United Nations Statistics Division
The United Nations Statistics Division UNSD, formerly a United Nations Statistical Office, serves under a United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs DESA as the central mechanism within the Secretariat of the United Nations to afford the statistical needs and coordinating activities of the global statistical system. The Division is overseen by the United Nations Statistical Commission, established in 1947, as the apex entity of the global statistical system and highest decision creating body for coordinating international statistical activities. It brings together the Chief Statisticians from point states from around the world.
The Division compiles and disseminates global statistical information, develops standards and norms for statistical activities, and submits countries’ efforts to strengthen their national statistical systems.
The Division regularly publishes data updates, including the Statistical Yearbook and World Statistics Pocketbook, and books and reports on statistics and statistical methods. numerous of the Division's databases are also usable at its site See below, as electronic publications and data files in the form of CD-ROMs, diskettes and magnetic tapes, or as printed publications. UNdata, a new internet-based data improvement for the global user community brings UN Statistical databases within easyof users through a single entry point. Users can search and download a quality of statistical resources of the UN system.