Anuario Estadistico De Am Rica Latina Y El Caribe

This annual publication provides a range of economic and social data for the countries of the Latin America and Caribbean region. Part one contains derived socio-economic indicators under the headings of social development and welfare, economic growth, domestic prices, capital formation and financing, external trade in goods and services and external financing. Part two gives historical data series in absolute figures for the region and individual countries regarding population, national accounts, domestic prices, balance of payments, external financing and debt, external trade in goods and services, natural resources and production of goods, infrastructure services, employment and social conditions. This edition also includes a CD-ROM with statistical tables, in Excel, covering data series from 1980 onwards.

This year's issue of the Yearbook consists of three chapters. The first chapter provides social statistics on population, labour, education, health, housing and basic services, poverty and income distribution, and gender. The second presents economic statistics and covers national accounts, external sector, prices, and sectoral statistics, in particular, agriculture and mining and manufacturing. Reflecting the growing concern of the regional and international community for sustainable development, the third chapter provides data on natural resources and the environment finalizing with environmental management.

The Statistical Yearbook for Latin America and the Caribbean of ECLAC presents a set of basic statistics on the economic, sociodemographic and environmental situation of the region during a specific time period. This edition contains a selection of summary tables and graphics providing statistical information from a regional perspective. The electronic version includes a greater number of tables, providing more detailed information over a much longer period. This information is part of the statistics available in CEPALSTAT (http: //estadisticas.cepal.org/cepalstat), the statistical databases and publications portal of ECLAC

The Statistical Yearbook for Latin America and the Caribbean presents a set of basic statistics that characterize the economic, sociodemographic and environmental situation of the region in relation to a particular period. This information is part of the set of statistics available at CEPALSTAT, the database portal and statistical publications of ECLAC.

The 1995 edition of the Statistical Yearbook for Latin America and the Caribbean contains a selection, updated to the end of December, of the main statistical series available on economic and social trends in the countries of the region.