Development Indicators
In its ongoing deliberations on the "Integrated and coordinated
implementation and follow-up of major United Nations conferences
and summits at all levels", the Economic and Social Council,
in its resolution 2000/27 of 28 July 2000, invites the Statistical
Commission to serve as the intergovernmental focal point for the
review of the indicators used by the United Nations system. The
report prepared by the Statistics Division of the Department of
Economic and Social Affairs (E/1999/11, English
, Arabic,
Chinese, French, Spanish, Russian) assessed the present status of
development indicators at the country and the international level
and was a result of a collaborative effort by selected countries,
relevant United Nations Secretariat units, a wide range of United
Nations funds and programmes, specialized agencies and international
institutions. The first draft of the report was discussed and reviewed
by an expert group meeting held in March 1999 in New York and by
the Statistical Commission during its thirtieth session. This report
includes the proposed indicators of the common country assessments.
A follow-up report prepared for the Statistical Commission at its
thirty-first session contains an update on the indicator debate
at the substantive session of 2000 of the Economic and Social Council
in July 2000 (E/CN.3/2001/16)
(174 KB)
. The report describes the activities of the United Nations Statistics
Division in support of the implementation of the Council resolution
2000/27. The Statistics Division activities, inter alia, focus on
developing an agreed process to rationalize and harmonize the various
sets of conference indicators and on strengthening national capacity
to produce relevant indicators for policy decision-making. This
report also contains a proposed action plan for the period 2001-2002
(see Annex II).
For further information or comments, contact:
Statistics Division
United Nations
Room DC2-1416
New York, NY 10017, U.S.A.
Fax: +1-212-963-9851
E-mail: Methods inquiries:indicator@un.org
Data requests: statistics@un.org
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