The Arab region is in crisis and it is easy to succumb to pessimism about its future. This report, however, embraces a vision of hope: one that illustrates the many ways in which the region can act to ensure its future security and prosperity.

Welcome to ESCWA Statistical Information Portal (ESIP). It has been developed by the Statistics Division (SD) as the main electronic dissemination platform for all our statistical output on the Arab region.

This publication provides important information and graphical analysis related to gender equality and empowerment of women in the Arab region. It includes sex-disaggregated data and gender-sensitive indicators needed for gender analysis.

The website of the Arab Population and Housing Censuses (APHC) is a knowledge base of census methodological materials, questionnaires, guidance to countries on implementation population census according to the international standards and recommendations.