prices, October inquiry results, occupational injuries and strikes and lockouts (data since 1969), statistical sources and methods.

The Millennium Development Goals Database presents official data for more than 60 indicators to measure progress towards the Millennium Development Goals. The data and analyses are the product of the work of the Inter-agency and Expert Group (IAEG), coordinated by the United Nations Statistics Division.

The Economic Statistics Branch of the United Nations Statistics Division (UNSD) maintains and annually updates the National Accounts Main Aggregates database. It consists of a complete and consistent set of time series, from 1970 onwards, of the main National Accounts aggregates of all UN Members States and other territories in the world for which National Accounts information is available. Its contents are based on the official data reported to UNSD through the annual National Accounts Questionnaire, supplemented with data estimates for any years and countries with incomplete or inconsistent information.

Estimates are done when no official data are available. The final aggregates are provided in national currency and in United States dollars. The main aggregates in the database include Gross Domestic Product (GDP) by type of expenditure and Gross Value Added by kind of economic activity, both at current and at constant market prices. It also contains Gross National Income (GNI) at current prices and analytical indicators and ratios that reflect economic structure and trends of countries and areas. These analytical indicators are: annual per capita GDP and GNI (calculated using actual population or annual population estimates from the UN Population Division); annual growth rates of GDP; annual shares in total GDP and total Gross Value added of their respective components; and price trends as defined by the implicit price deflators of GDP.

The National Accounts Main Aggregates database is the product of a global cooperation effort between UNSD, international statistical agencies, and the national statistical services of more than 200 countries and territories. It has been prepared in response to a request by the Statistical Commission during its first session in 1947, and is in agreement with the resolution 48/223 C of the UN General Assembly, which mandates the Committee on Contributions to prepare the Scale of Assessment for UN Member States on the basis of the most recent reliable and verifiable available data on national accounts of as many countries and areas as possible, and that these data be published and disseminated regularly.

The database contains detailed official national accounts statistics in national currencies as provided by the National Statistical Offices. Data is available for most of the countries or areas of the world. For the majority of countries data is available form 1970 up to the year t-1. However, the database contains data for some counties as of 1945. It is a valuable source of information on the economies of the world. The national accounts statistics includes aggregates such as gross domestic product, national income, saving, household and government consumption expenditure including detailed consumption classes of products, gross capital formation, exports and imports, value added by economic activities and relations among product, income, final consumption, saving, gross capital formation and net lending. In addition, it contains detailed accounts for institutional sectors including the rest of the world, from production account, generation of income account, allocation of primary income account, secondary distribution of income account, use of disposable income account, capital account to financial account if they are complied by countries.

The statistics for each country or area are presented according to the uniform table headings and classifications as recommended in the United Nations System of National Accounts (SNA). A summary of the SNA conceptual framework, classifications and definitions are included in the yearly publication “National Accounts Statistics, Main Aggregates and Detailed Tables”. A pdf-version of the 2006 yearbook with detailed national accounts statistics of 185 countries or areas for the years 1995 to 2006 can be purchased online: http://unstats.un.org/unsd/nationalaccount/nasp1.htm Former editions of the yearbook (as pdf- and print-version) are also available through the sales section. Requests for customized data downloads can be addressed to SNA@un.org.

DEFINITIONS

OFFICIAL DEVELOPMENT ASSISTANCE (ODA)

Grants or loans to countries and territories on the DAC List of ODA Recipients (developing countries) and to multilateral agencies which are: (a) undertaken by the official sector; (b) with promotion of economic development and welfare as the main objective; (c) at concessional financial terms (if a loan, having a grant element of at least 25 per cent). In addition to financial flows, technical co-operation is included in aid. Grants, loans and credits for military purposes are excluded. Transfer payments to private individuals (e.g. pensions, reparations or insurance payouts) are in general not counted.

GRANT ELEMENT
Reflects the financial terms of a commitment: interest rate, maturity and grace period (interval to first repayment of capital). It measures the concessionality of a loan, expressed as the percentage by which the present value of the expected stream of repayments falls short of the repayments that would have been generated at a given reference rate of interest. The reference rate is 10% in DAC statistics. This rate was selected as a proxy for the marginal efficiency of the domestic investment, i.e. as an indication of the opportunity cost to the donor of making the funds available. Thus, the grant element is nil for a loan carrying an interest rate of 10 percent; it is 100 per cent for a grant; and it lies between these two limits for a soft loan. If the face value of a loan is multiplied by its grant element, the result is referred to as the grant equivalent of that loan. (cf. Concessionality Level) (Note: the grant element concept is not applied to the market-based lending operations of the multilateral development banks.)

ODA RECEIPTS
Total ODA receipts to recipient countries includes bilateral ODA provided directly by a donor country and multilateral ODA, channeled via an international organisation active in development (e.g. World Bank, UNDP). In tables showing total receipts of recipient countries, the outflows of multilateral agencies to those countries is shown, not the contributions which the agencies received from donors

MULTILATERAL OUTFLOWS
Aid activities financed from multilateral development institutions' regular budgets. Projects executed by multilateral organizations on behalf of donor countries are classified as bilateral flows, since it is the donor country that effectively controls the use of the funds.

DEBT REORGANISATION
(also Restructuring) Any action officially agreed between creditor and debtor that alters the terms previously established for repayment. This may include forgiveness (extinction of the loan), or rescheduling which can be implemented either by revising the repayment schedule or extending a new refinancing loan.

The State of the World’s Children assesses the state of child survival and primary health care for mothers, newborns and children today.

