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The Economic Report on Africa (ERA) reviews the performance of the region's economy during the past year and considers the prospects for the short and medium term. With a special focus on poverty...

The Demographic Yearbook is a comprehensive collection of international demographic statistics. This definitive source of demographic and population statistics includes data on about 229 countries, or...

Demographers, economists, public health workers and sociologists have found this Yearbook a definitive source of demographic and population statistics. About 250 countries and regions are represented...

Africa was the only developing region to accelerate its growth in a turbulent year that saw the synchronized slowdown of all major economies and heightened uncertainty about prospects for the world’s...

This Report examines and provides analysis on the critical elements of effectively fostering industrialisation and hence structural transformation based on extensive review of experience with...

The Demographic Yearbook is an international source of statistics providing basic statistical data for over 200 countries or areas. It meets the needs of demographers, economists, public-health...

Through cooperation with the national statistical offices, official demographic statistics are compiled in this yearbook, as available, for more than 230 countries and areas of the world. This latest...

Demographic Yearbook 2011 is the the sixty-second in a series published since 1948. Through the cooperation with the National Statistical Offices, official demographic statistics are compiled in...

Demographic Yearbook 2012 is the the sixty-third in a series published since 1948. Through the cooperation with the National Statistical Offices, official demographic statistics are compiled in...

Demographic Yearbook 2013 is the the sixty-fourth in a series published since 1948. Through the cooperation with the National Statistical Offices, official demographic statistics are compiled in...

The Demographic Yearbook is an international source of statistics that contains basic statistical data for over 200 countries or areas to meet the needs of demographers, economists, public-health...

This is the official report submitted to the General Assembly by the Ad Hoc Committee on the Indian Ocean on its formal session (451st meeting) held on 26 July 2005 at United Nations Headquarters.

This edition of the United Nations Demographic Yearbook (DYB-CD) supplements the 51st edition of the Demographic Yearbook (DYB). It presents natality statistics for the period 1980-1998 in twenty...

This is the official report submitted to the General Assembly of the Ad Hoc Committee on the Indian Ocean on its formal session (453rd meeting) held on 24 July 2009 at United Nations Headquarters.

In its resolution 64/23, the General Assembly, having taken note of the report of the Ad Hoc Committee on the Indian Ocean (A/64/29), requested the Chair of the Committee to continue his informal...

Many African economies are still characterized by a heavy reliance on the primary sector, high vulnerability to external shocks, jobless growth and slow progress towards social development. It is...