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.
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The upswing of merchandise trade reached almost the entire world. Total world exports US$17.7 trillion with an annual average growth rate of 10.4%.
In 2018/Q2, world trade in services continued growing in all main categories, year over year, though at a reduced pace. Q2 2018: 9.6% rise in global services exports.
World container port throughput stood at 752 million TEU in 2017, reflecting an additional 42.3 million TEU, an amount equivalent to volumes handled by Shanghai, the world’s busiest port in 2017. Global container port volumes up by 6 per cent in 2017, following two years of weak performance.
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).
UNCTAD is responsible for dealing with economic and sustainable development issues with a focus on trade, finance, investment and technology. Through these actions, UNCTAD contributes to progress on 52 specific Sustainable Development Goal targets, grouped under 10 of the 17 SDGs.
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.
These bulletins are designed to provide regular (monthly, quarterly, annual) overview of the evolution for a selection of topics and indicators.
UNCTAD assists national statistical agencies in developing and transition countries in their data collection and dissemination efforts. In cooperation with UN agencies, development banks and other international organisations, such as Eurostat, capacity-building initiatives are carried out in various areas.
There are several common ongoing projects in the area of data quality improvement, statistics dissemination and communication, education:
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.
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.
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.
Steve MacFeely, Head of Statistics and Information at UNCTAD, presented at the Max Planck Institute for Human Development, "Prerequisites to understanding Official Statistics: Some educational implications" in Berlin on 27 & 28 August, 2018.
Steve MacFeely, Head of Statistics and Information (UNCTAD) and Joerg Mayer, Senior Economic Affairs Officer (UNCTAD), were both discussants at the launch of two new UNIDO reports on 28 June, 2018, the Industrial Development Report 2018 and the Structural Change for Inclusive and Sustainable Industrial Development.
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