The Thirteenth Meeting of the Statistical Conference of the Americas of ECLAC took place in Santiago, Chile, from November 25 to 27, 2025. The meeting was chaired by the Dominican Republic in its capacity as Chair of the Conference's Executive Committee for the 2024-2025 biennium.

The Member States reviewed the results of the 2024-2025 Biennial Program of Regional and International Cooperation Activities. Proposals for new working groups for the 2026-2027 biennium were presented and approved. Finally, the countries approved the 2026-2035 Strategic Plan of the Statistical Conference of the Americas of ECLAC, which will serve as a regional framework to guide the strengthening, modernization, and cooperation of national statistical systems in Latin America and the Caribbean, with the aim of promoting the production and use of high-quality, comparable, and accessible official statistics for the region's sustainable development.

During the conference, the following key topics were addressed to strengthen national statistical systems in the region:

• Challenges in data governance and administration in evolving national ecosystems
• Measuring development beyond GDP: challenges and opportunities

During the Conference’s closing session, Uruguay took over as Chair of the Statistical Conference of the Americas for the 2026-2027 period. The new Executive Committee is also made up of the Bahamas, Belize, the Dominican Republic, Guatemala, Honduras, Peru and Spain.

Program and materials

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