Timor-Leste

The Global AIDS Response Progress Reporting (GARPR) system collects data from countries worldwide on a set of indicators intended to measure HIV prevention, treatment, care, and support. The system is also used to collect information on WHO/UNICEF Universal Access in the Health Sector Indicators, including information on syphilis testing at antenatal clinics. All of these indicators can be found in the multiagency HIV Indicator Registry managed by the Joint United Nations Program on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDs).

Designed as standardized tool to collect data on tobacco use among youth in countries around the globe, the GYTS is a school-based survey of students aged 13-15 years. It provides a uniform methodology for constructing a sample frame, selecting schools and classes, preparing questionnaires, conducting fieldwork, and managing, processing, and analyzing data. Composed of 56 core questions, the GYTS questionnaire covers topics such as young people’s knowledge and attitudes about smoking, prevalence of tobacco use, the role of advertising and media in tobacco use, and access to cigarettes.

The Susceptibility of Plasmodium Falciparum to Antimalarial Drugs: Report on Global Monitoring 1996-2004 presents an overview of antimalarial drug efficacy for more than 60 countries during 1996-2004. The report also discusses drug efficacy monitoring criteria and how therapeutic efficacy tests can help inform national malaria treatment policies. Data in the report come from the WHO global antimalarial drug efficacy database, which collects data from three main sources: published data obtained from other databases, unpublished data obtained from reports by ministries of health and other governmental organizations, and raw data from surveillance studies conducted following WHO Guidelines. The report includes figures with treatment failure and success rates aggregated by WHO region and subregion. An annex with a summary of results for the efficacy of antimalarial drugs is also included. 

The 2015 Timor-Leste Population Census was conducted in July 2015.  The total population at the time of the census was 1,167,242, a 9.46% increase from 2010.