The United Nations Statistical Commission, at its twentysixth session held in 1991, after considering a report on the state of the civil registration and vital statistics systems that pointed out their stagnation in the ...

In the area of long-term development perspectives, the ECA has so far prepared two studies. The first long-term perspective study "ECA and Africa's Development; a preliminary perspective study 1983-2008" was prepared to ...

L'activité économique qui avait enregistre une croissance exceptionnelle au cours de l'année 1996 s'est inscrite en baisse en 1997 selon les dernières estimations officielles. Les résultats des comptes nationaux relatifs ...

Le Plan d'action de Lagos souligne l'importance du role que les institutions intergouvernementales africains ont a joué en vue d'aider les pays africains à développer collectivement les moyens et infrastructures indispensables ...

The tenth meeting of the ECA Conference of African Ministers responsible for Economic Planning and Development and the nineteenth session of the Commission took place at Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, headquarters of the Commission, ...

Interest in the efficiency and improvement of civil registration system surfaced, in the African region, during the 1970's. The central focus of this interest was, and continues to be, how to ensure that the system would ...

The thirteenth meeting of the Technical Preparatory Committee of the Whole (TEPCOW) was held at Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, from 13 April to 18 April 1992. The meeting was formally opened by H.E. Dr. Duri Mohammed, Minister of ...

Africa’s positive economic growth during the past two decades has shown its resilience in the wake of the international crisis of 2008. This positive performance, however, has not yet translated into meaningful social ...

The 1989-1990 periods bore a particular significance for ECA's technical co-operation activities in Africa. Not only was the region on the threshold on a new and crucial decade, but also all assessments on its achievements ...

This paper presents, first, an overview to collect vital statistics and rates through the civil registration method, followed by the various approaches to collect fertility, nuptiality and mortality data through population ...