Knowledge Database

This table presents the status of National Strategies for the Development of Statistics (NSDS) in International Development Association (IDA) borrower countries, Least Developed Countries, Low and Lower-Middle Income Countries, and some Upper-Middle Income Countries (in order to report on the whole of the African continent), as of March 2018.

This table presents the status of National Strategies for the Development of Statistics (NSDS) in International Development Association (IDA) borrower countries, Least Developed Countries, Low and Lower-Middle Income Countries, and some Upper-Middle Income Countries (in order to report on the whole of the African continent), as of March 2018.

The Internet and World Wide Web have become the principal gateway to official statistics distributed by national statistical offices (NSOs) and other government agencies. Almost every NSO maintains a website or data portal—some more than one—that offers access to official statistics. Websites are an efficient means of dissemination because they can distribute large volumes of data at very low cost. However, their effectiveness depends whether data users are aware of the websites or their contents and, if so, whether those users are able to find the information they are seeking.