National Accounts

The National Accounts Section of the United Nations Statistics Division focuses its activities on the following areas:

Methodology

Develops and updates international standards of methodology and concepts of national accounts. Also develops handbooks and training materials on SNA and provides technical assistance to developing countries in implementation of the 1993 SNA.

Data

Maintains the National Accounts Main Aggregates Database which contains a complete and consistent set of time series from 1970 onwards of main national accounts aggregates and derived analytical indicators and ratios for more than 200 countries and territories.

Collects official national accounts statistics from countries and publishes them in the National Accounts Statistics: Main Aggregates and Detailed Tables.

Prepares estimates to complement official national accounts statistics from countries to obtain consistent and complete time series and publishes them in National Accounts Statistics: Analysis of Main Aggregates.

ISWGNA

Serves as the secretariat of the Intersecretariat Working Group on National Accounts (ISWGNA) comprising United Nations Statistics Division, International Monetary Fund, World Bank, Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development, Statistical Office of the European Communities and the United Nations regional commissions. ISWGNA coordinates implementation and updationg of the 1993 System of National Accounts.