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2023 UN Datathon: Data professionals are invited to develop ideas and solutions that contribute to the achievement of the Sustainable Development Goals

2 August 2023 | Briefing note

Participants in this global data science competition are expected to develop innovative data-driven statistical applications, tools or models that combine geospatial data with other data sources that help advance the implementation of the Sustainable Development Goals.…

Latin-America and the Caribbean at the High-Level Political Forum on Sustainable Development 2023: Accelerating progress towards a sustainable future

12 July 2023 | Briefing note

This month, countries come together at the High-Level Political Forum on Sustainable Development (HLPF) to take stock of progress on the implementation of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development and its 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).…

First Meeting of the Regional Conference on South-South Cooperation in Latin America and the Caribbean

19 June 2023 | Briefing note

The Regional Conference on South-South Cooperation in Latin America and the Caribbean, a subsidiary body of the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC), aims to promote the strengthening of national South-South and triangular cooperation mechanisms and their possible interactions with North-South and multilateral cooperation. The conference encouraged regional and extra-regional actors, donor countries and international organizations to engage in South-South and triangular cooperation to facilitate knowledge and technology transfer and achieve cooperation activities.…

Subnational Gross Domestic Product by production approach

5 June 2023 | Briefing note

Sub-national accounts is an important tool to understand the structure of goods and services produced and how they have evolved in the different territories of a country. In this sense, ECLAC makes available to users new subnational GDP indicators available for 11 Latin American countries that are expected to constitute a substantive contribution for decision-making and development planning of a nation.…

New Statistical Geoportal of INDEC, Argentina

30 May 2023 | Briefing note

A geoportal is a web application whose purpose is to offer users access to a series of resources and services based on geographic information, enabling integration, interoperability and the exchange, in this case, of statistical information.…

First Meeting of Experts of the Community of Practice on Agricultural Statistics in Central America and the Dominican Republic

11 May 2023 | Briefing note

The First Meeting of Experts of the Community of Practice on Agricultural Statistics in Central America and the Dominican Republic took place via virtual mode on the 11th and 12th of May 2023.…

Sixth Meeting of the Forum of the Countries of Latin America and the Caribbean on Sustainable Development

20 April 2023 | Briefing note

The Forum of the Countries of Latin America and the Caribbean on Sustainable Development is State-led and open to participation by all Latin American and Caribbean countries. It is convened under the auspices of ECLAC and guided by the principles established for all follow-up and review processes by the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, adopted in September 2015 by the United Nations General Assembly.…

Measuring Disability through Administrative Records in Education: Recommendations for Latin America

2 March 2023 | Briefing note

The report Measuring disability through administrative records of education in Latin America: diagnosis and recommendations to move towards regional harmonization presents a proposal for measuring disability for administrative records in education at the initial, primary, secondary, tertiary and higher education levels to be applied in Latin America and to move towards a framework of comparability and harmonization between countries in the region of statistical information on students with disabilities.…

Technological tools for the dissemination of disaggregated statistics in the territory

1 March 2023 | Briefing note

Follow-up meeting of the ECLAC project on the implementation of statistical geoportals in 8 countries of the region. The meeting was held within the framework of the 54th session of the United Nations Statistical Commission.…

75 years of ECLAC

24 February 2023 | Briefing note

New website highlights the contributions of ECLAC to Latin America and the Caribbean in the past 75 years Learn about the history of the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) and discover how it has shaped thinking on public policy and development and supported the region by promoting economic, social and sustainable development initiatives over almost eight decades.…

The 2030 Agenda: Are Latin America and the Caribbean on Track to Achieve the Sustainable Development Goals by 2030?

21 February 2023 | Briefing note

When the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development was adopted by all 193 Member States of the United Nations at the Sustainable Development Summit in New York in September 2015 as “a shared blueprint for peace and prosperity for people and the planet, now and into the future”, it presented a historic opportunity for Latin America and the Caribbean. Despite progress, the region needs to step up their efforts.…

New Research Guide: Development Planning in the 60th anniversary of ILPES

23 January 2023 | Briefing note

Published in Spanish, English and Portuguese, this living research and study resource systematizes the history of ILPES and development planning in Latin America and the Caribbean.…

New Research Guide: Environment and Climate Change Statistics for Latin America and the Caribbean

14 November 2022 | Briefing note

The Hernán Santa Cruz Library has prepared a new research guide on Environment and Climate Change Statistics for Latin America and the Caribbean in collaboration with the Environment Statistics Unit of the ECLAC Statistics Division.…

Pressure on natural resources in Latin America and the Caribbean: a statistical approach

1 September 2022 | Briefing note

The nominal series of commodity exports and total exports, which form part of the recent update of information in CEPALSTAT and are available for consultation, show the pressures on natural resources in Latin America and the Caribbean.…

The ECLAC Statistics Division presents the repository of the Supply and Use Tables and the Input-Output Tables of Latin America and the Caribbean countries

30 March 2022 | Briefing note

It is available in CEPALSTAT platform, the main gateway to the statistical information on the region’s countries that is collected, systematized and published by ECLAC.…

New ECLAC publication on statistical topics

13 May 2021 | Briefing note

The first issue of this new Bulletin presents the different measures that have been taken by the national statistical offices responsible for compiling their country’s CPI while the health emergency continues.…

ECLA takes part in the Americas Geospatial Forum and the Sixth Session UN-GGIM: Americas

8 October 2019 | Briefing note

In the framework of the efforts to strengthen geospatial information management in the region, representatives of this Commission will attend these meetings that will be held in Mexico City, from 9–11 October 2019.…

First meeting of the Statistical Coordination Group for the 2030 Agenda in Latin America and the Caribbean of the Statistical Conference of the Americas

6 June 2018 | Briefing note

The meeting will take place from 11 and 12 June 2018 in the ECLAC Office in Buenos Aires.…