DESA Statistics News

August 2015

• Sustainable development through geospatial information

July 2015

• Lessons from Millennium Development Goals ‘springboard’ for future UN agenda

April 2015

• Unleashing the power of ‘where’
• Comments sought on technical report on post-2015 indicators

March 2015

• Securing better data for better lives

September 2014

• Visualize and compare country data via free UN app

August 2014

• MDG Momentum: UN launches 500 days of action to build a better world

July 2014

• UN Millennium Goals ‘scorecard’ spotlights successes, gaps and path towards ‘the future we want’

March 2014

• Securing reliable data for development

February 2014

• Managing the data revolution

January 2014

• Handbook on financial production, flows and stocks

July 2013

• MDGs are within reach, but stronger efforts are needed

May 2013

• Bringing gender to the forefront of statistics
• Supporting the present and the future

April 2013

• 1,000 days and counting: UN calls for accelerated action on the Millennium Development Goals

February 2013

• Getting the data right for global development
• Big data offers real time information

August 2012

• Geospatial information: Measuring sustainable development

July 2012

• Global partnership key to achieving MDGs by 2015

March 2012

• New ways to measure poverty from a gender perspective

February 2012

• Facing the challenge of measuring the unmeasurable
• Counting the world’s population

October 2011

• UN-backed meeting considers better use of geospatial technology

September 2011

• Reading the numbers for development

July 2011

• Report states progress but calls for increased support

April 2011

• Improving policies with better geospatial information

February 2011

• Statistics shaping social and economic development

October 2010

• Celebration of the First Ever World Statistics Day

June 2010

• UN report card on anti-poverty goals shows mixed picture of progress and obstacles

March 2010

• Statistical Commission meets amid Global Economic Recovery