Moldova ranks 19th in the world and 3rd among Eastern European countries in terms of accessibility and openness of official statistics.
These results were published by the Open Data Watch - Open Data Inventory (ODIN), which has been annually assessing the availability and openness of official statistics around the world since 2015. This year, the assessment was carried out on the official websites of national statistical offices of 187 countries of the world. In Moldova, experts evaluated the official website of the National Bureau of Statistics (http://www.statistica.gov.md) and the Statistics Database (http://statbank.statistica.md). Having received 73 out of 100 possible points, the Moldovan statistical office took the 19th place in the world ranking, ahead of the USA (22nd place). Bulgaria (25), Georgia (31), Romania (36), Ukraine (44), Russia (58), China (155) and other countries. The first place in the rating is taken by Singapore (91 out of 100 points), and the top 10 also includes Poland, Finland, Denmark, Sweden, Holland, Slovenia, Norway, Mongolia and Slovakia. The Open Data Registry (ODIN) evaluates the availability and openness of data produced by national statistical systems. Accessibility is assessed against 65 key indicators from 22 categories of statistics in the social, economic and environmental areas. It is also assessed that openness is the availability of free access for the use and processing of statistical data in electronic form. In terms of the first indicator Moldova received 57 points, the second indicator - 86 points out of 100 possible. In general, there is a high level of both availability and openness of the following data in our country: inflation, government finance, banking indicators, foreign trade, balance of payments, population and vital statistics, reproductive health, resource use, pollution. At the same time, statistics on food security and nutrition are completely absent in Moldova, and it is also registered insufficiently high availability of statistics in the field of agriculture and land use, estimates of the level of poverty and income of the population. // 11.12.2020 - InfoMarket.
