Luciano Cohan

@luciano

Co-Fundador de Alphacast. Ex Subsecretario de Programación Macroeconómica. Data Science. Creando una plataforma para el trabajo colaborativo en economías

  • The Australian Bureau of Statistics is Australia's independent national statistical agency, with origins dating back to 1905. It is responsible for the country's entire official statistical program — from the national accounts and the five-yearly Census of Population and Housing to labour, health, environment, agriculture and social statistics. Its price statistics program, anchored by the quarterly Consumer Price Index and complemented since 2022 by the Monthly CPI Indicator, sets the reference for inflation measurement in Australia.
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  • The Bank of Israel, established in 1954, is the central bank of the State of Israel, responsible for monetary policy, financial stability and the management of foreign reserves. Beyond its policy role it is a principal compiler of the country's macroeconomic and external-sector statistics — balance of payments, exchange rates, foreign trade prices and the terms of trade — published through its statistical portal as the authoritative record of Israel's external accounts.
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  • The Bank of Korea, established in 1950, is South Korea's central bank and one of the country's principal statistical compilers: beyond monetary policy, it is responsible for Korea's national accounts, balance of payments, flow of funds and producer price statistics. Its ECOS (Economic Statistics System) is among the most comprehensive central-bank data platforms in Asia, with thousands of series documenting Korea's transformation from post-war reconstruction to advanced economy, many reaching back to the 1960s.
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  • The Bank of Thailand, established in 1942, is the kingdom's central bank and one of Southeast Asia's most established monetary institutions. It compiles Thailand's external sector statistics — trade in goods and services on a balance-of-payments basis, international reserves and capital flows — together with extensive monetary and financial statistics published through its open data portal, the reference record for an export-driven economy at the heart of regional supply chains.
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  • Badan Pusat Statistik is Indonesia's national statistical agency, a non-departmental institution reporting directly to the President. It runs one of the world's most logistically demanding statistical operations, collecting data across an archipelago of 17,000 islands and 38 provinces — covering the census, national accounts, poverty and welfare surveys, agriculture, trade and regional statistics. Its monthly Consumer Price Index, compiled from price surveys in 90 cities, is Indonesia's headline inflation measure.
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  • The Bureau of National Statistics, under the Agency for Strategic Planning and Reforms, is the central statistical authority of Kazakhstan and the steward of the statistical system inherited and rebuilt after independence. It covers the full official program of Central Asia's largest economy — national accounts, prices, industry and mining, agriculture, demographics and regional statistics — and conducts the national population census.
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  • The Census and Statistics Department, established in 1967, is the statistical arm of the Hong Kong SAR Government. It compiles the official statistics of one of the world's leading financial and trading centres — national accounts, merchandise and services trade, banking and finance, labour, population censuses and by-censuses. Its Composite Consumer Price Index, with sub-indices tracking households across the expenditure distribution, is Hong Kong's reference inflation measure.
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  • The Central Bank of Kuwait, established in 1969, is the monetary authority of one of the world's wealthiest oil exporters, managing the Kuwaiti dinar — long among the highest-valued currencies globally. It compiles the country's monetary, banking and external sector statistics, including the quarterly balance of payments and foreign trade accounts that trace how hydrocarbon revenues flow through one of the Gulf's major sovereign-wealth economies.
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  • The Central Bank of the Russian Federation is the monetary authority of the world's eleventh-largest economy and, since the suspension of most customs data publication in 2022, the principal remaining official source for Russia's external accounts. Its quarterly balance of payments — covering trade in goods and services, current account and reserves — is the key window into how sanctions, energy flows and trade reorientation are reshaping the Russian economy.
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  • The Central Bank of Sri Lanka, established in 1950, is the monetary authority of Sri Lanka and the country's principal compiler of economic statistics. Beyond monetary policy and currency issuance, it publishes the external sector accounts — trade, remittances, reserves and balance of payments — that took centre stage through the 2022 external crisis and the subsequent IMF-supported recovery, alongside national accounts and financial sector statistics.
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  • The Central Bureau of Statistics, founded in 1949 with the State of Israel itself, is the country's independent national statistical agency, operating under the Prime Minister's Office. Its program spans the economy, society and population — national accounts, censuses, immigration, technology and innovation, prices and the labour market. Its Consumer Price Index carries unusual institutional weight: it is the contractual reference for Israel's deeply indexed economy, from government bonds to rental contracts.
