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The Human Development Report has had a profound impact on development policies around the world. The 2010 Report continues the tradition of pushing the frontiers of development thinking. For the first...

The 2011 Human Development Report argues that the urgent global challenges of sustainability and equity must be addressed together – and identifies policies on the national and global level that could...

Over the 15 years since the country’s last National Human Development Report (NHDR) was published, Ethiopia has undergone significant economic and social changes and has recorded some of the highest...

The year 2015 was one of global action concerning the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) and other challenges. The 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development along with a set of new Sustainable...

The 2012 Energy Statistics Yearbook is the fifty-sixth issue in a series of annual compilations of internationally comparable statistics summarizing world energy trends. Annual data for 224 countries...

The 2012 Energy Balances contains energy balances for more than 200 countries and territories, showing production, trade, transformation and consumption (by sector) in energy units for all energy...

The 2012 Electricity Profiles contains electricity profiles for about 200 countries and territories, providing detailed information on production, trade and consumption of electricity, net installed...

This official record presents the decisions adopted by the High-level Committee on South-South Cooperation at its eighteenth session.

This publication presents statistics and analysis on the status of women and men in the world, highlighting the current situation and changes over time. It is the sixth in a series published since the...

This edition of the World Statistics Pocketbook is the thirty-third in a series of annual compilations of key statistical indicators prepared by the United Nations Statistics Division of the...

These guidelines have been developed to assist policymakers and national/local government officials, development practitioners, civil society organizations, research and financial institutions...

The 2014 International Trade Statistics Yearbook, Volume I provides an overview of the international trade merchandise trade in 2014 and detailed information on the trade performance for numerous...

In its decision 2013/101, the Commission on Population and Development decided that the special theme for its forty-eighth session would be “Realizing the future we want: integrating population issues...

This report focuses on trends in fertility over the past 20 years and key factors underlying these trends for countries at the extremes of fertility: 66 countries with more than 3.2 children per woman...

Since its early years, the United Nations has issued a series of international recommendations on population and housing censuses under the title “Principles and Recommendations for Population and...