Acknowledgements

This publication has been prepared under the general direction of Hubert Escaith, Chief Statistician. Andreas Maurer was responsible for the coordination of the statistical report, and Vuddha Meach supervised the overall table, chart and map production, with the assistance of Jonathan Enrique Ford, Xuexue Luo and Ying Yan. The statistical research and data compilation were conducted by Barbara d’Andrea-Adrian, Christophe Degain, Joscelyn Magdeleine, Yann Marcus, Coleman Nee, Ninez Piezas-Jerbi and Bekele Tamenu.