STATISTICS

Statistics is an inherent part of UNCTAD. Being the United Nations' focal point for the integrated treatment of trade and development and the interrelated issues in the areas of finance, technology, investment and sustainable development, UNCTAD compiles, validates and processes a wide range of data collected from national and international sources.

UNCTAD is committed to statistical excellence and making available high quality, independent statistics to inform research, debate and decision-making. The quality of the statistics compiled and disseminated by UNCTAD is supported by the UNCTAD Statistics Quality Assurance Framework.

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In focus

 

Statistics and SDGs

 

 

The purpose of the SDG Pulse is to highlight recent trends in sustainable development and UNCTAD’s work to support the 2030 Agenda and the SDGs.

Development and Globalization: Facts and Figures 2016

The UNCTAD Development and Globalization: Facts and Figures 2016 is dedicated to the Sustainable Development Goals that were adopted by the United Nations in September 2015 (2030 Agenda Declaration).

DGFF2016 pdf
DGFF2016 website
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DGFF 2016 website
http://stats.unctad.org/Dgff2016

 

Statistics capacity building

UNCTAD, in cooperation with other UN agencies, development banks and international organizations, assists national statistical organizations in developing countries with the collection, compilation and dissemination of their statistics. UNCTAD also pioneers and develops new statistical concepts and methodologies in cooperation with expert stakeholders and member states.

At all times, UNCTAD coordinates technical cooperation activities with donors and other organizations to avoid duplication of work and to encourage complementarity and synergies.

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Featured publications

Bulletins

These bulletins are designed to provide regular (monthly, quarterly, annual) overview of the evolution for a selection of topics and indicators.

Commodity price bulletin 
Commodity Price Bulletin
Trade in Services (Quarterly Bulletin) 
Trade in Services Bulletin
Nowcast bulletin 
Global Merchandise Trade Nowcast Bulletin

Other statistical publications

Key Statistics and Trends in Trade Policy: Trade tensions, implications for developing countries 2018
Key Statistics and Trends in International Trade: The Status of World Trade
Key statistics and trends in trade policy
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Key statistics and trends in international trade
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Inter-Agency initiatives

In cooperation with UN agencies and other partners organizations, UNCTAD works to coordinate a wide variety of capacity development initiatives, helping national statistical offices and systems to improve their data collection, and statistical production and dissemination, and also to develop the international statistical system.

COVID-19

"How Covid-19 is changing the world:a statistical perspective"

The report is the product of cooperation between 36 international organizations, under the aegis of the Committee of the Coordination of Statistical Activities (CCSA).

Gender and Trade

"Assessing the Impact of Trade Agreements on Gender Equality: Canada-EU Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement"

A new study by UNCTAD, UN Women, the European Union and ILO examines the impact of trade agreements on gender equality and women's economic empowerment.


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Explore UNCTAD statistics in our data centre, compare key indicators from countries all over the world in our Country Profiles and discover a selection of key facts in our infrographic library.

UNCTADStat Data Center 
UNCTADStat Country profiles 
UNCTADStat Infographics 

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Handbook of Statistics

The UNCTAD Handbook of Statistics provides users with access to internationally comparable sets of data, in addition to facilitating the work of the UNCTAD secretariat. The Handbook also presents a summary overview of the statistical time series available from UNCTADstat.

UNCTAD HBS2018 pdf
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eHandbook website
http://stats.unctad.org/handbook

Fact sheets

These fact sheets are designed to provide a short summary overview for a selection of topics or an introduction to a selection of indicators. The topic factsheets are typically taken from the Handbook of Statistics where accompanying tables can be found.

UNCTAD Handbook of statistics - Chapter 1 
International merchandise trade
UNCTAD Handbook of statistics - Chapter 2 
International trade in services
UNCTAD Handbook of statistics - Chapter 3 
Economic trends
UNCTAD Handbook of statistics - Chapter 4 
Population
UNCTAD Handbook of statistics - Chapter 5 
Maritime transport

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News
13 May 2020COVID-19 triggers marked decline in global trade, new data shows
The coronavirus pandemic led to a 3% drop in global trade values in the first quarter of 2020. The downturn is expected to accelerate in the second quarter, according to UNCTAD forecasts, which project a quarter-on-quarter decline of 27%.
20 December 2019West Africa makes headway towards harmonized trade-in-services statistics
The Central Bank of West African States congratulates West African partners as they share results of their second full survey on international trade in services.
Handbook of Statistics
10 December 2019Nowcast shows international trade and global economy cooling down
The UNCTAD Handbook of Statistics 2019 provides a wide range of statistics and indicators relevant to the analysis of international trade, investment, maritime transport and development.
Illicit financial flows
31 October 2019UNCTAD and partners make progress on measuring illicit financial flows
Quantifying the total value of illicit flows that are draining resources for development is a key step in tackling them.
02 October 2019Introducing the challenges of measuring Illicit Financial Flows to the International Statistical Community
At the World Statistics Congress in Kuala Lumpur, UNCTAD held a session entitled “Multinational profit shifting and illicit financial flows – can we measure them?”.
09 September 2019Regional workshop on merchandise trade statistics

​UNCTAD, the United Nations Statistics Division (UNSD), the World Trade Organisation (WTO), the African Union Commission (AUC), and the South African Revenue Service (SARS) hosted a regional workshop on International Merchandise Trade Statistics in Johannesburg, South Africa from 24 to 28 June 2019.

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