Demographic Yearbook: Volume 58, 2006

This international compendium of national demographic statistics is designed to supply basic statistical data on 230 countries or areas for such users as demographers, economists, public-health workers and sociologists. The Demographic Yearbook 2006 is the fifty-eighth in a series published by the United Nations. It contains general tables including a world summary of selected demographic statistics, statistics on the size, distribution and trends in national population, natality, foetal, infant, maternal and general mortality as well as nuptiality and divorce.