Nearly every country in the world has set a central public sector unit entirely devoted to the production, harmonisation and dissemination of
official statistics that the public sector and the national community need to run, monitor and evaluate their operations and policies. This central statistical organisation does not produce every official statistic as other public sector organisations, like the national
central bank or
ministries in charge of agriculture, education or health, may be charged with producing and disseminating sector policy oriented statistical data. The statistical
legislation and regulation generally attribute responsibilities and authorities according to statistical domains or functions in addition to those of the central unit. The table below lists these central statistical organisations by country. The
United States has no central producing unit, but several units (also listed below) have been given responsibility over various federal statistics domains (see also:
Federal Statistical System of the United States).
Africa Americas Asia Europe (Institutions from countries marked with * are members of
Eurostat's European Statistical System (ESS).)
Oceania ==Autonomous statistical services at sub-national level==