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Annual Report 2024

Explore our portfolio of international projects for 2024, 26 March 2025 8:00 , By , Klaus Munch Haagensen, Our Annual Report 2024 takes stock of the activities and outcomes of all our international projects in International Consulting throughout the year., In 2024, the second phase of our Strategic Sector Cooperation (SSC) projects in Ghana and Morocco progressed further, while the SSC project in Vietnam concluded its first phase and prepared for Phase II in 2025. These projects are financed by the Danish Ministry of Foreign Affairs., Our EU-funded projects remained active in Jordan, Bosnia and Herzegovina (BiH), and the Pan-African Statistics project (PAS II). Meanwhile, our project in the Turkish Cypriot Community, also funded by the EU, concluded in mid-2024. Detailed descriptions of all individual projects are available in the annual report., Beyond a summary of our major project achievements, the report features a special article on the importance of statistics in a development context. Statistics play a vital role in evidence-based decision-making, ensuring effective resource allocation, and promoting transparency and accountability. From tracking social progress to empowering citizens, statistical data is essential for shaping policies that drive real-world change., As part of the Framework Program for Phase II of the SSC, Statistics Denmark has launched a new initiative to support other Danish authorities in their development efforts through data and statistics. This initiative, called “SIAM”, is funded through the SSC program by the Danish MFA, with a budget of 4 million DKK for 2024-2027. More details on this initiative can be found in the annual report., We extend our sincere gratitude to our partner statistical bureaus, embassies, NGOs, and other stakeholders who contributed to our projects in 2024. A special thank you to the EU and the Danish Ministry of Foreign Affairs for their continued financial support., Read the full report here, , available in both web and printable versions.

https://www.dst.dk/en/consulting/news-from-international-consulting/2025/26-03-2025-Annual-report-2024

Bosnia-Herzegovina 2021-2023

Statistics Denmark is implementing an EU-financed Twinning project in Bosnia and Herzegovina in cooperation with the national statistical institutions of Finland, Sweden and Italy. The project runs from March 2021 to March 2023., The beneficiary institutions are:, Agency for Statistics of Bosnia and Herzegovina, Institute for Statistics of the Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina, Institute for Statistics of Republika Srpska, Central Bank of Bosnia and Herzegovina, Indirect Taxation Authority of Bosnia and Herzegovina., The overall objective of the project is to increase the volume of statistical data in/for BiH and further increase the compliance with EU Acquis, with the specific objective to strengthen the statistical system institutional capacities and to further harmonise statistics in BiH with EU standards by improving business statistics, balance of payments, agriculture and labour market statistics and to improve reporting/statistics on collected indirect taxes., In general, the project addresses six independent components:, Component 1 - Business Statistics, with four subcomponents, Component 2 - Agricultural Statistics, Component 3 - Administrative Data Sources , Component 4 - Labour Market Statistics, Component 5 - Balance of Payment Statistics – Central Bank, Component 6 - Macroeconomic Analysis Unit of the Governing Board of the Indirect Taxation Authority, You can read more about the project on Facebook: EU Twinning - Further Support to the Reform of Statistics System in BiH

https://www.dst.dk/en/consulting/projects/bosnia-herzegovina2021-2023

Data science team from Ghana wins UN Datathon 2023

Data Science Team from Ghana got 1st Place overall and also the prizes for Best Youth Team, Best Visualization and Best Team from Sub-Saharan Africa., 22 January 2024 11:00 , , Competing against over 400 teams from all over the world, the GSS team got 1, st, Place overall and also the prize for Best Youth Team, Best Visualization and Best Team from Sub-Saharan Africa. The challenges at the Datathon was to create “an innovative data solution which tackles local sustainable development challenges”. The solution should accelerate progress towards the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals using open source data sets and have a geospatial element., The Data Science Team produced an interactive tool which provide decision-makers with information about school enrollment, access to electricity and access to information on a local level based on night light data sources and data from the 2021 Population and Housing Census. The Data Science Team of the GSS was formed in 2022 to strengthen the use of Data Science and ICT at the Ghana Statistical Services. During 2022 and 2023, Statistics Denmark has worked closely with the team building skills in R and showcasing how administrative data can be turned into official statistics., Together with Statistics Denmark the Data Science Team created the , Statsbank Ghana, , forming the base of the Population and Housing Census Atlas., We have made a small video presenting the Data Science Team and it’s work. , Video on the Data Science Team - 3:30 minutes, , Read more about the Datathon and the winners on the official UN Datathon website here., The Datathon was supported by the UN Committee of Experts on Big Data and Data Science for Official Statistics. , You can find the UN-homepage with datathon essentials here.

https://www.dst.dk/en/consulting/news-from-international-consulting/2024/22-01-2024-data-science-team-from-ghana-wins-un-datathon-2023

