Stat of the week: case fatality ratio of COVID-19 in the Pacific Islands for the period March 2020 to January 2021
1%: The case fatality ratio* of COVID-19 in the Pacific Islands for the period March 2020 to January 2021 (* this is the proportion of people who die among all individuals diagnosed with the disease).
Stat of the week: Birth registration in Tonga
97.7%: Tonga maintains near universal birth registration, as confirmed by results from their latest Multiple Indicator Cluster Survey (MICS).
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Stat of the week: Total cumulative cases of COVID-19 in the Pacific in 2020
25 260: Total cumulative cases of COVID-19 in the Pacific in 2020 (11 countries recorded no cases of COVID-19).
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Stat of the week: School Infrastructure in the Cook Islands and Niue
100%: All schools in the Cook Islands and Niue have access to adapted infrastructure and materials for students with disabilities.
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Stat of the week: crude birth rate in Solomon Islands in 2020
30.3 births per 1000 made the Solomon Islands the Pacific country with the highest estimated crude birth rate in 2020...
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Stat of the week: Vanuatu population in 2020
2.3%: Vanuatu has the highest estimated population growth rate across the Pacific in 2020 of 2.3%.
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What is SPC? - Presentation of the SPC's Statistics for Development Division
SPC Talks: The role of Statistics in Pacific development programmes
In this conversation from the "SPC Talks" series, Alison Carrington, Australia's Consul-General in Noumea, Dr Stuart Minchin, SPC Director-General and Epeli Waqavonovono, Director of the SPC's Statistics for Development Division discuss the role of…
From the Pacific to the global stage: QGIS* manual now available in five languages
What was initially a Pacific training resource is now a global tool, thanks to the collaboration between the Pacific Community (SPC) and the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA).