The Sustainable Development Goal indicators: prospective scenarios for 2030

The 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development includes a set of goals and targets to be met by 2030 with the aim of securing people’s well-being through sustained economic growth without neglecting the maintenance and conservation of the planet’s ecosystems. The international statistical community, led by Member States and supported by the United Nations, has created a global indicator framework for the monitoring and statistical follow-up of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) to facilitate the task of reviewing, adjusting and implementing public policies that can contribute to fulfilment …

Economic Indicators and Statistics Database (BADECON): selected manufacturing industry indicators in Latin America and the Caribbean

Industrial policy today remains as important as ever for Latin America and the Caribbean. Moving towards development requires a rational, inclusive and sustainable industrial policy guided by the intensive use of information, enabling the definition and dissemination of indicators that are useful for decision-making. The Statistics Division of the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC), with the support of national statistical offices, has been building a database of economic surveys to compile annual basic statistics for calculating statistical indicators on the manuf…

Provisional agenda. Twelfth meeting of the Statistical Conference of the Americas of the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean

Annotated provisional agenda. Twelfth meeting of the Statistical Conference of the Americas of the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean

Advancing geospatial information management for disaster risk management in the Caribbean

The Caribbean is highly vulnerable to the impacts of climate change, extreme weather events and other natural hazards. The subregion is also exposed to anthropogenic hazards, including petroleum and other industrial chemical spills, fires, and soil, air and water pollution. These hazards can result in loss of life and other health impacts, damage to infrastructure, social and economic disruptions and ecological degradation. To significantly reduce the negative effects of these hazards, it is important that key stakeholders, including national disaster management agencies, development partners,…

The Hummingbird Vol. 10 No. 6

Brief overview of Caribbean countries based on standardized household surveys

ECLAC regularly compiles and harmonizes data from household surveys for Latin American countries. The harmonization of information allows the production of comparable indicators and enables undertaking comparative analysis across countries. For this instance, ECLAC’s Statistics Division has extended this work to include household surveys from Caribbean countries, with the support from ECLAC subregional headquarters for the Caribbean. This document takes advantage of the harmonization work of the surveys to present an overview of the social indicators in ten Caribbean countries or territories: …

Revenue Statistics in Latin America and the Caribbean 2023

This report compiles comparable tax revenue statistics over the period 1990‑2021 for 27 Latin American and Caribbean economies. Based on the OECD Revenue Statistics database, it applies the OECD methodology to countries in Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC) to enable comparison of tax levels and tax structures on a consistent basis, both among the economies of the region and with other economies. The report includes two special features examining the fiscal revenues from non‑renewable natural resources in the LAC region in 2021 and 2022 as well as the measurement and evaluation of tax expen…

Agreements. Twenty-second meeting of the Executive Committee of the Statistical Conference of the Americas of the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean

The Hummingbird Vol. 10 No. 5

Second Report on the Implementation of the Biennial Programme of Regional and International Cooperation Activities, 2022-2023, of the Statistical Conference of the Americas of the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean

Provisional agenda. Twenty-second meeting of the Executive Committee of the Statistical Conference of the Americas of the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean

Annotated provisional agenda. Twenty-second meeting of the Executive Committee of the Statistical Conference of the Americas of the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean

The Hummingbird Vol. 10 No. 4

Report of the Twenty-first meeting of the Executive Committee of the Statistical Conference of the Americas of the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean

The Hummingbird Vol. 10 No. 3

The Role of Data for SDG Advancement in the Caribbean

Anuario Estadístico de América Latina y el Caribe 2022 = Statistical Yearbook for Latin America and the Caribbean 2022

En el Anuario Estadístico de América Latina y el Caribe de la CEPAL se presenta un conjunto de estadísticas básicas que caracterizan la situación económica, sociodemográfica y ambiental de la región referidas a un período en particular. Esta información forma parte del conjunto de estadísticas disponibles en CEPALSTAT, el portal de bases de datos y publicaciones estadísticas de la CEPAL. La presente edición del Anuario contiene datos que se encontraban disponibles hasta mediados de diciembre de 2022. El Anuario consta de tres capítulos. El primero, en que se presentan los indicadores demográfi…

Beyond GDP: statistical challenges of measuring development. Seminar within the framework of the Twenty-first meeting of the Executive Committee of the Statistical Conference of the Americas of the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean

The ageing Caribbean: 20 years of the Madrid Plan of Action

This report assess the situation of older persons and reviews the actions taken in Caribbean countries and territories, particularly over the past five years, to implement the Madrid International Plan of Action on Ageing and related regional agreements. It contributes to the global and regional reviews of the Plan of Action, 20 years on from its adoption in 2002, and includes recommendations to further address population ageing and the rights of older persons in the Caribbean.…