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Tracking the flow of food: How the Pacific Food Trade Database is helping with regional planning

February 5, 2026
Food trade plays a vital role in daily life across the Pacific. Many island nations depend on imported food and beverages. This shapes what people eat, how healthy their diets are and how secure their food supply can be.

Pacific tuna and billfish stock assessment results now on Pacific Data Hub

January 30, 2026
The Pacific Data Hub now hosts key fisheries stock assessment results for tuna and billfish species across the Pacific Ocean—a step forward for open data and fisheries science in the region.

Setting the trend: Seventh Pacific Heads of Planning and Statistics

December 4, 2025
On 3 November 2025, Wellington, New Zealand, became the hub for Pacific collaboration as it hosted the seventh conference of the Heads of Planning and Statistics (HOPS)—the first time this event has been held in New Zealand.

Invisibility to inclusion: Pacific-led guidance to transform disability statistics

December 3, 2025
When disability data are missing, so are the people they represent. A new guidebook sets out to change that, making sure everyone is counted and helping build disability-inclusive societies.

Pacific Gender Outlook reveals women’s representation in parliaments one third of global average, and major gaps in meeting other SDGs

November 4, 2025
A new publication produced jointly by UN Women and the Pacific Community (SPC) highlights gender gaps in the achievement of the Sustainable Development Goals across the Pacific.

Pacific senior leaders to ‘set the trend’ on statistics and planning in Aotearoa

October 31, 2025
More than 100 decision-makers from the Pacific and beyond meet in Wellington next week for HOPS7, the region’s highest-level platform for planning and statistics. Co-hosted by SPC and Stats NZ, the week champions Pacific leadership and innovation with the theme ‘Setting the Trend’.

Award-winning storytellers transform Pacific data into past, present and future insights

September 22, 2025
From a conch shell that maps disappearing biodiversity, to an interactive game where players govern the Pacific in 2050: Pacific Dataviz Challenge participants have turned raw numbers into narratives that explore the depth of the region’s open data, its past, present and future.

New e-learning on data cleaning and quality assessment for production of civil registration-based vital statistics

July 31, 2025
A self-paced e-learning course on data cleaning for civil registration-based vital statistics (CRVS) has been launched by the United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (ESCAP) in partnership with the Pacific Community (SPC), Vital Strategies and the Norway Office for National Statistics.