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United Nations Statistical Yearbook - Fifty-second Issue
Introduction
| The United Nations Statistical
Yearbook is an annual compilation of a wide range of international
economic, social and environmental statistics for over 200 countries
and areas of the world, compiled from sources including UN agencies
and other international, national and specialized organizations.
The fifty-second issue contains data available to the Statistics
Division as of June 2008 and presents them in 68 tables on topics
such as: agriculture; balance of payments; communication; development
assistance; education; energy; environment; finance; gender; industrial
production; international merchandise trade; international tourism;
labour force; manufacturing; national accounts; nutrition; population;
prices; research and development; and wages. The number
of years of data shown in the tables varies from one to ten, with
the ten-year tables covering 1996 to 2005 or 1997 to 2006. Accompanying
the tables are technical notes providing brief descriptions of
major statistical concepts, definitions and classifications. |
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