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  • The Central Statistical Bureau is Latvia's national statistical agency and the coordinator of its official statistical system, fully integrated into the European Statistical System since EU accession. Its program covers the whole of Latvian economic and social life — national accounts, prices, industry, trade, demographics and regional statistics — published through a modern open-data portal, with the Consumer Price Index among its flagship monthly releases.
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  • The Department of Statistics Malaysia, established in 1949, is the country's national statistical agency, led by the Chief Statistician of Malaysia. Its remit covers the complete official program — national accounts, censuses, trade, industry, labour, demographics and state-level statistics — and it has become one of Southeast Asia's open-data leaders through its OpenDOSM platform. Its monthly price statistics, including the Consumer Price Index and the Producer Price Index, anchor inflation measurement in Malaysia.
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  • The Department of Statistics, established in 1949, is the official statistical agency of the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan and the backbone of its national statistical system. It conducts the population and housing census and the kingdom's major household and establishment surveys, and compiles national accounts, trade, employment, agriculture and demographic statistics. Its monthly Consumer Price Index is Jordan's reference measure of inflation.
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  • The Direction Générale des Douanes et Droits Indirects is France's customs administration, an institution whose lineage traces to the ferme générale of the Ancien Régime. Beyond border control and indirect taxation, it compiles France's official foreign trade statistics, published monthly through its Kiosque portal — the primary record of merchandise flows for the eurozone's second-largest economy, feeding both national accounts and European aggregates.
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  • The Directorate-General of Budget, Accounting and Statistics, under Taiwan's Executive Yuan, holds an unusually broad mandate: it prepares the central government budget, sets public accounting standards, and directs the entire national statistical system. As Taiwan's statistical authority it compiles the national accounts, censuses, employment and earnings statistics, and industry data for one of the world's key technology-manufacturing economies, with the Consumer Price Index and Producer Price Index among its benchmark monthly releases.
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  • The Federal Statistical Office (Statistisches Bundesamt, Destatis) is Germany's national statistical institute, coordinating official statistics across the federal and Länder statistical offices. Its program spans the national accounts, censuses, prices, labour and the foreign trade statistics of Europe's largest economy — among the most consequential data releases in the eurozone.
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  • The Federal Statistical Office (Bundesamt für Statistik), based in Neuchâtel, is the national statistical centre of Switzerland, coordinating official statistics across the Confederation, the cantons and the communes. Its program spans the economy, population, health, education, mobility and the environment, alongside one of Europe's longest-running and most stable price statistics traditions: the Swiss Consumer Price Index (LIK/IPC), the reference for one of the world's lowest-inflation economies.
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  • FUNCEX is a Brazilian non-profit research foundation, established in 1976, dedicated to the study of international trade and trade policy. It is best known for its price and quantity indices of Brazilian exports and imports — the reference series used by economists and the central bank to track the volume and terms of trade of Latin America's largest economy. Its indices are distributed publicly through IPEADATA, the open database of the Institute for Applied Economic Research (IPEA).
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  • The Statistical Center for the Cooperation Council for the Arab Countries of the Gulf, headquartered in Muscat, is the official regional statistical office of the six GCC member states — Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, Kuwait, Qatar, Bahrain and Oman. It harmonises and consolidates the region's national statistics into comparable indicators across the economy, trade, energy, population and social affairs, providing the unified statistical picture of a bloc that anchors global energy markets.
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  • The General Authority for Statistics is the sole official statistical reference of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, with a mandate covering the census, national accounts, labour market, trade, prices and the expanding program of social and economic surveys that underpin Vision 2030's reform agenda. Its modernisation drive has made it one of the region's most data-forward agencies, with the monthly Consumer Price Index and Wholesale Price Index among its headline indicators for the G20's largest Arab economy.
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  • The Ghana Statistical Service is the central statistical agency of Ghana and the coordinator of the country's National Statistical System. It conducts the population and housing census and the major household and economic surveys, and compiles the national accounts, prices, labour and external-trade statistics of one of West Africa's leading economies, increasingly published through its StatsBank open-data platform.
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  • The Haut-Commissariat au Plan is Morocco's central statistical and economic-planning authority, responsible for the census, national accounts, employment surveys and the country's economic forecasting. It compiles the prices, foreign-trade and demographic statistics that underpin national policy, and is among the more open statistical institutions in North Africa, disseminating detailed series including external-trade price and terms-of-trade indices.
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  • The Institut National de la Statistique is the central body of Tunisia's national statistical system, responsible for the census, national accounts, employment and household surveys, and the country's economic and demographic statistics. A statistical tradition dating back to independence makes it one of North Africa's established statistical institutions; its monthly Indice des Prix à la Consommation is Tunisia's official inflation gauge.
