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WORLD POP PROSP 2017 V2 DEM PROFIL

World Population Prospects 2017 - Volume II: Demographic Profiles

8 Sep 2021
The United Nations population estimates and projections form a comprehensive set of demographic data to assess population trends at the global, regional and national levels. The 2017 Revision of World Population Prospects represents the latest global set of demographic estimates and projections ...
WORLD POP PROSP 2017 V1 COMPR TABL

World Population Prospects 2017 - Volume I: Comprehensive Tables

8 Sep 2021
The United Nations population estimates and projections form a comprehensive set of demographic data to assess population trends at the global, regional and national levels. The 2017 Revision of World Population Prospects represents the latest global set of demographic estimates and projections ...
WORLD POPULATION POLICIES 2021

World Population Policies 2021

Policies Related to Fertility

Series:
Statistical papers - United Nations (Ser. A), Population and vital statistics report
6 Mar 2023
The 2021 edition of the World Population Policies provides a brief overview of global fertility levels and trends since the early 1960s and explores government’s views and policies related to fertility. The analysis of views and policies draws on data gathered through 2019 and available in the Wo...
INTERNAT MIGRATION 2020 HIGHLIGHTS

International Migration 2020: Highlights

3 Feb 2021
The report presents key facts and messages regarding international migration globally and by region during 2000-2020, based on the 2020 revision of the international migrant stock data set, which provides updated estimates of numbers of persons living outside their country of birth, classified by...
UN DEMOGRAPH YRBK 2019 V70

United Nations Demographic Yearbook 2019

Series:
Demographic Yearbook (Ser. R)
19 Jan 2021
The Demographic Yearbook is an international compendium of national demographic statistics provided by national statistical authorities to the Statistics Division of the United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs. The 2019 edition represents the seventieth issue in a series publishe...
WORLD FAMILY PLANNING 2020

World Family Planning 2020: Highlights

Accelerating Action to Ensure Universal Access to Family Planning

27 Nov 2020
Expanding access to contraception is essential for achieving universal access to reproductive health-care services, as called for in the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development. This Highlights presents estimates of contraceptive use and needs from 1990 to 2020, and projections to 2030 for 196 co...
WORLD POP AGEING 2020 HIGHLIGHTS

World Population Ageing 2020: Highlights

Living Arrangements of Older Persons

14 Dec 2020
Drawing on the Household Living Arrangements of Older Persons 2019 Dataset, the World Population Ageing 2020 Highlights will document key patterns and trends of the household living arrangements of older persons around the world. These levels or trends will be described using indicators such as t...
INTL MIGRATION RPT 2019

International Migration Report 2019

11 Dec 2020
Migration has major impacts on both the people and the places involved. When supported by appropriate policies, migration can contribute to inclusive and sustainable development in both origin and destination countries, while also benefiting migrants and their families. The International Migratio...
INTL MIGRATION RPT 2019 HIGHLIGHTS

International Migration Report 2019: Highlights

11 Dec 2020
Migration has major impacts on both the people and the places involved. When supported by appropriate policies, migration can contribute to inclusive and sustainable development in both origin and destination countries, while also benefiting migrants and their families. The International Migratio...
WORLD POPULAT POLICIES 2019 HIGHLI

World Population Policies 2019: Highlights

9 Apr 2020
The 2019 edition of the World Population Policies: Highlights provides a summary of a selected number of Government policies and programmes related to international migration. It provides an overview of policies to govern regular migration and to address irregular migration, and reviews an array ...
WORLD POPULAT POLICIES 2019

World Population Policies 2019

9 Apr 2020
The 2019 edition of the World Population Policies report, a report published biennially since 2003, focuses on Government policies and programmes on international migration. It provides an overview of policies to govern regular migration and to address irregular migration, and reviews an array of...
SDG INDICATOR 10.7.2 DATA BOOKLET

SDG indicator 10.7.2: Data Booklet

Number of Countries with Migration Policies to Facilitate Orderly, Safe, Regular and Responsible Migration and Mobility of People

31 Oct 2020
Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) indicator 10.7.2 was developed by the co-custodians United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs (UN DESA) and the International Organization for Migration (IOM) to inform the global review of SDG target 10.7. The indicator aims to describe the state...
WORLD MORTALITY 2019

World Mortality 2019

11 Dec 2020
The World Mortality 2019, prepared by the Population Division of the Department of Economic and Social Affairs of the United Nations Secretariat, assesses changes in mortality risks at the global, regional and country levels, focusing in particular on the initial implementation period of the Prog...
WORLD MORTALITY RPT 2017 HIGHL

World Mortality Report 2017: Highlights

21 Jan 2020
This publication presents the levels and trends in mortality from 1970 to 2015 drawn from the World Population Prospects. It highlights variations among countries in a number of mortality indicators: annual deaths; crude death rates; life expectancy at birth by sex; infant mortality; under-five m...
WORLD MORTALITY 2019 DATA BOOKLET

