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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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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’.

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.

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.