The data revolution: enhancing information to promote sustainable development

18 Nov 2025 | Publication

Work area(s)

Statistics

Topic(s)

Data science Environmental statistics Gender statistics Economic statistics Social statistics

The data revolution: enhancing information to promote sustainable development

  • Publication type: ECLAC Statistical Briefings
  • Publication corporate author (Institutional author): NU. CEPAL
  • Physical description: 9 pages
  • Publisher: ECLAC
  • Date: 18 November 2025

Abstract

There is a growing demand for more and better real-time information to make evidence-based decisions. This compels us to reflect on how official statistics are produced and, more importantly, on the range of information sources available in a world generating an immense and growing volume of data enabled by new technologies.
These new data sets go beyond traditional data ecosystems and call for innovation in processes, mechanisms, and tools to generate knowledge from a chaotic ocean of unstructured data, which in many cases exceeds the capabilities of current official statistical information systems.