The Statistical Office of the Republic of Serbia has released its new national DevInfo database, updated as of April 2010. The latest database release contains a rich set of 334 human development indicators, aimed to monitor Serbia’s progress towards the Millennium Development Goals, Poverty Reduction Strategy and National Plan of Action for children. The database can be accessed online at devinfo.stat.gov.rs/ or downloaded as a desktop edition from devinfo.stat.gov.rs/rzsdevinfo/downloadse5.htm.

for learning, gender parity indexes, enrolment, attendance and completion rates), environment (water and sanitation facilities, housing conditions), health (family planning, HIV/AIDS, child morbidity and care), technology (computers, radio sets), child nutrition (breastfeeding, malnourishment), child protection (child labour, child discipline, early marriage), social services (child allowance and accommodation in social institutions, children with disabilities, family support, foster care, pensions) and women empowerment (proportion of women in total number of employees).

DevInfo is a powerful database system for monitoring human development endorsed by the United Nations Development Group (UNDG) to assist countries in monitoring achievement of the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs). To learn how to use the DevInfo Serbia online database to search for and view human development data, please visit www.devinfo.org/di_elearning_5.0.html for a series of user-friendly e-learning courses.

For more information, please contact Jovanka Stojanović, Head of the Unit for Social Indicators, at jovanka.stojanovic@stat.gov.rs or Petar Vujnovic and Vladica Jankovic, DevInfo Database Administrators, Statistical Office of the Republic of Serbia at petar.vujnovic@stat.gov.rs and vladica.jankovic@stat.gov.rs.