The UNCTAD Handbook of Statistics was first launched in 1967. Over the past 50 years the handbook has evolved to incorporate new statistics and ensure that readers have access to the best possible information available. The 2021 edition of the Handbook continues in this tradition of excellence and innovation. As in previous years this edition showcases 'nowcasted' estimates for total merchandised trade total services trade and GDP. This publication provides a wide range of statistics and indicators relevant to the analysis of international trade investment and development.

The UNCTAD Handbook of Statistics was first launched in 1967. Over the past 50 years the handbook has evolved to incorporate new statistics and ensure that readers have access to the best possible information available. The 2018 edition of the Handbook continues in this tradition of excellence and innovation. This year edition introduces ’nowcasted’ estimates for total merchandised trade total services trade and Gross Domestic Product.

The UNCTAD Handbook of Statistics provides a comprehensive reliable coherent and comparable collection of statistical data relevant to the analysis of international trade investment and development for individual countries geographical regions and for selected economic groupings. The publication presents consolidated reference statistics considered of particular importance for describing how developing countries have evolved in the context of globalization for the following subjects: International merchandise trade exports and imports structure by products and by regions of origin and destination and related concentration and diversification indices; volume and unit value indices of exports and imports terms of trade and purchasing power indices of exports; applied import tariff rates; international trade in services exports and imports of services by service categories; world merchant fleet; commodity free-market prices and price indices; international financial data: current account net of balance of payments foreign direct investment migrants’ remittances and indicators of development: gross domestic product and population.The printed edition of the Handbook is a tool for research policy making and education which can also be used in conjunction with the DVD which contains the full time series of data. The DVD presents figures for more economic groupings than the printed version as well as figures for trade and interregional groups.