The UNESCO Institute for Statistics (UIS) provides UNdata with a subset of the more than 1,000 indicators which may be found in the UIS Data Centre.

The UIS Data Centre contains indicators and raw data on education, literacy, science, culture and communication. The UIS collects these data from more than 200 countries and international organizations.

The UIS is the primary data source of education, literacy and science data for leading publications and databases, such as:

• Education For All Global Monitoring Report
• World Development Indicators
• Human Development Report
• State of the World’s Children and many others.

The Data Centre provides free access to:

• The Institute’s databases and survey instruments
• Country profiles
• ools to build your own statistical tables
• Related documentation and metadata.

The UNGASS set of indicators is the result of the unanimous adoption of the Declaration of Commitment on HIV/AIDS by all UN member states in 2001 to monitor the global response to the epidemic. The data consists of 25 indicators (of which 10 have been selected for dissemination through UNdata), reported biennially by participating countries on their national response to HIV/AIDS. Data are reported for 2004, 2006, and 2008 time-series and are published as part of the Global Report on HIV/AIDS.

UNHCR seeks to contribute to informed decision-making and public debate by providing accurate, relevant and up-to-date statistics. As such, the Statistical Online Population Database (LINK: http://www.unhcr.org/statistics/populationdatabase) provides data and trends on the "Population of concern to UNHCR": refugees, asylum-seekers, returned refugees, internally displaced persons (IDPs) protected/assisted by UNHCR, returned IDPs, stateless persons, and others of concern to UNHCR, in more than 150 countries.

Detailed information for some population categories going back to 1951, the year UNHCR was created, is available in UNHCR's Statistical Online Population Database. The online database brings together in a single electronic platform standardized data on UNHCR's population of concern at country, regional, and global levels. The page Frequently Requested Statistics is a collection of some of the most frequently requested statistics from the UNHCR Statistical Online Population Database.

The United Nations Demographic Yearbook collects, compiles and disseminates official statistics on a wide range of topics. Data have been collected from national statistical authorities since 1948 through a set of questionnaires dispatched annually by the United Nations Statistics Division to over 230 national statistical offices. The Demographic Yearbook disseminates statistics on population size and composition, births, deaths, marriage and divorce on an annual basis. Demographic Yearbook special topics issues cover a wide range of additional topics including economic activity, educational attainment, household characteristics, housing, ethnicity and language, among others.

World Health Statistics 2008 presents the most recent health statistics for WHO’s 193 Member States.

The United Nations World Population Prospects: The 2008 Revision contains estimates since 1950 and projections until 2050 for every country in the world, including estimates and projections of 28 demographic indicators such as birth rates, deaths rates, infant mortality rates and life expectancy.

Citation:
United Nations, Department of Economic and Social Affairs, Population Division, World Population Prospects: The 2008 Revision, New York, 2009 (advanced Excel tables).

The World Statistics Pocketbook is an authoritative and comprehensive compilation of key statistical indicators in convenient country profile format. The 2008 edition presents available data for 216 countries and areas for 55 indicators, generally for the years 2000, 2005 and 2007. The country profiles in UNdata have been taken from the World Statistics Pocketbook.

ITU's World Telecommunication/ICT Indicators Database is the main source of global, and internationally comparable, telecommunication/ICT statistics. It includes time series for more than 100 indicators and around 200 economies. The data are collected directly from telecommunication regulatory agencies and/or ministries and national statistical offices by means of an annual questionnaire, and subsequently verified, harmonized and complemented by ITU.

The data are disseminated online, via CD Rom and through numerous ITU publications, including the Yearbook of Statistics, the Measuring the Information Society Report, the World Telecommunication/ICT Development Report and regional reports. The statistics are used to track and benchmark the Information Society, to monitor the digital divide and to identify market potential and investment opportunities. They are an indispensable tool for policy makers in the area of ICT for development.

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The World Tourism Organization's Compendium of Tourism Statistics and Yearbook of Tourism Statistics provide comprehensive information on international tourism worldwide and offer a selection of the latest available statistics on "arrivals of non-resident tourists/visitors" and "tourism expenditure".

Terms and definitions used in the United Nations Statistics Division demographic statistics.

The Glossary of Environment Statistics was published by United Nations Statistics Division in 1997 and contains approximately 1200 environmental terms. It is a quick reference tool for terms and definitions relevant to environmental data production and use. An updated web version (from 2001) of the Glossary is available. A revised version is currently being prepared.

The National Accounts Main Aggregates Glossary contains terms and definitions used in the System of National Accounts. This glossary uses descriptions of the OECD glossary of statistical terms, the Glossary of the System of National Accounts 1993 and the UN classifications registry.

The SDMX Metadata Common Vocabulary contains concepts and related definitions to which terminology used in structural and reference metadata of international organisations and national data producing agencies may be mapped. The content includes a selected range of metadata concepts: (1) General metadata concepts, mostly derived from ISO, UNECE and UN documents, useful for providing a general context to metadata management; (2) Metadata terms describing statistical methodologies (frequency, reference period, data collection, source, adjustment, etc.); (3) Metadata for assessing quality (accuracy, timeliness, etc.), and (4) Terms referring specifically to data and metadata exchange (terminology from the SDMX information model and from existing data structure definitions, etc.).

The System of National Accounts 1993 Glossary shows definitions used in national accounts as well as references to where they are found in the 1993 System of National Accounts.

Terms and definitions used in the World Population Prospects: The 2006 Revision.