For nearly one hundred and forty years, The Statesman's Yearbook has been relied upon to provide accurate and comprehensive information on the current political, economic and social status of every country in the world. The appointment of the new editor - only the seventh in the book's history - brought enhancements to the 1998-99 edition and these have been continued since then. The 2003 edition is fully updated and contains more information than ever before, including for the first time websites for national governments and international organizations. A foldout colour section provides a political world map and flags for the one hundred and ninety two countries of the world. In an endlessly changing world, the annual publication of The Statesman's Yearbook gives all the information you need in one easily digestible single volume. It will save hours of research and cross-referencing between different sources, and it is an essential annual purchase.

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'On the desert island of the imagination this title should certainly be up there with the Bible and Shakespeare.' - Parliamentary Maritime Review

'A classic reference work.' - Reference Reviews

'Perfect companion.' - The Times

'You need more than one of everything because no information is value-free - except perhaps The Statesman's Yearbook, a masterpiece of pure quantification.' - Victoria Glendinning, The Daily Telegraph

'The book should be in every office which is concerned with world trade and, indeed, in every school which produces the future traders. It is an essential tool of all global thinking.' - The Geographical Magazine

'An excellent parlour game for librarians would be to work out which ten reference books a library ought to buy if it could afford only that number. Very probably the Statesman's Yearbook would be on the list...This invaluable yearbook needs no commendation from me, but I do not hesitate to give it one anyway.' - K.C. Fraser, Formerly Senior Assistant Librarian, St Andrew University Library, Reference Reviews

About the authors

BARRY TURNER is the seventh editor in the 139-year history of The Statesman's Yearbook. He has a PhD in Political History and has been a full-time writer for 30 years. He has worked as a journalist and broadcaster in the field of politics, biography, travel and education, and is the author of over 20 books including the best-selling A Place in the Country, which became a television series, ...And the Policeman Smiled, the story of ten thousand refugee children who escaped to Britain just before the war, and (co-authored) When Daddy Came Home - How Family Life Changed Forever in 1945. He is a regular contributor to The Times as a book reviewer and serialiser, and is the editor of the annual Writer's Handbook.

Bibliographic Information

Book Title: The Statesman's Yearbook 2003
Book Subtitle: The Politics, Cultures and Economies of the World
Editors: Barry Turner
Series Title: The Statesman's Yearbook
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230271319
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan London
eBook Packages: Palgrave Political & Intern. Studies Collection, Political Science and International Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Macmillan Publishers Limited 2002
eBook ISBN: 978-0-230-27131-9Published: 30 December 2016
Series ISSN: 0081-4601
Series E-ISSN: 2524-812X
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: 1760
Topics: Political Science, World History, Global and Transnational History, Economics, general, International Business, World Regional Geography (Continents, Countries, Regions), Economic Geography

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