Economic and Social Development

Each issue of the Monthly Bulletin of Statistics (MBS) presents current economic and social statistics for more than 200 countries and territories of the world. Written in French and English it contains over 50 tables of monthly and/or annual and quarterly data on a variety of subjects illustrating important economic trends and developments including population prices employment and earnings energy manufacturing transport construction international merchandise trade and finance. The annual subscription rate for the Monthly Bulletin of Statistics in print includes access to the MBS Online.

This publication (volume LX) presents annual statistics on inland transport (road rail and inland waterways). Data covers Europe Canada and the United States. The 2022 edition provides a series of transport statistics tables for the 56 member States of UNECE. It brings together statistical information on all the modes of transport covered by the Inland Transport Committee (road rail and inland waterways) for all member States of the ECE region. A short summary at the beginning of each chapter provides some key figures on each sector followed by detailed data on each of the statistics sub-categories. The publication is purely statistical in character. Like the previous issues it has been prepared by the Sustainable Transport Division of UNECE with the generous cooperation of national statistical offices. It is issued in accordance with the recommendation of the inland Transport Committee at its first session that the Division should regularly publish the most recent available data on transport for as many countries within the UNECE region as possible.

The data included in this chapter set out road transport statistics for countries where data is available in the ECE region focusing on road infrastructure vehicle fleet sizes and vehicle activity. A selection of summary statistics is presented in this introduction.

In a regional and international context of weak growth high inflation and growing inequality the countries of Latin America and the Caribbean must focus policies on reactivating rebuilding and transforming economic and production systems to advance towards low-carbon and high-tech economies that address climate change and reduce their historical gaps structural heterogeneity and dualism. This document considers the complex conditions that pose significant challenges to accelerating growth tackling high inflation and the cost-of-living crisis maintaining transfers to the most vulnerable households mitigating the social costs of the crisis and boosting investment. Its chapters analyse the dynamics of globalization and the policy challenges in changing the production structure and moving towards sustainable development. In addition they consider strategies for reducing inequality and creating universal protection systems and decent jobs in a challenging world. Nine strategic sectors expected to drive a big push for sustainability are examined through the prism of green growth. The document concludes with policy recommendations for advancing towards a renewed model for inclusive and sustainable growth.

In a highly complex macroeconomic social and environmental context in the region that demands a rethinking of short- and long-term public policies the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) is fulfilling its mandate at its thirty-ninth session by presenting the countries of the region with a proposal for economic reactivation and transformation of development models in Latin America and the Caribbean.