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  • Japan Customs, under the Ministry of Finance, administers the country's border regime and compiles the Trade Statistics of Japan — one of the world's longest-running and most timely customs-based trade records, with monthly data reaching back to the 1950s. Beyond enforcement and tariff administration, its statistical publications (provisional figures within three weeks of month-end) are the primary measure of trade for the world's fourth-largest exporter and a key early signal for Asian trade cycles.
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  • The Ministry of Finance of Taiwan oversees the public finances, the customs administration and the tax system of one of the world's pivotal trading economies. Through its Department of Statistics it publishes Taiwan's official trade statistics — among the most watched monthly releases in global technology supply chains, given the island's centrality in semiconductors — alongside fiscal revenue and customs data.
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  • The National Bank of the Republic of Kazakhstan is the central bank of Central Asia's largest economy, responsible for monetary policy, the tenge and financial stability. It is also the country's compiler of external sector statistics — balance of payments, international investment position, external debt and trade in goods and services on a BPM6 basis — making it the authoritative source for how Kazakhstan's oil-driven external accounts evolve.
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  • The National Bureau of Statistics is the coordinator of Nigeria's National Statistical System and the authoritative source of official data on Africa's most populous nation and one of its largest economies. Its program ranges from GDP rebasing exercises and trade statistics to the large-scale household and living-standards surveys that underpin poverty and labour measurement across 36 states. Its monthly CPI report, with state-level inflation detail, is among the most consequential data releases in West Africa.
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  • The National Statistics Committee (formerly the State Statistics Committee) is the official statistical agency of Uzbekistan, Central Asia's most populous country. As the economy has opened since 2017, the agency has modernised rapidly — expanding open data, adopting international methodologies and publishing the national accounts, prices, demographic and foreign trade statistics that track one of the region's fastest-growing economies.
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  • The National Statistics Office (formerly the General Statistics Office) is Vietnam's national statistical agency under the Ministry of Planning and Investment. It documents one of the world's great trade-led growth stories: its monthly import-export releases track an economy whose merchandise trade now exceeds 160% of GDP, alongside the censuses, national accounts, prices and industrial statistics of a manufacturing hub of 100 million people.
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  • The Pakistan Bureau of Statistics is the central statistical agency of the world's fifth most populous country, formed from the merger of the Federal Bureau of Statistics with the population and agricultural census organizations. It conducts the national censuses and the major household surveys, and compiles prices, national accounts, industry and external trade statistics — the official record of an economy of 240 million people.
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  • The Philippine Statistics Authority, formed in 2013 from the merger of four statistical agencies, is the central statistical institution of the Philippines. Beyond the census, national accounts, agriculture, labour and trade statistics, it holds an unusually broad civil mandate: it runs the country's civil registration and the PhilSys national ID system. Its monthly Consumer Price Index, with detail down to regional and commodity-group level, sets the official inflation measure for one of Southeast Asia's fastest-growing economies.
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  • The Planning and Statistics Authority is Qatar's central statistical agency and development-planning body, combining the national statistics mandate with stewardship of the Qatar National Vision 2030. It publishes the census, national accounts, prices, labour and foreign trade statistics of the world's premier LNG exporter — an economy whose monthly trade surpluses rank among the largest per capita anywhere.
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  • The Reserve Bank of New Zealand (Te P?tea Matua), established in 1934, is the country's central bank and a pioneer of modern inflation targeting. Alongside monetary policy and financial stability it publishes a deep body of monetary, financial and external-sector statistics — including trade, balance-of-payments and terms-of-trade series — that document the external accounts of one of the world's most commodity-trade-dependent advanced economies.
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  • The Singapore Department of Statistics, under the Ministry of Trade and Industry, is the national statistical authority and coordinator of Singapore's decentralised statistical system. It compiles the national accounts, censuses, trade, business and household statistics of one of the world's most open economies, maintaining series of exceptional historical depth — its Consumer Price Index reaches back six decades to the early years of independence.
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  • The Statistical Office of the Republic of Serbia is the country's national statistical authority and the coordinator of its official statistics, aligned with the European Statistical System as Serbia advances EU accession. Its program spans the national accounts, prices, labour, demographics and external trade — including the import, export and terms-of-trade indices published through its SDMX-based dissemination portal.
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  • The Statistics Bureau of Japan, under the Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications, is the core of Japan's official statistical system. It conducts the Population Census and the country's major household surveys, and compiles fundamental national statistics on population, labour, housing and consumption. Its monthly Consumer Price Index, published through the e-Stat portal, is Japan's reference inflation measure and a key input to Bank of Japan policy.
