October 26, 2007
The Demographic Yearbook is an international compendium of national demographic statistics, provided by national statistical authorities to the Statistics Division of the United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs. The Yearbook is part of the set of coordinated and interrelated publications issued by the United Nations and its specialized agencies, designed to supply basic statistical data for such users as demographers, economists, public-health workers and sociologists. Through the co-operation of national statistical services, official demographic statistics are compiled in the Yearbook, as available, for more than 230 countries or areas throughout the world. The Demographic Yearbook 2004 is the fifty-sixth in a series published by the United Nations since 1948. It contains general tables including a world summary of selected demographic statistics, statistics on the size, distribution and trends in national populations, natality, foetal mortality, infant and maternal mortality, general mortality, nuptiality and divorce. Data are shown by urban/rural residence, as available. In addition, the volume provides Technical Notes, a synoptic table, a subject matter index, a historical index and a listing of the issues of the Yearbook published to date.
Posted by Gary Holden at October 26, 2007 4:13 PM