​​The MDPS rolled out yesterday on its website www.gsdp.gov.qa a webpage of World Statistics Day which will be celebrated by the world countries on October 20, 2015 under the slogan “Better Data. Better Lives”.
The World Statistics Day celebration comes upon request of the UN General Assembly, during its 69th ordinary meeting held on June 03, 2014 in New York, when all the member-states were invited to celebrate this occasion once each five years.   
The celebratory webpage features the events to be organized by the MDPS on the occasion of this important day such as the organization of the World Statistics Day Forum on the 20th of this October, when the findings of the Simplified Census of Population, Housing, ad Establishments 2015 will be announced. This Census was conducted by the MDPS in cooperation with MMUP.