The Statesmans Yearbook 2004

With so many in the ports, shipping, cruising, dredging and marine construction industries required to update their information regularly in an ever changing world, this annual publication delivers most of the information essential to strategic planning in one compact, easy to use volume which can save hours of cross referencing between different sources.

For each of the world’s 192 countries, The Statesman’s Yearbook provides a compacted history, details of geography and demographic trends, details of climate, government, natural resources, international trade, social institutions and much more.

The same team are now also providing regularly updated information on political, economic and cultural affairs around the world online at www. sybworld. com However, this particular edition is sufficiently up to date to chronicle the fall of Baghdad only three months ago and the UN Security Council vote to lift Iraq’s economic sanctions on 22 May.

The Statesman’s Yearbook is regularly reviewed by national newspapers such as the Daily Telegraph, which called it ‘A masterpiece of pure quantification’. Also pertinent, The Geographical Magazine said, ‘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 Statesman’s Yearbook 2004
Edited by Barry Turner.
Published by Palgrave Macmillan.
ISBN 0 333 98097 2.
Hardback, 2,112 pages.
Price £75