Global sustainability statistics are benchmarks for measuring the status of sustainability parameters. The following agencies provide baseline data for sustainability governance. They are just one form of data used for sustainability accounting and are valuable for assessing trends and measuring progress.

This list provides sources of statistics at the global level of governance only.

* General lists

Meadows, D.H., Randers, J. & Meadows, D.L. 2004. Limits to growth: the 30-year update. Chelsea Green Publishing Company, White River Junction, USA.

The CIAs World Fact Book

World Data Center

United Nations Environmental Indicators Also publications on environmental statistics and statistical methods.

Water (water resources, water supply industry, waste water)

Air pollution (SO₂ & NO_x),

Climate change (greenhouse gas emissions; by sector(absolute & percentage); CO₂ emissions; CH₄ & N₂O emissions)

Waste (municipal waste collection, treatment, hazardous waste)

Land use (total land area by country, forest area by country, agricultural area by country).

European Commission (Eurostat)

* Biodiversity

Groombridge, B & Jenkins, M.D. 2002. World Atlas of Biodiversity. UNEP World Conservation Monitoring Centre.

* Energy

BP Statistical Review of World Energy

The International Energy Agency. Key World Energy Statistics

UN Energy Statistics Database

* Fisheries

UN Food and Agriculture Organisation.

* Forests

UN Food and Agriculture Organisation.

* Fertilizer

International Fertilizer Industry Association

* Food and agriculture

UN Food and Agriculture Organisation. FAOSTAT

* Population

United Nations Population Division

United Nations Database

Population Reference Bureau

American Association for Advancement of Science

* Water

International Water Management Institute

Stockholm International Water Institute

United Nations Environmental Program

Global Runoff Data Centre

See also

• Sustainability accounting
• Sustainability science
  Sustainability science
  Sustainability science has emerged in the 21st century as a new academic discipline. This new field of science was officially introduced with a "Birth Statement" at the World Congress "Challenges of a Changing Earth 2001" in Amsterdam organized by the International Council for Science , the...
  
  
• Sustainability governance

• Sustainability
  Sustainability
  Sustainability is the capacity to endure. For humans, sustainability is the long-term maintenance of well being, which has environmental, economic, and social dimensions, and encompasses the concept of union, an interdependent relationship and mutual responsible position with all living and non...
  
  
• Sustainable development
  Sustainable development
  Sustainable development is a pattern of resource use, that aims to meet human needs while preserving the environment so that these needs can be met not only in the present, but also for generations to come...