The State Statistical Committee of the Republic of Azerbaijan participated in the 57th session of the United Nations Statistical Commission and the High-Level Forum on Official Statistics.

The fifty-seventh session of the United Nations Statistical Commission and the High-Level Forum on Official Statistics, focusing on Beyond GDP were held in New York from 2 to 6 March 2026. Vahab Mammadov, First Deputy Chairman of the State Statistical Committee of the Republic of Azerbaijan, attended the events.

21 items were submitted for discussion at the session, and 10 informational items were considered. During the four-day session issues on working methods of the Statistical Commission, social and demographic statistics, housing statistics, health statistics, agricultural statistics, business and trade statistics, service statistics, environment and climate change statistics, business registers, national and environmental-economic accounting, data governance, data and indicators for the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, well-being measurement, presentation of statistical data and metadata, dissemination of statistics and open data, statistical capacity development, regional statistical development were discussed, as well as items on ageing-related statistics and age-disaggregated data, refugee, internally displaced persons and statelessness statistics, disaster-related statistics, governance statistics, international statistical classifications, integration of statistical and geospatial information were considered for discussion and information was provided on the reports on economic statistics, gender statistics, disability statistics, culture statistics, information and communications technology statistics, International Comparison Programme, data science, coordination of statistical programmes, follow-up to the policy decisions of the UN General Assembly and the Economic and Social Council and World Statistics Day. At the High-Level Forum on Official Statistics, issues related to the development of a unified set of indicators, based on the global indicator framework of the Sustainable Development Goals and providing a more comprehensive and broader characterization of sustainable development achievements compared to GDP and other traditional macroeconomic indicators, were considered.