Contributing
organisations
Asian
Development
Bank
(ADB) African
Development
Bank
(AfDB)
Bank
for
International
Settlements
(BIS) Eur opean
Central
Bank
(ECB)
Eur ostat
Food
and
Agricultur e
Organization
of
the
United
Nations
(F AO) International
Civil
Aviation
Organization
(ICAO)
International
Labour
Organization
(ILO) International
Organization
for
Migration
(IOM)
Interstate
Statistical
Committee
of
the
Commonwealth
of
Independent
States
(CISST A T) Office
of
the
United
Nations
High
Commissioner
for
Human
Rights
(OHCHR) Organisation
for
Economic
Co-operation
and
Development
(OECD)
Partnership
in
Statistics
for
Development
in
the
21st
Century
(P ARIS21) The
Statistical
Center
of
the
Gulf
Cooperation
Council
(GCC-STA T) United
Nations
Childr en’ s
Fund
(UNICEF)
United
Nations
Conference
on
T rade
and
Development
(UNCT AD) United
Nations
Department
of
Economic
and
Social
Af fairs
(UN
DESA) United
Nations
Development
Pr ogramme
(UNDP)
United
Nations
Economic
and
Social
Commission
for
Asia
and
the
Pacific
(UN
ESCAP) United
Nations
Economic
Commission
for
Africa
(UNECA)
United
Nations
Economic
Commission
for
Latin
America
and
the
Caribbean
(ECLAC) United
Nations
Educational,
Scientific
and
Cultural
Organization
(UNESCO)
United
Nations
Entity
for
Gender
Equality
and
the
Empowerment
of
W omen
(UN
W omen) United
Nations
Envir onment
Pr ogramme
(UNEP)
United
Nations
High
Commissioner
for
Refugees
(UNHCR) United
Nations
Human
Settlement
Pr ogramme
(UN
Habitat) United
Nations
Industrial
Development
Organization
(UNIDO) United
Nations
Office
on
Drugs
and
Crime
(UNODC)
United
Nations
Statistics
Division
(UNSD)
United
Nations
W orld
T ourism
Organization
(UNWTO) Universal
Postal
Union
(UPU)
W orld
Bank
Gr oup
(WBG)
W orld
T rade
Organization
(WTO)
1
The
Committee
for
the
Coor dination
of
Statistical
Activities
(CCSA)
The
CCSA
is
comprised
of
international
and
supranational
organizations
whose
mandates
include
the
pr ovision
of
international
of ficial statistics
guided
by
the
Principles
Gover ning
International
Statistical
Activities
( https://unstats.un.org/unsd/ccsa/principles_stat_ac - tivities/)
and
which
have
a
permanent
embedded
statistical
service
that
maintains
regular
contact with
countries.
The
mandate
of
the CCSA
is
to
ensur e
the
ef ficient
functioning
of
the
international
statistical
system,
to
assist
Gover nments
in
the
development
of
common statistical
standar ds,
platforms
and
methodologies,
and
to
pr ovide
inter -institutional
support,
outr each
and
advocacy
for
high-quality of ficial
statistics.
Mor e
information
can
be
found
on
the
CCSA
webpage:
https://unstats.un.org/unsd/ccsa/
2
Intr oduction
W e
are
pleased
to
pr esent
the
thir d
volume
of
“How COVID-19
is
changing
the
world:
a
statistical
perspective”.
Since
the
r elease
of
the
first
volume
in
May
2020,
the
COVID-19
pandemic
has
continued
to
rage
ar ound
the
world.
By
mid-Mar ch, 2021,
countries
ar ound
the
globe
had
r eported
over
123
million
cases—a
nearly
five-fold
incr ease
since
this
r eport’ s
pr evious volume—and
over
2.7 million
deaths
attributed
to
the
disease.
And
while
new
case
loads
are
curr ently
on
the
rise
again,
the
global health
community
has
alr eady
administer ed
almost
400
million
doses
of
vaccines,
at
last
of fering
some
signs
of
hope
and
pr ogr ess.
Nonetheless,
the
pandemic
continues
to
pr esent
daunting
challenges
for
gover nments
and
international
organizations.
Economic impacts
thr eaten
to
undo
decades
of
r ecent
pr ogr ess
in
poverty
r eduction,
child
nutrition
and
gender
equality , and
exacerbate
ef - forts
to
support
refugees,
migrants,
and
other
vulnerable
communities.
National
and
local
gover nments—together
with
inter nation - al
and
private-sector
partners—must
deploy
vaccines
as
ef ficiently , safely
and
equitably
as
possible
while
still
monitoring
for
new outbr eaks
and
continuing
policies
to
pr otect those
who
do not
yet
have
immunity . Economic
recovery
ef forts
are
also
incr easingly urgent
as
the
world
begins
to
pivot
to
a
“post-pandemic” r eality . It
is
becoming
incr easingly
clear
that
choices
made
over
the
next months
and
years
could
have
impacts
for
generations
to
come.
