The Division regularly publishes data updates, including the Statistical Yearbook and World Statistics Pocketbook, and books and reports on statistics and statistical methods. Many of the Division's databases are also available on this site, as electronic publications and data files in the form of CD-ROMs, diskettes and magnetic tapes, or as printed publications.

The Statistics Division's main functions are:

the collection, processing and dissemination of statistical information;

the standardization of statistical methods, classifications and definitions;

the technical cooperation programme; and

the coordination of international statistical programmes and activities.   More detail...