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.
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