ESCWA Publication: E/ESCWA/SCU/2007/9
Country: Arab region
Publication Type: Reports & studies
Publication Subject: Arab Society: A Compendium of Social Statistics
Cluster: Statistics, Information Society and Technology
Focus Area: 2030 Agenda, Inclusive development, Statistics
Initiatives: Arab information society
SDGs: Goal 11: Sustainable Cities and Communities
Keywords: Arab countries, Social indicators, Social statistics, Sustainable development, Culture, Public expenditures, Demography, Employment, Health, Housing conditions, Population, Poverty, Criminal statistics, Cultural statistics, Demographic statistics, Educational statistics, Human settlements, Manpower statistics, Statistical data
Compendium of Social Statistics and Indicators, Social Indicators of the Commission of Sustainable Development, No. 8
January 2007
Sustainable development has been recognized as a cross-cutting issue and basic pillar for improving lives and ensuring peace and prosperity. The eighth issue of the Compendium focuses on the social indicators of the Commission of Sustainable Development (CSD), being a cross-cutting topic in international frameworks and of relevance to the ESCWA region. A reduced list of indicators is presented in accordance with regional development priorities. Data were mainly compiled from national statistical offices and supplemented with international data. Country-specific and cross-country analyses show that the ESCWA countries have made significant improvements in many social indictors of the CSD framework since the 1990s. Notwithstanding this progress, efforts are needed to address intraregional disparities, the gender gap, and the urban-rural divide, in addition to overcoming data limitations in some areas in order to support evidence-based policymaking for sustainable development in the region.
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Sustainable development has been recognized as a cross-cutting issue and basic pillar for improving lives and ensuring peace and prosperity. The eighth issue of the Compendium focuses on the social indicators of the Commission of Sustainable Development (CSD), being a cross-cutting topic in international frameworks and of relevance to the ESCWA region. A reduced list of indicators is presented in accordance with regional development priorities. Data were mainly compiled from national statistical offices and supplemented with international data. Country-specific and cross-country analyses show that the ESCWA countries have made significant improvements in many social indictors of the CSD framework since the 1990s. Notwithstanding this progress, efforts are needed to address intraregional disparities, the gender gap, and the urban-rural divide, in addition to overcoming data limitations in some areas in order to support evidence-based policymaking for sustainable development in the region.
