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Report of the Statistical Commission on Its 55th Session and Provisional Agenda and Dates of the 56th Session of the Commission

E/DEC/2024/312View PDF

Who adopted this document and its mandates?

A Decision of the Economic and Social Council, under agenda item 18c Statistics, published in 2024.

What other versions does this mandate have?

4 versions · 2023–2026
This is an older version — the most recent is E/DEC/2026/320
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2026
E/DEC/2026/320

Report of the Statistical Commission on its 57th session and provisional agenda and dates of the 58th session of the Commission

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2025
E/DEC/2025/315

Report of the Statistical Commission on its 56th session and provisional agenda and dates of the 57th session of the Commission

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2024
E/DEC/2024/312

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2023
E/DEC/2023/325

Report of the Statistical Commission on its 54th session and provisional agenda and dates of the 55th session of the Commission

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Which reports were submitted under this mandate?

21 reports · 2023–2025
YearSymbolTitleMandate resolution
2025E/CN.3/2026/32Policy decisions of the General Assembly and the Economic and Social Council that are relevant to the work of the Statistical Commission report of the Secretary-GeneralE/DEC/2025/315
2025E/CN.3/2026/10Environment and climate change statistics report of the Secretary-GeneralE/DEC/2025/315
2025E/CN.3/2026/24Gender statistics report of the Secretary-GeneralE/DEC/2025/315
2025E/CN.3/2026/25Disability statistics joint report of the Secretary-General, the Washington Group on Disability Statistics and international agencies on disability statisticsE/DEC/2025/315
2025E/CN.3/2026/33World Statistics Day report of the Secretary-GeneralE/DEC/2025/315

What’s in this document?

45 operative paragraphs
At its 20th plenary meeting, on 5 June 2024, the Economic and Social Council:
(a) Took note of the report of the Statistical Commission on its fifty-fifth session;29
(b) Decided that the fifty-sixth session of the Commission would be held in New York from 4 to 7 March 2025;
(c) Approved the provisional agenda and documentation for the fifty-sixth session of the Commission as set out below:
29 Official Records of the Economic and Social Council, 2024, Supplement No. 4 (E/2024/24).
1
Election of officers.
2
Adoption of the annotated provisional agenda and other organizational matters.
Documentation
Provisional agenda and annotations
Note by the Secretariat on the provisional programme of the work and timetable
3
Demographic and social statistics:
a
Demographic statistics;
Documentation
Report of the Secretary-General
b
Migration statistics;
Documentation
Report of the Secretary-General
c
Work and employment statistics;
Documentation
Report of the International Labour Organization
d
Education statistics;
Documentation
Report of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization
4
Economic statistics:
a
National accounts;
Documentation
Report of the Intersecretariat Working Group on National Accounts
b
Informal economy statistics;
Documentation
Report of the International Labour Organization
c
Finance statistics;
Documentation
Report of the International Monetary Fund
d
Environmental-economic accounting;
Documentation
Report of the Committee of Experts on Environmental-Economic Accounting
e
Industrial statistics;
Documentation
Report of the United Nations Industrial Development Organization
f
Energy statistics;
Documentation
Report of the Oslo Group on Energy Statistics
g
Business and trade statistics;
Documentation
Report of the Committee of Experts on Business and Trade Statistics
h
International Comparison Programme;
Report of the World Bank
i
Price statistics;
Documentation
Report of the Ottawa Group on Price Indices
5
Natural resource and environment statistics:
a
Environment statistics;
Documentation
Report of the Secretary-General
b
Disaster-related statistics;
Documentation
Report of the core group of the Inter-Agency and Expert Group on Disaster-related Statistics
6
Governance statistics:
Statistics on drugs and drug use;
Documentation
Report of the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime
7
Cross-cutting domains:
a
Data and indicators for the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development;
Documentation
Report of the Inter-agency and Expert Group on Sustainable Development Goal Indicators
Report of the High-level Group for Partnership, Coordination and Capacity-Building for Statistics for the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development
Report of the Secretary-General on the work on the review of progress towards the Sustainable Development Goals
b
Statistics on human development;
Documentation
Report of the United Nations Development Programme
c
Food security and nutrition;
Documentation
Report of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, the World Health Organization and the United Nations Children’s Fund
Statistical infrastructure and methodology:
a
Civil registration and vital statistics;
Documentation
Report of the Secretary-General
b
International statistical classifications;
Documentation
Report of the Committee of Experts on International Statistical Classifications
c
Population and housing censuses;
Documentation
Report of the Secretary-General
d
Household surveys;
Documentation
Report of the Intersecretariat Working Group on Household Surveys
e
Common open standards for the exchange and sharing of data and metadata;
Documentation
Report of the Statistical Data and Metadata Exchange sponsors
f
Data science;
Documentation
Report of the Committee of Experts on Big Data and Data Science for Official Statistics
g
Integration of statistical and geospatial information;
Documentation
Report of the Expert Group on the Integration of Statistical and Geospatial Information
9
Management and modernization of statistical systems:
a
Management and modernization of statistical systems;
Documentation
Report of the Secretary-General
b
Fundamental Principles of Official Statistics;
Documentation
Report of the Secretary-General
c
Data stewardship;
Documentation
Report of the Working Group on Data Stewardship
d
National quality assurance frameworks;
Documentation
Report of the Expert Group on National Quality Assurance Frameworks
e
Statistical capacity development;
Documentation
Report of the Secretary-General
10
Specific items of the Statistical Commission and the Statistics Division:
a
Follow-up to the policy decisions of the General Assembly and the Economic and Social Council;
Documentation
Report of the Secretary-General
b
Working methods of the Statistical Commission;
Documentation
Report of the Bureau of the Commission
c
Regional statistical development;
Documentation
Report of the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean
11
Programme questions (Statistics Division).
12
Provisional agenda and dates of the fifty-seventh session of the Commission.
Documentation
Note by the Secretariat containing the draft provisional agenda of the fifty-seventh session of the Commission
Note by the Secretariat on the draft multi-year programme of work of the Commission
13
Report of the Commission on its fifty-sixth session.

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