Pushing statistical production based on administrative data – on all levels

Pushing statistical production based on administrative data – on all levels., 22 August 2023 12:00 , , At the same time as Danish experts in Vietnam together with the General Statistical Office (GSO) worked on creating statistical indicators based on administrative micro data, an international conference on “Data ecosystem management, data governance, and data stewardship” took place. Participants were Vietnamese ministries, international institutions, representatives from the private sector and national statistical offices., The full day conference displayed experiences of data integration and cooperation between authorities for the production of high quality official statistics through presentations and discussions. Presentations were held by the national statistical offices of Denmark, Singapore, South Korea, Japan and Thailand. Likewise the international organizations ESCAP and UNFPA contributed with presentations., The conference ended in a lively discussion between the Vietnamese public institutions and the international participants. The conference is considered a valuable leverage to Statistics Denmark’s ongoing efforts to support the modernization and digitalization of the production of official statistics in Vietnam through the Strategic Sector Cooperation program financed by the Danish Ministry of Foreign Affairs., You can read more about the SSC-project in Vietnam here.

https://www.dst.dk/en/consulting/news-from-international-consulting/2023/22-08-2023-Pushing-statistical-production-based-on-administrative-data

Annual Report 2021

The Annual Report 2021 for International Consulting is out!, 1 March 2022 7:00 , , Are you interested in understanding how statistics is a precondition to monitor a green transition? And how we at Statistics Denmark strive to provide relevant capacity building globally focused on for example the System of Environmental-Economic Accounting?, Get to know our in-house experts and their experience travelling the world. How is Karin Blix’s experience working with our partner in Morocco on quality principles in statistics? Together with the Danish Embassy in Morocco., What motivated Martin Sædholm Nielsen and Martin Birger Larsen to work on the Consumer Price Index in Ghana together with Ghana Statistical Service?, Read about our key achievements in 2021 in Georgia, Bosnia & Herzegovina, Vietnam, Ghana, Morocco and many more., Explore the content of our upcoming actives in Northern Cyprus and Africa together with Statistics France, Expertise France, Statistics Finland, Statistics Spain and Statistics Poland. , The report contains key updates, expert stories as well as photos and videos about our projects., Many thanks to all our partner statistical bureaus, NGO’s and other stakeholders that are involved. We look forward to continue the journey. , You can find the report here - also available in a printable version.

https://www.dst.dk/en/consulting/news-from-international-consulting/2022/01-03-2022-annual-report-2021

Closing the Twinning project in Georgia

The EU funded Twinning project ‘Strengthening the Capacity of the Georgian Statistical System (GE 16 ENI ST 06 18)’ is coming to a close after a period of 32 months. On the 24th November the project had a closing event to formally celebrate the project and its achievements. The day after the final steering committee meeting took place. , 1 December 2021 14:30 , , The project addressed 4 different components:, Foreign Trade including asymmetries (read our article here: , https://www.dst.dk/en/consulting/news-from-international-consulting/2021/19-10-2021-asymmetries-in-statistics-on-international-trade-in-goods, ) , National Accounts , Business Statistics , And Social Statistics , Like all other projects we have been heavily influenced by the pandemic – ultimately resulting in a 8 month extension of the project. But through Zoom the project has managed to work efficiently through the pandemic. Over the last couple of months the project has taken full advantage of relaxed travel restrictions and worked “face to face” in Georgia, Denmark and the Czech republic., Reports and material generated by the project is available from , www.dst.dk/georgia, Pictures from the projects can be found on , https://www.facebook.com/EUTwinningGeostat, A big thank you to GEOSTAT and our partners in the project Statistics Finland, Statistics Lithuanian, Hungarian Central Statistics Office and the Czech Statistical Office., Watch the video below about the Twinning project in Georgia:

https://www.dst.dk/en/consulting/news-from-international-consulting/2021/01-12-2021-Closing-the-Twinning-project-in-Georgia

A population and Housing Census in the making

Ghana is conducting a digitalized survey based Housing and Population Census for the first time and is also the first country to do so in West Africa., 7 September 2021 12:00 , , A cooperation between Statistics Denmark and Ghana Statistical Service aims at strengthening official statistics in Ghana. Therefore, Statistics Denmark follows the Housing and Population Census going on this year in the country., It is the first time ever that Ghana conducts a digitalized survey based Housing and Population Census and the first country to do so in West Africa., , A total of 75.000 enumerators have now completed the data collection for the census and the immense work around data cleaning, processing, analysis and publication has begun. , The next ambition is to strengthen the use of administrative data in the country. This will make it, less expensive and labour intensive to conduct the next decennial census and ensure access to timely and accurate statistics for politicians and civilians alike., Statistics Denmark is supporting this process and Ghana’s journey towards a modernized statistical infrastructure. Have a look at our newly produced video about the cooperation supported by the Danish Ministry of Foreign Affairs: , https://www.dst.dk/en/consulting/projects/ghana-morocco-and-vietnam-2019-2022, Read Danish? , Then have a glance at the newly published paper about the Strategic Sector Cooperation in GlobalNyt: , https://globalnyt.dk/content/ghanas-hemmelige-vaaben-i-kampen-verdensmaalene-data, Want to know more? , Watch the video below about the Strategic Sector Cooperation in Ghana between Statistics Denmark and Ghana Statistical Service

https://www.dst.dk/en/consulting/news-from-international-consulting/2021/07-09-2021-A-Population-and-Housing-Census-in-the-making

