United Nations Volunteers: UNV volunteers statistics, Dec 2006

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UNV volunteers statistics, Dec 2006

29 December 2006

This table contains basic statistics on UNV volunteers, among others the total number of volunteers, assignments and in which region they are working, as of December 2006.

Total UNV volunteers in service at end of month	5,204
Total No. of assignments in 2006	7,798
Total No. of volunteers in 2006	7,569

Serving UNV volunteers by gender
Male	3,425	65.8%
Female	1,779	34.2%

UNV volunteers by volunteer modality
International UN Volunteers	3,520	67.6%
National UN Volunteers	1,684	32.4%

Number of countries where UNV volunteers are serving	134
Number of countries where UNV volunteers come from	157

Regions where UNV volunteers are serving
Africa	2,864	55%
Arab States	552	10.6%
Asia and the Pacific	903	17.4%
Europe and the CIS	312	6.0%
Latin America and Caribbean	573	11%

Largest UNV operations
Congo, Democratic Republic	783
Liberia	325
Sudan	282
India	222
Cote d'Ivoire	218
Haiti	205
Kosovo	183
Timor-Leste	137
Zambia	134
Burundi	127
Ethiopia	122

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