UN Headquarters in New York City.
Image: HUNAGI Visuals resource, 2004
The coming UN Statistical Portal promises easy access to data
The new portal of the UN Statistical Division announced to be opened in Summer 2007 will have the following features:
- free of charge access to United Nations Statistics Division data,
- search and browse several databases using one easy to use interface,
- new and improved data and metadata presentation.
Recently the UN Statistical databases can be reached at the conventional entry point:
http://unstats.un.org/unsd/databases.htm
Source: Jelle U. Hielkema
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