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  • Statistics Denmark (Danmarks Statistik), with roots in 1850, is the central authority of Danish official statistics and an early pioneer of fully register-based statistics — most Danish data is compiled from administrative registers rather than surveys. Its program spans the national accounts, population, prices, labour and external trade of one of the world's most open and digitised economies, published through the StatBank open database.
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  • Statistics Estonia is the national statistical agency of Estonia and a fixture of the country's celebrated digital state: it pioneered register-based statistics, conducting censuses largely from administrative data rather than field enumeration. Its program covers the full European statistical acquis — national accounts, prices, business, social and environmental statistics — delivered through modern open APIs, with the Consumer Price Index among its core monthly indicators.
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  • Statistics Finland (Tilastokeskus), founded in 1865, is one of the world's oldest national statistical agencies and the coordinator of Finland's official statistics. Its program spans the economy, population, society and the environment, with a strong tradition of methodological research and open data through the StatFin service. Its consumer price statistics carry full classification depth and link to cost-of-living series stretching back generations.
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  • Statistics Iceland (Hagstofa Íslands) is the national statistical institute of Iceland, responsible for the full official program of one of the world's smallest advanced economies — national accounts, population, fisheries, tourism, social and price statistics. Few statistical series anywhere carry the contractual weight of its Consumer Price Index: Iceland's mortgages and bonds are pervasively CPI-indexed, making each monthly release a direct input into household balance sheets.
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  • Statistics Netherlands (Centraal Bureau voor de Statistiek), founded in 1899, is the autonomous national statistical institute of the Netherlands and one of Europe's methodological reference agencies — an early adopter of register-based statistics, big-data sources and scanner data in price measurement. Its program covers the whole of Dutch economic and social life through the StatLine platform, with the Consumer Price Index and the European harmonised HICP among its benchmark releases.
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  • Statistics Norway (Statistisk sentralbyrå), established in 1876, is Norway's independent national statistical institute and unusual among peers for housing its own economic research department, whose models inform national policy. Its official program spans the petroleum economy, national accounts, population registers, social and environmental statistics; its consumer price statistics offer rare granularity, with COICOP detail down to individual product groups.
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  • Statistics Poland (G?ówny Urz?d Statystyczny), established in 1918 with the rebirth of the Polish state, is the central statistical office of the EU's largest eastern economy. It conducts the national censuses and compiles the national accounts, prices, labour and foreign trade statistics that document Poland's transformation into a manufacturing and trade powerhouse — with regional statistics spanning sixteen voivodeships and a statistical tradition that survived war and partition.
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  • Statistics Sweden (Statistiska centralbyrån), founded in 1858, is one of the world's oldest statistical agencies and a pioneer of register-based official statistics. It covers the full breadth of Swedish economic and social life — national accounts, population registers, prices, labour and foreign trade — published through one of Europe's most open statistical databases, with methodological standards that have long served as international reference.
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  • Stats NZ (Tatauranga Aotearoa) is New Zealand's national statistical office and the seat of the Government Chief Data Steward, giving it system-wide leadership over how the public sector collects and uses data. Its program covers the census, national accounts, environmental-economic accounting — where it has been an international pioneer — and the full range of economic and social statistics, with the quarterly Consumers Price Index as the country's official inflation benchmark.
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  • The Swiss National Bank, founded in 1907, is Switzerland's central bank, conducting the country's monetary policy and managing one of the world's largest foreign-reserve portfolios relative to GDP. Through its data portal it publishes an extensive body of monetary, banking, balance-of-payments and external-trade statistics — including foreign-trade price and terms-of-trade indices — for one of the world's most open and trade-intensive advanced economies.
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  • The Trade Policy and Strategy Office, under Thailand's Ministry of Commerce, is the agency entrusted with the kingdom's official price statistics — a mandate that in Thailand sits with the commerce ministry rather than the national statistical office. It compiles and publishes the Consumer Price Index and the Producer Price Index, the country's headline inflation measures, alongside trade-policy analysis that informs Thailand's commercial strategy.
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  • UN Comtrade is the United Nations International Trade Statistics Database, maintained by the UN Statistics Division. It is the world's most comprehensive repository of official trade data: over 200 reporting countries and territories submitting detailed merchandise and services trade by commodity and partner, with annual records reaching back to 1962. Virtually every cross-country trade analysis — academic, institutional or commercial — runs on Comtrade as its backbone, making it the canonical reference for bilateral flows and the standard fallback where national statistical offices do not publish directly.
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