The United Nations Statistics Division, in collaboration with the United Nations Committee of Experts on Business and Trade Statistics (UNCEBTS), the Wiesbaden Group on Business Registers, and the United Nations Economic Commission for Europe, is hosting an online platform for receiving responses for the Country Progress Report (CPR) on Statistical Business Registers.
2026 Country Progress Report
The United Nations Economic Commission for Europe is planning to organize a biennial meeting of the Group of Experts on Business Registers on 21 - 23 September 2026 in Geneva, Switzerland. Information on the meeting, including the registration link, is available on the UNECE website at:
A special session will be organized to present the outcomes of the 2026 Country Progress Reports on SBRs. This session will highlight the progress made and the challenges encountered by countries in working with their business registers. All countries are encouraged to complete the Country Progress Report before 24 August 2026.
If your office has already registered for the meeting, you should have received a token from the meeting organizers, which serves as a password for you to complete the Country Progress Report online. In this case, please proceed with the following link:
If your office cannot participate in the meeting, but would like to submit Country Progress Report, please contact the meeting organizers.
All the submitted responses of the 2026 Country Progress Report will be published after the meeting, in line with past practice.
Past CPR Responses
UNSD is working on compiling the past CPR responses and organizing them in a user-friendly manner. Below is a list of the available CPR responses, organized by the year and event.
- 2024 CPR from the 2024 Meeting of the Group of Experts on Business Registers, 16 - 18 October 2024 Note: You will need to select the year of 2024 in the new window.
- 2023 CPR from the 28th meeting of the Wiesbaden Group on Business Registers, The Hague, the Netherlands, 2 - 6 October 2023 Note: You will need to select the year of 2023 in the new window.
A Global Assessment of Statistical Business Registers based on the CPR questionnaire and the self-assessment questionnaire of the Manual on the Maturity Model for Statistical Business Registers was conducted in 2025. The full report is available at:
The dedicated website of the 2025 global assessment results:
Expert Groups on Statistical Business Registers
As part of the established practice on international coordination, there are two separate groups that usually organize meetings on the development of business registers in alternative years:
Topics
Events and Workshops
- Global Assessment on Statistical Business Registers 2025
- Global Assessment on the Use of Unique Identifiers for Businesses
- Regional course on Statistical Business Registers (Japan, March 2024)
- Regional Workshop on Statistical Business Registers and Industrial Classifications (Jordan, June 2024)
