Statistics and indicators on women and men

As a response to the concerns raised in
the previous issue, The World’s Women 2005: Progress
in Statistics reviews and analyses the current
availability of data and assesses progress made in the
provision of national statistics, as opposed to
internationally prepared estimates, relevant to gender
concerns during the past 30 years. This report proposes
a set of strategies to strengthen national capacity to
collect and report statistics and also for improved
mainstreaming of gender concerns.

The Annex reports on the availability
of national statistics of key gender concerns as well as
providing updated figures for many of the indicators
presented in The
World’s Women 2000: Trends and Statistics, plus
some additional relevant indicators of the status of
women and men.

The World’s Women report is
prepared by the Statistics Division of the UN Department
for Economic and Social Affairs (UN DESA) at regular
five-year intervals starting in 1991. The three previous
issues compiled and analyzed data on women’s status
world wide.

Press release
	An Unfinished Job: Tracking Vital Statistics Disaggregated by Sex		Arabic     Chinese     English	Français     Russian     Spanish	299 KB
	What Part Do Women Play in World Economic Activity? Their Contribution Still Not Fully Captured By Official Statistics		Arabic     Chinese     English	Français     Russian     Spanish	160 KB
	Slow Progress in Official Statistics Bringing Violence against Women to Public Scrutiny		Arabic     Chinese     English	Français     Russian     Spanish	132 KB
	UN calls for added statistical capacities to back-up push for women’s rights, development		Arabic     Chinese     English	Français     Russian     Spanish	276 KB
	Civil conflict and severe lack of development take a toll on statistical capacities		Arabic     Chinese     English	Français     Russian     Spanish	119 KB

Press material   UN webcast of the press conference     VIDEO UN press release     HTML     Chapters of The World’s Women 2005: Progress in Statistics     Executive summary Color B&W* PDF 119 KB     Report by chapter       Front matter Color B&W* PDF 2,338 KB     Introduction Color B&W* PDF 124 KB     Chapter 1 – Population, households and families Color B&W* PDF 294 KB     Chapter 2 – Health Color B&W* PDF 344 KB     Chapter 3 – Education and training Color B&W* PDF 230 KB     Chapter 4 – Work Color B&W* PDF 459 KB     Chapter 5 – Violence against women Color B&W* PDF 214 KB     Chapter 6 – Poverty, decision-making and human rights Color B&W* PDF 202 KB     Chapter 7 – Conclusion Color B&W* PDF 91 KB     Annexes         Annex I – Statistical tables Color B&W* PDF 1,991 KB     Annex II – List of countries or areas by development group Color B&W* PDF 55 KB               Complete report Color Color PDF 4,970 KB ZIP 1,255 KB   B&W* B&W* PDF 3,361 KB ZIP 879 KB

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The World’s
Women 2005: Progress in Statistics
(ST/ESA/STAT/SER.K/17), United Nations Publication,
Sales No. E.05.XVII.7, ISBN
92-1-161482-1