Key Indicators (KI) for Asia and the Pacific Series

2020 opened the Decade of Action, an effort to speed up SDGs delivery by 2030. But it was also a year of global crisis. COVID-19 slowed progress, threatening to undo previous gains and highlighting the urgency to achieve the 2030 agenda.

This publication sets out a framework for measuring the importance of the digital economy in national and global production processes.

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).

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.

This special supplement to the Key Indicators for Asia and the Pacific 2020 discusses how poverty estimates can be enhanced by integrating household surveys and censuses with data extracted from satellite imagery. 

This report discusses the role computer-assisted personal interviewing (CAPI) can play in transforming survey data collection to allow better monitoring of the Sustainable Development Goals.

In developing Asia, the number of people living in extreme poverty declined from 1.1 billion in 2002 to 264 million in 2015. The vital data within Key Indicators are now accessible in a digitized format, with the new Key Indicators Database.

This report showcases the role that technology can play in improving the quality, timeliness, and frequency of agricultural statistics in Asia and the Pacific.

Asia and the Pacific accounted for 42.6% of global GDP at purchasing power parity in 2017, up from 30.1% in 2000. Around 780 million people from the region moved out of extreme poverty from 2002 to 2013.

Asia and the Pacific accounted for 40.9% of global GDP in 2016, up from 29.4% in 2000. The People’s Republic of China, India, and Japan accounted for about 70% of the region’s total output in 2016.