Statistical year book: annuaire statistique (1996)

This issue of the UNESCO Statistical Yearbook has been prepared by the Division of Statistics with the co-operation of the National Commissions for UNESCO, national statistical services and other national agencies.
In accordance with article VIII of the Constitution of UNESCO, each Member State is requested to report periodically to the Organization on its laws, regulations and statistics relating to its educational, scientific and cultural life and activities. Data are gathered mainly from official replies from some 200 countries and territories to UNESCO questionnaires and special surveys but also from official reports and publications, supplemented by information available to the Secretariat from other national and international sources, in particular from the Statistical Division and the Population Division of the United Nations. Where available data differ from the recommendations adopted or other concepts and definitions employed by UNESCO, the statistical practice of the country is respected and explained in a footnote where possible.
The explanatory texts to the tables, presented in English, French and Spanish, are included with the texts at the beginning of each chapter, except for Chapter 3, where these texts can be found at the end of each individual table. As an aid to Arabic- and Russian speaking readers of the Yearbook, the introductory texts to each chapter have been translated into these two languages and can be found in Appendices F and G of the Yearbook.