General Data Dissemination System (GDDS)

Palau is a participating country in the International Monetary Fund (IMF) General Data Dissemination System (GDDS) Project. This is a new statistical capacity building initiative of the IMF, which draws on the GDDS framework to improve statistics of member countries. It promotes collaboration with other bilateral, regional and multilateral agencies, and is funded, in part, by Japan and the United Kingdom.

The following reviews and data availability assessments have been undertaken: 

Frameworks and Data Categories Documents & Size in pdf
(Draft)Review of Palau Statistical System

[263KB]

Data Integrity

[26KB]
Comprehensive Frameworks
National accounts

[33KB]
Central government operations

[35KB]
Depository corporations survey

[22KB]
Balance of Payments

[38KB]
Data Categories and Indicators
National accounts aggregates
Production index
Price indexes

[26KB]
Labor market indicators

[23KB]
Employment

[24KB]
Unemployment

[24KB]
Central government

[30KB]
Central government debt

[26KB]
Broad money and credit aggregates

[21KB]
Central bank aggregates

[20KB]
Interest rates

[24KB]
Stock market

[19KB]
Balance of Payments aggregates

[33KB]
External debt and debt service schedule

[25KB]
International reserves

[21KB]
Merchandise trade

[26KB]
Exchange rates

[21KB]
Population

[28KB]
Education

[25KB]
Health

[25KB]
Poverty

[26KB]