Report of the Statistical Commission on Its 56th Session and Provisional Agenda and Dates of the 57th Session of the Commission

E/DEC/2025/315View PDF

Who adopted this document and its mandates?

A Decision of the Economic and Social Council, under agenda item 19c Statistics, published in 2025.

What other versions does this mandate have?

4 versions · 2023–2026

This is an older version — the most recent is E/DEC/2026/320

Year	Symbol	Title	Word length	Text similarity
2026	E/DEC/2026/320	Report of the Statistical Commission on its 57th session and provisional agenda and dates of the 58th session of the Commission	—	—
2025	E/DEC/2025/315	Report of the Statistical Commission on its 56th session and provisional agenda and dates of the 57th session of the Commission	365	31%Compare
2024	E/DEC/2024/312	Report of the Statistical Commission on its 55th session and provisional agenda and dates of the 56th session of the Commission	737	61%Compare
2023	E/DEC/2023/325	Report of the Statistical Commission on its 54th session and provisional agenda and dates of the 55th session of the Commission	727	–

Which reports were submitted under this mandate?

21 reports · 2023–2025

Year	Symbol	Title	Mandate resolution
2025	E/CN.3/2026/32	Policy decisions of the General Assembly and the Economic and Social Council that are relevant to the work of the Statistical Commission report of the Secretary-General	E/DEC/2025/315
2025	E/CN.3/2026/10	Environment and climate change statistics report of the Secretary-General	E/DEC/2025/315
2025	E/CN.3/2026/24	Gender statistics report of the Secretary-General	E/DEC/2025/315
2025	E/CN.3/2026/25	Disability statistics joint report of the Secretary-General, the Washington Group on Disability Statistics and international agencies on disability statistics	E/DEC/2025/315
2025	E/CN.3/2026/33	World Statistics Day report of the Secretary-General	E/DEC/2025/315

What subjects does this mandate have?

1 subject

Statistics

What’s in this document?

51 operative paragraphs

At its 23rd plenary meeting, on 10 June 2025, the Economic and Social Council:

(a) Took note of the report of the Statistical Commission on its fifty-sixth session;45

(b) Decided that the fifty-seventh session of the Commission would be held in New York from 3 to 6 March 2026;

Election of officers.

Adoption of the annotated provisional agenda and other organizational matters.

Demographic and social statistics:

Demographic statistics;

Gender statistics;

Disability statistics;

Ageing-related statistics and age-disaggregated data;

Refugee statistics;

Health statistics;

Cultural statistics;

Social statistics.

Economic statistics:

National accounts;

Environmental-economic accounting;

41 E/2025/61.

42 E/2025/57.

43 Official Records of the Economic and Social Council, 2025, Supplement No. 6 (E/2025/26).

44 E/CN.5/2025/L.1.

45 Official Records of the Economic and Social Council, 2025, Supplement No. 4 (E/2025/24).

Service statistics;

Agricultural and rural statistics;

Business and trade statistics;

International Comparison Programme.

Natural resource and environment statistics:

Disaster-related statistics.

Governance statistics:

Governance, peace and security statistics;

Statistics of drugs and drug use.

Cross-cutting domains:

Data and indicators for the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development;

Information and communications technology statistics;

Data governance;

Well-being measurement.

Statistical infrastructure and methodology:

Presentation of statistical data and metadata;

Business registers;

Civil registration and vital statistics;

Population and housing censuses;

Data science;

Integration of statistical and geospatial information;

Open data;

International statistical classifications.

Management and modernization of statistical systems:

Data stewardship;

Coordination of statistical activities;

Statistical capacity development;

Fundamental Principles of Official Statistics;

Working methods of the Statistical Commission.

Specific items of the Statistical Commission and the Statistics Division:

Dissemination of statistics through the Statistics Division and its publications;

Follow-up to the policy decisions of the General Assembly and the Economic and Social Council;

World Statistics Day;

Regional statistical development.

Programme questions (Statistics Division).

Provisional agenda and dates of the fifty-eighth session of the Commission.

Report of the Commission on its fifty-seventh session.

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