At its 51st session in March 2020, the United Nations Statistical Commission launched its efforts to prepare for World Statistics Day (WSD) to be celebrated on October 20 of this year. This is the third WSD, following the first one held in 2010 and the second one in 2015.
Ahead of the World Statistics Day, countries and regions as well as international organizations will implement activities to advocate the importance of official statistics. These activities will be available at the United Nations World Statistics Day 2020 website.
Promotional video featuring the World Statistics Day
The Office of the Director-General for Policy Planning on Statistical Policy, the Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications (MIC), Government of Japan has been making activities for advocating the World Statistics Day.
First of all, the Office produced a movie promoting the World Statistics Day on the YouTube Channel of the Statistics Bureau of Japan.
It is available on this page. (subtitled in Japanese and English)
Other Promotional Activities
In addition to the movie, the Office has also been making other activities, as follows.
The Office has produced a poster (refer to the image at right) and a plastic folder featuring the WSD logo in order to promote the day in Japan.
High resolutional poster image is available here.
Moreover, a Japanese version of the WSD logo translated by the Office is shared on the United Nations World Statistics Day 2020 website.
Regarding activities for World Statistics Day 2015 in Japan, please refer to this page