The Statistical Yearbook for Asia and the Pacific was prepared under the overall guidance of Pietro Gennari. Ilpo Survo managed the interdivisional project and acted as editor in chief. Substantive Divisions of ESCAP drafted most of the chapters based on data compiled by the Statistics Division.

The Statistical Information Services Section was responsible for compiling the data, calculating the indicators and most of the regional aggregates, for preparing the charts and tables, and compiling and pre-editing the manuscript. Eric Hermouet led the technical data compilation and output preparation, for which the team included Nongnuch Hiranyapaisansakul, Panyasri Phuvakirivivat, Krisana Boonpriroje, Panpaka Supakalin, Supharat Kaewkhonkaen, Nixie Mabanag and Marisa Limawongpranee. Artur Andrysiak, Joel Jere, Andres Montes and Christian Stoff, of the Statistics Division, drafted substantive inputs and assisted in the review of the chapters. Pornrat Lertyosthanavath and Varaphorn Prapatsakdi provided administrative support.

ESCAP Divisions were represented in the Interdivisional Project Team by Adnan Aliani, Sophie Bonjour, Kelly Hayden, Yu Kanosue, Muhammad Malik, Miguel Perez-Ludena, John Moon, Marco Roncarati, Alexander Roehrl, Jean- Michel Sadoul, Vanessa Steinmayer and Ram S. Tiwaree. They coordinated indicator selection, reviewed inputs and organized the review of the manuscript in their respective areas of expertise.

The following colleagues drafted the text (chapter number): Adnan Aliani (2), Artur Andrysiak (22, 23), Sophie Bonjour (26), Kelly Hayden (28), Jerry Huguet (1, 3-5, 7-10), Joel Jere and Marit Nilses (20), Christopher Kuonqui, Andres Montes and Jean-Michel Sadoul (29), Mia Mikic (21), Miguel Perez-Ludena, Christian Stoff and Yap Kioe Sheng (17), Ying Qiu (15-16), Hitomi Rankine (25), Atsuko Okuda and Jean- Michel Sadoul (18), Marie Sicat (6), Ermina Sokou (11, 27), Nyi Nyi Thaung (UNESCO) (12-14), Ram S. Tiwaree (21), Meng Yan (19), and Jean- Louis Vignuda (24).

Chapters 12-14 on education were prepared and reviewed by the following UNESCO Institute for Statistics (UIS) colleagues in Bangkok and Montreal: Ko-Chih Tung, Nyi Nyi Thaung, Leotes Lugo Helin, Megha Kapoor, Fujika Mawatari, Yanhong Zhang, Saïd Ould A. Voffal, Olivier Labe, Hélène Tran, Aurélie Acoca, Weixin Lu. ESCAP is grateful also to Steven Kapsos of ILO Bangkok, and Lawrence Jeffrey Johnson and Theodoor Sparreboom in Geneva for providing regional aggregates and substantively reviewing chapter 16. UNAIDS reviewed chapter 7, and ISDR and OCHA chapter 29.

ESCAP gratefully acknowledges the contribution of all other agencies that compile and make available internationally comparable statistics on their websites. Without their substantial efforts the Yearbook would not have been possible. We hope that the Yearbook increases the use of their data and the original data, the sources of which are almost always national statistical systems. The individual data sources used in the Yearbook are mentioned after the text for each chapter among the respective indicator definitions and in a separate list of online data sources.

Peter Stalker drafted the overview and edited the whole manuscript, and Marie-Ange Sylvain Holmgren provided the cover and layout design.