World Mortality 2019: Data Booklet

27 Dec 2019
The data booklet presents key mortality indicators at the national, regional, and global level during 1950-2030. It highlights variations among countries in a number of mortality indicators: annual deaths; crude death rates; life expectancy at birth by sex; infant mortality; under-five mortality;...
CONTRACEPTIVE USE METHOD 2019 BKLT

Contraceptive Use by Method 2019

Data Booklet

27 Dec 2019
This data booklet highlights estimates of the prevalence of individual contraceptive methods based on the World Contraceptive Use 2019 (which draws from 1,247 surveys for 195 countries or areas of the world) and additional tabulations obtained from microdata sets and survey reports. The estimates...
WORLD POP PROSP 2019 V2 DEM PROFIL

World Population Prospects 2019 - Volume II: Demographic Profiles

28 Jan 2020
The United Nations population estimates and projections form a comprehensive set of demographic data to assess population trends at the global, regional and national levels. The 2019 revision of the World Population Prospects is the twenty-sixth edition of the official United Nations population e...
WORLD POP PROSP 2019 V1 COMPR TABL

World Population Prospects 2019 - Volume I: Comprehensive Tables

12 Nov 2019
The United Nations population estimates and projections form a comprehensive set of demographic data to assess population trends at the global, regional and national levels. The 2019 revision of the World Population Prospects is the twenty-sixth edition of the official United Nations population e...
WORLD POPULAT AGEING 2019

World Population Ageing 2019

16 Aug 2021
Drawing on the 2019 revision of World Population Prospects, the World Population Ageing 2019 (Highlights) documents global and regional trends in population ageing, including consideration of the implications of these trends for the implementation of the 2030 Agenda. The report also presents vari...
WORLD POPUL AGEING 2019 HIGHLIGHTS

World Population Ageing 2019 Highlights

4 Dec 2019
Drawing on the 2019 revision of World Population Prospects, the World Population Ageing 2019 (Highlights) document global and regional trends in population ageing, including consideration of the implications of these trends for the implementation of the 2030 Agenda. The report also presents vario...
INTL MIGRATION 2019 WALL CHART

International Migration 2019 Wall Chart

20 Nov 2019
International Migration 2019 wall chart provides up-to-date information on global estimates of the number of international migrants for all countries and areas of the world, disaggregated by age, sex, country of origin and country of destination. This wall chart is based on the latest data on int...
WORLD MORTALITY 2019 HIGHLIGHTS

World Mortality 2019 Highlights

27 Nov 2020
This report provides an overview of the estimated and projected trends in mortality at the world level, for development groups and major areas; the analysis also focuses on country and regional data for selected mortality indicators. In addition to examining the summary indicator of life expectan...
FAM PLANNING 2030 AGENDA SUST DEV

Family Planning and the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development (Data Booklet)

20 Sep 2019
This booklet is based on the Estimates and Projections of Family Planning Indicators 2019, which includes estimates at the global, regional and country level of contraceptive prevalence, unmet need for family planning and SDG indicator 3.7.1 “Proportion of women who have their need for family pla...
WORLD FERTILITY & FAMILY HIGH 2020

World Fertility and Family Planning 2020: Highlights

11 Dec 2020
The main contents are key findings and messages regarding the relationship between contraceptive use and fertility, for 195 countries or areas of the world. These highlights will draw mainly from World Population Prospects 2019, and model-based estimates and projections of family planning indicat...
WORLD POP PROSPECTS 2019 DATA BKLT

World Population Prospects 2019: Data Booklet

21 Jun 2019
This publication presents key population indicators at the global and regional levels and highlights current and future patterns and trends of fertility, mortality and international migration. Data presented in this booklet are based on the 2019 Revision of the World Population Prospects, the lat...
WORLD POP PROSPECTS 2019 HIGHLIGHT

World Population Prospects 2019: Highlights

20 Jun 2019
The United Nations population estimates and projections form a comprehensive set of demographic data to assess population trends at the global, regional and national levels. They are used in the calculation of many of the key development indicators commonly used by the United Nations system, incl...
WORLD DEMOGRAPHIC TRENDS 2018

World Demographic Trends 2018

11 Jul 2019
The present report, prepared in accordance with resolution 1996/2 of the ECOSOC, provides an overview of demographic trends for the world, its geographic regions and selected countries, and for various development and income groups. It focuses on major demographic changes during recent decades, a...
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The World's Cities in 2018

Data Booklet

3 Dec 2018
This data booklet highlights current and future trajectories of populations in cities around the globe, drawing on the population estimates and projections published in World Urbanization Prospects: The 2018 Revision.
SUSTAINABLE CITIES HUMAN MOBILITY

Sustainable Cities, Human Mobility and International Migration

A Concise Report

31 Aug 2018
This report reviews the current status of demographic evidence and its capacity to support monitoring of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). It focuses on the core systems generating demographic data and describes how the “data revolution” has already improved their performance and the pote...
INTL MIGRATION RPT 2017

International Migration Report 2017

10 Apr 2018
This report presents information on levels and trends in international migration for regions, sub-regions and countries of the world, and on the ratification status of migration-related international instruments. It also contains a summary of the General Assembly’s high-level plenary meeting on a...