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More than 4.2 billion people lived in the Asia-Pacific region in 2010, constituting 61% of the world’s population...
Fertility rates have declined in the region, in 2010, the region-wide fertility rate was equal to the “replacement rate”, at 2.1...
Asia and the Pacific has the highest ratio of boys to girls in the world...
The elderly numbered 294 million in Asia and the Pacific in 2010...
Asia and the Pacific is urbanizing with the rest of the world...
In 2010, the Asia-Pacific region was host to 53 million migrants...
In 2009, 2.8 million infants and an additional 0.8 million children under 5 died in Asia and the Pacific...
Maternal mortality in Asia and the Pacific has been halved in the past two decades...
In Asia and the Pacific, an estimated 6.1 million people were living with HIV and almost 300,000 people died from AIDS-related causes in 2009...
Malaria affects millions of people in the Asia-Pacific region each year...
Although tuberculosis incidence is declining, there were 5.9 million new cases reported in 2009...
Non-communicable diseases are a major cause of lost life in Asian and Pacific countries...
Nine of every 10 children of primary school age in Asia and the Pacific attended school in 2008; but only 6 in 10 of secondary school age did...
All but six Asia-Pacific countries have achieved gender parity in primary school enrolment...
Asia and the Pacific includes the largest number of illiterate adults of any region in the world...
The total expenditure on R&D for Asia increased by PPP$155 billion over the last decade, bringing its global share from 27% to 32%...
Female participation in the Asian and Pacific labour force remained at 65 employed women per 100 employed men from 1991 to 2009...
Women’s access to land and property is still “very limited” in some Asian and Pacific countries...
In the region, only Hong Kong, China has full legislation on gender-based violence in the region...
Women are underrepresented in national and local politics in almost all Asian and Pacific countries...
People living in extreme poverty in Asia and the Pacific declined from about 1.6 billion in 1990 to 0.9 billion in 2008...
In Asia and the Pacific, 466 million people lacked access to improved water sources and 1.86 billion lacked access to improved sanitation in 2010...
Asian and Pacific countries accounted for almost half the world’s CO₂ emissions in 2008; whereas in 1990 their share of the world total was 38%...
Asia and the Pacific had the highest annual water withdrawal of all regions...
In 2008, Asia and the Pacific produced more energy than any other world region, accounting for 46% of global production...
Threats to biodiversity in Asia and the Pacific are prevalent...
Natural disasters killed an average of more than 70,000 people every year of the last decade in Asia and the Pacific...
Defying the 2009 world financial crisis, Asia and the Pacific maintained positive GDP growth in 2009...
Monetary effects of the 2009 global financial crisis are also apparent in Asia and the Pacific...
By 2010 Asia and the Pacific surpassed its pre-crisis, 2008 levels of exports and imports, the only region in the world to have done so...
Trade dependence in the Asia-Pacific region has almost doubled since 1990...
China overtook Japan in 2009 as the top Asia-Pacific exporter of services...
Asia-Pacific investment contractions and negative fiscal balances in 2009 reflect outcomes of the global financial crisis...
The Asia-Pacific region has the lowest unemployment rate in 2009, at 5.0%, of any world region...
Employment is higher for men than women...
In 2009, FDI inflow to the Asia-Pacific region dropped 30%, while ODA inflows plunged 70%...
Overseas worker’s remittances contribute substantially to many Asian and Pacific countries...
Mobile phone subscriptions in Asia and the Pacific were four times more than fixed line phone subscriptions in 2009...
The number of Internet users in Asia and the Pacific in 2009 was more than 5 times higher than in 2000 (20 users per 100 people in 2009 versus 3 per 100 people in 2000)...
In 2008, of the world’s top 30 container ports in terms of throughput, 20 were in the Asia-Pacific region, including the top 5...
Overall demand for Asian and Pacific rail passenger transport services grew by 72%, from 1995 to 2008; and for freight transport by 84% to 2009...
Half of the substandard roadways in the Asian Highway network were upgraded to the standard between 2004 and 2008...
Tourism is thriving in Asia and the Pacific, where inbound tourist arrivals totalled almost 204 million or nearly 22% of the world total in 2010...
Over one quarter of the world’s total CO₂ emissions from transport in 2008 were from Asia and the Pacific...

Workshop on MDG Indicators Methodology, Bangkok, 4-8 June 2012.

Training on Victimization Surveys, Bangkok, 11-14 June 2012.

Working meeting of the Technical Advisory Group on Social Statistics, Bangkok, 13-15 June 2012.

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Meeting of Drafting Committee: Implementation of the Global Strategy to Improve Agricultural Statistics, Bangkok, 24 - 25 May 2012

Partners Meeting on a Regional Plan for the Improvement of Civil Registration and Vital Statistics in Asia and the Pacific, Bangkok, 7-8 May 2012.

Preparatory Regional Meeting of Labour Statisticians for the 19th International Conference of Labour Statisticians (ICLS), Bangkok, 2-4 May 2012.

Supporting effective use of information and communications technology in population census operations - Practical Advisory workshop, Moscow, 16-19 April 2012.

UNWTO's 3rd Workshop on Tourism Statistics Capacity-Building Programme, Bangkok, 5-6 March 2012 & Regional Seminar for Asia-Pacific Region, Bangkok, 8-9 March 2012.

Third Meeting of Partners for Statistics Development in Asia-Pacific, UNHQ, New York, 26 February 2012 (16:30-19:00 hours).

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Statistical Newsletter, 1st Quarter, 2012 (Published: 2 April 2012)

Asia-Pacific Regional MDG Report 2011/12 (Published: 17 February 2012)

Statistical Yearbook for Asia and the Pacific 2011 (Published: 12 October 2011)

The publication presents an analysis of current trends and emerging topics in the Asia-Pacific, grouped around the themes of people, the environment, the economy and connectivity; it provides the international and regional community with key indicators, objective analyses of the current trends and emerging issues, along with data and charts.

The Statistical Yearbook for Asia and the Pacific 2011 consists of a print publication, an accompanying online booklet, The region@your fingertip, and a database.