Mor e
than
ever , the
world
needs
r eliable
and
trustworthy
data
and
statistics
to
inform
these
important
decisions.
The
United
Na - tions
and
all
member
organizations
of
the
Committee
for
the
Coor dination
of
Statistical
Activities
(CCSA)
collect
and
make
available a
wealth
of
information
for
assessing
the
multifaceted
impacts
of
the
pandemic.
This
r eport
updates
some
of
the
global
and
r egion - al
tr ends
pr esented
in
the
first
and
second
volumes
and
of fers
a
snapshot
of
how
COVID-19
continues
to
af fect
the
world
today across
multiple
domains.
The
r eport
also
highlights
the
impact
of
the
pandemic
on
specific
r egions
and
population
gr oups.
It
has
now
been
over
a
year
since
the
pandemic
began,
and
statistics
are
becoming
available
that
quantify
the
year -on-year
im - pacts
of
this
terrible
crisis
and
begin
to
hint
at
what
a
recovery
and
“post-COVID”
world
might
look
like.
Some
key
findings
include:
• 8.8 percent
of
global
working
hours
wer e
lost
in
2020,
equivalent
to
255
million
full-time
jobs,
an
amount
that
is four
times
gr eater
than
the
job
losses
during
the
2009
financial
crisis.
• COVID-19
is
estimated
to
have
pushed
119-124 million
people
into
poverty
in
2020,
a
substantial
incr ease
fr om earlier
estimates.
• Aviation
passenger
traffic
declined
by
60
percent
in
2020,
while
shipping
activity—as
measur ed
by
vessel
port calls—likely
declined
by
ar ound
10
per cent.
• The
Human
Development
Index
r ecor ded
its
first
dr op since
1990
due
to
the
pandemic,
which
has
erased
de - cades
of
pr ogr ess
in
the
female
labour
participation
rate.
• International
tourism
r ecor ded
its
worst year
ever
on
r ecor d;
international
tourism
declined
by
74
per cent.
• CO 2
emissions
declined
6
percent
in
2020
largely
attributable
to
r educed
activity
in
aviation
and
transport.
As countries
undertake
recovery
ef forts,
many
are
including
gr een
and
sustainable
targets
in
their
planning.
National
statistical
systems
continue
to
r eport
daunting
challenges
to
the
collection
of
essential
data
and
production
of
basic
sta - tistics.
While
many
organizations
have
adapted
their
methods
to
some
degr ee,
the
pandemic
has
underscored
the
need
to
pr ovide sufficient
r esour ces,
moder nize
operations,
and
upgrade
critical
infrastructur e
to
pr ovide
flexibility , particularly
in
times
of
crisis.
Many
mor e
insights
are
pr ovided
in
the
individual
sections
of
this
publication.
As
we
work to
continue
pr oviding
useful
statistical perspectives
on
the
pandemic,
we
also
continue
our
br oader
ef forts
to
make
the
data
itself
mor e
accessible
and
useful.
This volume
is
the
first
in
the
series
to
pr ovide
the
underlying
r eport
data
in
free
and
open
formats.
Wher e
available,
these
r esour ces
are indicated
with
an
icon
and
website
link
at
the
end
of
their
r espective
chapters.
Some
sections
also
pr ovide
source
code.
Lastly , we
would
like
to
again
give
special
thanks
to
the
CCSA
secr etariat
(Statistics
Division
of
UN
DESA)
and
to
the
team
at
the W orld
Bank
for
its
ef forts
to
edit
this
collection
of
statistical
information
and
curate
the
underlying
data.
W ithout
their
commitment and
dedication,
this
r eport
would
not
have
been
possible.
Angela
Me
Chief,
Resear ch
and
T r end
Analysis
Branch UNODC
Co-chair
CCSA
Haishan
Fu
Dir ector , Development
Data
Gr oup W orld
Bank
Co-chair
CCSA
#StatisticalCoor dination
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T able
of Contents
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A time for international collaboration and co-investment (WBG + UNSD)
........................................... 8 Global credit turns toward domestic borrowers (BIS)
...................................................................... 14 Increase of the pandemic emergency purchase programme (ECB)
.................................................... 16 2020 passenger totals drop 60 percent as COVID-19 assault on air travel continues (ICAO)
................. 18 Labour markets disrupted on a historically unprecedented scale (ILO)
............................................... 20 COVID-19 impacts at the local levels (UN Habitat)
.......................................................................... 22 Maritime tr affic
in times of pandemic (UNCTAD)
................................................................................................................ 24 Global manufacturing production has stabilized, but with industrialized economies are experiencing a delayed recovery (UNIDO)
................................................................ 26 2020: the worst year on record for tourism (UNWTO)
.................................................................................................... 28 Disruption of the international postal supply chain (UPU)
................................................................. 30 COVID-19 estimated to have pushed 119-124 million people into extreme poverty in 2020 (WBG)
........ 32 World trade developments Q1-Q3 2020 (WTO)
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