Stats SL’s Temporal Headquarters, 1B King Street, Kona Lodge, Freetown.
28/2/25
The Statistician General of Sierra Leone, Andrew Bob Johnny, has departed the country to participate in the 56th Session of the United Nations Statistical Commission, set to take place from March 4 to 7, 2025, in New York, USA.
The annual gathering brings together global statistical leaders to discuss pressing issues in data governance, national accounts, the Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) Indicator framework, population and housing censuses, and food security and nutrition, among others.
This year’s session is highly significant, as it will feature a high-level forum on official statistics on March 3, focusing on the crucial topic of data governance. Additionally, a special seminar on emerging issues, which is scheduled for February 28, will explore strategies for building statistical capacity worldwide.
Leading up to the event, a series of virtual side events have been organized under the theme “Road to the Statistical Commission.” These discussions aim to set the stage for key deliberations at the main session.
The Statistician General is expected to engage in high-level discussions and contribute to enhancing global statistical standards that will impact national development policies.
As Sierra Leone prepares itself to undertake the decennial population and housing census, the SG is accompanied in New York by the Director of Censuses and GIS, Abdulai Brima, and the Director of Data Science, Theophilus Blaudfaust. It is hoped that critical meetings with international partners and other census bodies will put Sierra Leone on a firm footing to kick off the 2030 global round of censuses.
