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This publication includes statistical information on population, work, education, health, housing and basic services, poverty and income distribution, and gender. It also contains economic statistics on international trade, balance of payments and domestic prices, as well as national accounts. It presents quantitative information available on the environment referring to physical conditions, land cover, biodiversity, environmental quality, energy, biological, and water resources, air emissions, extreme natural events and disasters, environmental regulation and governance, and settlements.

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United Nations Publications is the official publisher for the UN and it produces over 400 titles each year. The range of subjects covered are as varied as the issues being tackled by the UN as it works for a better world for all. Since the first printing of the UN Charter, this publishing unit has been providing valued information to those in government, academia and business

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