Demographic yearbook special topics issues cover a wide range of additional topics including economic activity, educational attainment, household characteristics, housing, ethnicity and language, among others. The demographic yearbook disseminates statistics on population size and composition, births, deaths, marriage and divorce on an annual basis. The yearbook of the united nationspublished by the department of global communicationsstands as the authoritative reference work on the activities and concerns of the organization. Demographic yearbook system united nations statistics division. The demographic yearbook disseminates statistics on population size and composition, births, deaths, marriage and divorce, as well as respective rates, on an annual basis.
The 2019 revision of world population prospects is the twentysixth round of official united nations population estimates and projections that have been prepared by the population division of the. Through the cooperation with the national statistical offices, official demographic statistics are compiled in. The demographic yearbook disseminates statistics on population size and composition, births, deaths, marriage and divorce, as well as respective rates, on an. Its most visible product, the united nations demographic. United nations statistical yearbook annuaire statistique des nations unies ser. I actually worked on a special issue of the yearbook the demographic yearbook 1987, which focused that year on household and family statistics. The statistics division of the department of economic and social affairs, through its. Table 1 population, rate of increase, birth and death rates, land area and density for the world, major areas and regions.
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Statistical data at the national and regional levels are provided in longterm time series. While population statistics produced by national ministries are not available for all countries, annex i in the demographic yearbook presents population estimates for the period 20022011 and annex ii. S 27 dec 2019 this publication is an annual compilation of a wide range of international economic, social and. Data have been collected from national statistical authorities since 1948 through a set of questionnaires dispatched annually by the united nations statistics division to over 230 national statistical offices. Demographics definition in the cambridge english dictionary. This web site contains data tables, figures, maps, analyses and technical notes from the current revision of the world population prospects. Source publication with detailed information on vital statistics and migration of the population incl. Through the cooperation with the national statistical offices, official demographic statistics are compiled in the yearbook, as available, for more than 230 countries and areas of the world up to the reference year 2015. We compile and disseminate global statistical information, develop standards and norms for. Article pdf available january 2015 with 89 reads how we measure reads. The united nations demographic yearbook collects, compiles and disseminates official statistics on a wide range of topics. The united nations statistics division is committed to the advancement of the global statistical system.
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