Key Indicators for Asia and the Pacific 2024: Data for Climate Action

Publication | August 2024
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This publication provides updated statistics on a comprehensive set of economic, financial, social, and environmental measures as well as select indicators for the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).

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  • US$59.00 (paperback)

The report covers the 49 regional members of ADB. It discusses trends in development progress and the challenges to achieving inclusive and sustainable economic growth across Asia and the Pacific. This 55th edition explores the data necessary to guide climate-related policies. It assesses the availability and sufficiency of data on climate change drivers, impacts, vulnerabilities, and strategies for mitigation and adaptation, and emphasizes the need for more geographically granular data.

Part I. Climate Change Data Compilation [click to expand]

The report contains four sections. Section I provides an overview of Asia and the Pacific's progress toward SDG 13 climate action targets and emphasizes the urgent need for action. Section II reviews the state of climate change data compilation and the Global Set of Climate Change Statistics and Indicators, highlighting significant statistical gaps that need to be addressed. Section III highlights the value of geographically granular data for tailored policies, from identifying emission hotspots to pinpointing vulnerable communities. Section IV discusses the need to strengthen statistical capacity on climate change data systems, addressing key challenges, promising initiatives, and essential collaborations to improve the availability, granularity, timeliness, accuracy, and quality of climate change statistics.

Sustainable Development Goals

The SDGs comprise 169 targets across 17 goals to be achieved by 2030. The indicators are presented according to the United Nations SDG global indicator framework.

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Regional Trends

The regional tables are grouped into eight themes: People; Economy and Output; Money, Finance, and Prices; Globalization; Transport and Communications; Energy and Electricity; Environment; and Government and Governance.

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Statistics by Economy

These tables for the 49 ADB regional member economies contain information on a wide range of statistical indicators on population, labor force, national accounts, production and price indexes, energy, money and interest rates, government finance, external trade, balance of payments, international reserves, exchange rates, and external indebtedness.

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Afghanistan PDF XLS
Armenia PDF XLS
Australia PDF XLS
Azerbaijan PDF XLS
Bangladesh PDF XLS
Bhutan PDF XLS
Brunei Darussalam PDF XLS
Cambodia PDF XLS
China, People's Republic of PDF XLS
Cook Islands PDF XLS
Fiji PDF XLS
Georgia PDF XLS
Hong Kong, China PDF XLS
India PDF XLS
Indonesia PDF XLS
Japan PDF XLS
Kazakhstan PDF XLS
Kiribati PDF XLS
Korea, Republic of PDF XLS
Kyrgyz Republic PDF XLS
Lao People's Democratic Republic PDF XLS
Malaysia PDF XLS
Maldives PDF XLS
Marshall Islands PDF XLS
Micronesia, Federated States of PDF XLS
Mongolia PDF XLS
Myanmar PDF XLS
Nauru PDF XLS
Nepal PDF XLS
New Zealand PDF XLS
Niue PDF XLS
Pakistan PDF XLS
Palau PDF XLS
Papua New Guinea PDF XLS
Philippines PDF XLS
Samoa PDF XLS
Singapore PDF XLS
Solomon Islands PDF XLS
Sri Lanka PDF XLS
Taipei,China PDF XLS
Tajikistan PDF XLS
Thailand PDF XLS
Timor-Leste PDF XLS
Tonga PDF XLS
Turkmenistan PDF XLS
Tuvalu PDF XLS
Uzbekistan PDF XLS
Vanuatu PDF XLS
Viet Nam PDF XLS

Additional Details

Type
Series
Subjects
  • Economics
  • Poverty
  • Statistics
Pages
  • 358
Dimensions
  • 8.5 x 11
SKU
  • FLS240399-3
ISBN
  • 978-92-9270-856-6 (print)
  • 978-92-9270-857-3 (PDF)
  • 978-92-9270-858-0 (ebook)

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