Statistics Denmark signs new project with Vietnam

Today the Director General at Statistics Denmark, Birgitte Anker, joined a project signing ceremony marking a long-term collaboration between Statistics Denmark, the Danish Embassy of Vietnam and the General Statistics Office of Vietnam. , 26 November 2021 13:30 , , The Danish Ministry of Foreign Affairs finances the project titled “Support to Vietnam’s ongoing efforts to improve the quality of official statistics”. It will play an important role in the process towards informed decision-making in Vietnam and support at least four areas:, Modernizing the data collection methods for population and migration statistics , Developing education statistics with the ambition that specific education sectors will have an informed platform, on which to base daily operations and future developments, Introducing Big Data as a new data source in Vietnam , Developing environmental-economic accounts to report on the environmental-related SDGs , At the ceremony, Birgitte Anker among others said: “We continue to be impressed by the remarkable work from our Vietnamese counterparts. We hope that the cooperation will create more knowledge on the Vietnamese society for evidence-based decision-making and support international agendas like the SDGs“. , Apart from Birgitte Anker, the signing ceremony was represented by the Director General at the General Statistics Office of Vietnam, Ms. Nguyen Thi Huong, and the Danish Ambassador to Vietnam, Kim Højlund Christensen. , We look forward to continue the fruitful collaboration!

https://www.dst.dk/en/consulting/news-from-international-consulting/2021/26-11-2021-Statistics-Denmark-signs-new-project-with-Vietnam

Data Fair in Ghana

Statistics Denmark has participated in the ‘Data Fair’ in Accra, Ghana. Here parliamentarians met with Ghana Statistical Service to discuss the crucial role of data and statistics for decision-making. , 31 May 2021 13:00 , , We have been to Ghana - at least on video. The event took place from May 26-28, th, with our engagement as part of the Strategic Sector Cooperation, funded by the Danish Ministry of Foreign Affairs. At the ‘Data Fair’, parliamentarians met with Ghana Statistical Service to discuss the crucial role of data and statistics for decision-making., , Director for Social Statistics, Niels Ploug is speaking on line from Copenhagen, Denmark. , Photo: Harrison Ofori, , As part of the ‘Data Fair’ Director for Social Statistics, , Niels Ploug, , spoke about the relevance of using administrative data for the production of statistics in a video shot at Statistics Denmark. Our colleagues at the Embassy of Denmark, Ghana, were attending the event. , An inventory of administrative data for the production of statistics is based on a digitalisation of administrative procedures. This requires political decisions to modernise the administration of sectors like population registration and give the statistical agency unlimited access to data. And positively, in the key notes of the Ghana Speaker of Parliaments, Alban Kingsford Sumana Bagbin, announced that “if we have data, let us go with data”. , Denmark has produced population statistics based on administrative data since the 1970’s and therefore our experts at Statistics Denmark are pleased to assist Ghana, through the Strategic Sector Collaboration, in their development of statistics based on administrative data. The process of digitalising the registration of birth and death and establishing the Ghana Card is essential and a good place to start. A bold vision would be for the upcoming 2021 Population and Housing Census to be replaced by administrative data for 2031 Census.,

https://www.dst.dk/en/consulting/news-from-international-consulting/2021/28-05-2021-Data-fair-in-Ghana

Supervisory Board

Statistics Denmark is managed by a supervisory board with the Director General in the chair, and it includes seven other members. The supervisory board establishes its own rules of procedure and appoints one of its members as vice-chair. By law, the supervisory board chaired by the Director General is responsible for the following:, The overall strategy and financial management of Statistics Denmark, while the Director General has the sole responsibility for defining the professional criteria for development, collection, compilation and dissemination of Statistics Denmark’s statistical output., The professional independence of the official statistics and of the institution of Statistics Denmark., Consideration and decisions in matters of interest to the strategic management of the institution, including work programme, statistical programme and budget. Decisions as to the extent and ways of collecting data from the business community, including for the purpose of implementing EU and national legislation. In this way, the supervisory board is responsible for the reporting task imposed by Statistics Denmark on the business community., Via the work programme and statistical programme, decisions about the data that public authorities and institutions must submit to Statistics Denmark., Members of the Board, Martin Ulrik Jensen (chair), Director General, David Dreyer Lassen (vice-chair), Professor at the University of Copenhagen, Ida Sofie Jensen, Group Executive Director of the Danish Association of the Pharmaceutical Industry, Mads Bryde Andersen, Professor at the University of Copenhagen, Rikke Hougaard Zeberg, Director General, Agency for Climate Data, Anne Lawaetz Arhnung, Former CEO, Danish Agriculture & Food Council, Lars Andersen, Director of the Economic Council of the Labour Movement, Signe Krogstrup, Member of the Board of Governors, Danmarks Nationalbank

https://www.dst.dk/en/OmDS/organisation/bestyrelsen