2008 Annual Statistical Report on United Nations Procurement

Procurement from developing countries and countries with economies in transition
General Assembly resolution 57/279 of January 2003 on procurement reform (paragraph 6) encouraged UN organizations to
increase sourcing opportunities for DC/ET suppliers. GA/RES/61/246 of March 2007 (paragraph 24) reiterated this request. In
response, UN agencies have placed more orders with suppliers from these countries. The growth of such orders has more than
doubled in dollar terms from 2004 to <strong>2008</strong>, as shown in Figure 4, below.
954
1,727
1,504
2,090
Although in <strong>2008</strong> procurement from DC/ET increased by $1.5 billion over 2007, their share of overall total procurement
volume decreased by 2.9%. Of note, procurement from DC/ET exceeded 50% of total UN procurement volume in both 2007
(53.6%) and <strong>2008</strong> (50.7%), while procurement from industrialized countries has remained steady at 37.7% in 2007 and 37.8%
in <strong>2008</strong>. Procurement from unspecified countries has risen from $0.8 billion in 2007 to $1.4 billion in <strong>2008</strong>. Countries are
unspecified when agencies cannot attribute the origin of the supplier in their management information systems, as is the case
with WFP’s transportation data which account for $1.2 billion of the procurement from unspecified countries.
60.0%
40.0%
20.0%
0.0%
($Million)
8,000
7,000
6,000
5,000
4,000
3,000
2,000
1,000
0
Figure 4
UN procurement from developing countries and countries with
economies in transition, 2004-<strong>2008</strong>
2,681
3,594
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5,166
2,656
2,510
5,425
2,673
2,752
6,972
3,337
3,635
2004 2005 2006 2007 <strong>2008</strong>
Figure 5
UN procurement from industrialized countries, developing countries and
countries with economies in transition, 2004-<strong>2008</strong>
(as a percentage of the total procurement volume)
2004 2005 2006 2007 <strong>2008</strong>
Services
Goods
Industrialized countries
Developing countries &
countries with economies in
transition
Unspecified Countries