Foreword

The Demographic Yearbook is prepared by the Statistical Office of the United Nations. It presents population, natality, mortality, nuptiality, divorce, and migration statistics, life-table values, an explanatory chapter of "Technical Notes on the Statistical Tables," and a Bibliography, together with country and subject indexes. The statistical series are those received by means of questionnaires from the statistical administrations or appropriate government offices of all the geographic units or "countries" of the world, supplemented where necessary and feasible by data from national official publications. With the exception of the statistics of international migration, which are furnished by the International Labour Office, all the series are collected by the Statistical Office.

Related Subject(s): Population and Demography