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21 February 2024 | Press Release

2023 Edition of ECLAC’s Statistical Yearbook Offers a Set of Regional Statistics on the Three Pillars of Development
The 2023 version of this document includes select indicators on the economic, social and environmental situation in Latin America and the Caribbean.
25 January 2024 | Press Release

The “Ministerial Meeting of Education” Begins in Santiago, With an Urgent Call to Recover and Reactivate the Educational Systems of Latin America and the Caribbean
The meeting, organized by the Ministry of Education of Chile (MINEDUC) and UNESCO, with the support of ECLAC, CAF, UNICEF and the World Bank, addresses the challenge of educational reactivation, the transformation of teaching, and financing. To overcome these challenges, it is necessary to have public policies to guarantee the right to education for 125 million students in the region.
23 November 2023 | Press Release

Poverty in Latin America Returned to Pre-Pandemic Levels in 2022, ECLAC Reports with an Urgent Call for Progress on Labour Inclusion
Despite this improvement in the indicators, more than 180 million people in the region do not have enough income to meet their basic needs and 70 million of them lack the income needed to acquire a basic food basket, the Commission warns in its report Social Panorama of Latin America and the Caribbean 2023.
28 September 2023 | Press Release

Statistical Conference of the Americas Successfully Concludes its Twelfth Meeting
At the end of the event, countries urged for generating and consolidating statistics and indicators on the environment, climate change and disasters.
26 September 2023 | Press Release

Official Statistics are an Indispensable Public Good for the Proper Functioning of Societies and Democracy
The Twelfth Meeting of the Statistical Conference of the Americas was inaugurated today at ECLAC’s main headquarters in Santiago, Chile.
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25 September 2023 | News

New CEPALGEO Platform Seeks to Strengthen Geospatial Knowledge in Latin America and the Caribbean
The portal presents geographic viewers, geoservices and links to ECLAC’s projects involving a territorial perspective on various social, economic and environmental issues.
Fotografía de los asistentes a la Conferencia. Sala Celso Furtado de la CEPAL.
25 September 2023 | News

Countries Stress the Need to Have Sustainable Access to Data Held by the Private Sector for Official Statistical Purposes
Authorities from National Statistical Offices issued a statement in the framework of the 12th Meeting of the Statistical Conference of the Americas of ECLAC.
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25 September 2023 | News

ECLAC Presents Portal of Inequalities in Latin America
The platform uses graphics to clearly visualize the existing gaps and texts that describe the construction of the indicators, their interpretation and the results they yield.
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22 September 2023 | News

How to Follow the Twelfth Meeting of the Statistical Conference of the Americas
The main panels at the meeting will be broadcast live on September 26-28, 2023. The invitation, on social media, is to participate in the debates using the hashtags #estadísticasALC and #statisticsLAC.
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21 September 2023 | Announcement

Twelfth Meeting of the Statistical Conference of the Americas Will Take Place at ECLAC
This intergovernmental gathering will be held at the United Nations regional organization’s main headquarters in Santiago, Chile on September 26-28, 2023.
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3 May 2023 | News

Authorities Agree on the Urgency of Improving the Gathering of Information and of Achieving Accurate and Timely Data for Decision-Making
The twenty-second meeting of the Executive Committee of the Statistical Conference of the Americas (SCA) is taking place virtually through Thursday, May 4.
foto de José Manuel Salazar-Xirinachs, Secretario Ejecutivo de la CEPAL.
10 March 2023 | News

ECLAC and Eurostat Signed Agreement to Cooperate on Statistics

The accord between the United Nations regional organization and the Statistical Authority of the European Union was finalized during a virtual ceremony.
22 February 2023 | Press Release

ECLAC Presents a Selection of Key Statistics on Development in the Region’s Countries
The 2022 version of the Statistical Yearbook includes selected indicators on Latin America and the Caribbean’s economic, social and environmental situation.
26 January 2023 | Press Release

ECLAC Calls on Countries to Strengthen the Production, Analysis and Use of Statistics to Address the Causes of Migration with a Development and Human Rights Perspective
José Manuel Salazar-Xirinachs, the regional commission’s Executive Secretary, participated in the closing session of the Third International Forum on Migration Statistics, which was held at ECLAC’s headquarters in Chile.
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11 January 2023 | Announcement

What to expect at the Third International Forum on Migration Statistics
24 November 2022 | Press Release

Poverty Rates in Latin America Remain Above Pre-Pandemic Levels in 2022, ECLAC Warns
The Social Panorama 2022 report projects that 201 million people (32.1% of the region’s total population) live in situations of poverty, with 82 million (13.1%) of them in extreme poverty. The regional organization calls for urgently addressing the silent crisis in education to avert the risk of a lost generation.
30 August 2022 | Press Release

Making Progress on Social Protection in Latin America and the Caribbean is More Urgent than Ever
Government authorities, international officials and specialists participated in the opening session of the Second Regional Seminar on Social Development, organized virtually by ECLAC in collaboration with various institutions.
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25 August 2022 | News

Countries Reaffirm the Importance of Generating More and Better Statistics for Decision-Making
Representatives of Latin American and Caribbean countries concluded the twenty-first meeting of the Executive Committee of the Statistical Conference of the Americas of ECLAC.
24 August 2022 | Press Release

Authorities Urge for Deepening Regional Cooperation to Meet the Growing Demand for Timely, Quality Statistical Information
The twenty-first meeting of the Executive Committee of the Statistical Conference of the Americas (SCA) was inaugurated today at ECLAC’s central headquarters in Santiago, Chile.
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19 August 2022 | Announcement

Representatives of National Statistics Institutes from Latin America and the Caribbean Will Analyze Progress on Regional and International Statistical Cooperation
The Executive Committee of the Statistical Conference of the Americas of ECLAC will hold its twenty-first meeting on August 24-25 at the regional organization’s central headquarters in Santiago, Chile.

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