ISO in figures for the year 2009

(at 31 December)
International

January 2010
Organization for
Standardization

Central Secretariat
1, ch. de la Voie-Creuse
Case postale 56
CH-1211 Genève 20
Members 162 national standards bodies,
Switzerland comprising
Telephone
+ 41 22 749 01 11 105 member bodies
Fax
+ 41 22 733 34 30
47 correspondent members
E-mail 10 subscriber members
[email protected]
Web
www.iso.org
Technical 3 238 technical bodies,
Committee comprising
structure
210 technical committees
519 subcommittees
2 443 working groups and
66 ad hoc study groups
For details, see ISO Memento

Staff 39 member bodies provide the

administrative and technical
Technical
services for the secretariats
secretariats
of committees of the ISO
technical programme
These services involve
a full-time staff equivalent of
500 persons

Central 153 full-time staff from

Secretariat in 26 countries coordinate the worldwide
Geneva activities of ISO

Financing 140 million CHF per year is the

estimated cost for the operation
of committee secretariats financed
39 by member bodies holding these
secretariats
35 million CHF represents
the operational cost of the
ISO Central Secretariat financed
55% through membership fees
45% through sales of publications and
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 Development
of
International
Standards
Total at 18 083 International Standards and
31 December standards-type documents
2009
These standards represent
a total output of
737 945 pages in English and French
(terminology is also often provided
in other languages)

in 2009 1 038 International Standards and

standards-type documents
published
This output represents
a total of
57 204 pages for 2009

Work in
progress
in 2009 1 257 new projects (work items)
registered

Total at 3 769 work items appear

31 December on the programmes of work
2009 of the technical committees

The breakdown is as follows:

1 036 work items at preparatory stage
969 committee drafts
1 764 draft International Standards (DIS)
and final draft International
Standards (FDIS)

For details, see

ISO CataloguePlus on CD-ROM
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PRODUCTION BY TECHNICAL SECTOR
Sectors as based on the WORK ITEMS INTERNATIONAL STANDARDS
International Classification for Standards (ICS) New Total New No. of pages Total No. of pages
Generalities, infrastructures and sciences 71 423 106 6 485 1 601 64 568
Health, safety and environment 52 190 69 3 203 734 29 491
Engineering technologies 271 1 062 245 10 836 4 937 223 394
Electronics, information technology and telecommunications 310 704 216 20 408 2 902 206 057
Transport and distribution of goods 156 363 93 3 362 1 957 55 646
Agriculture and food technology 50 118 75 2 763 1 054 26 286
Materials technologies 262 745 203 7 703 4 373 114 269
Construction 75 139 27 2 287 380 14 632
Special technologies 10 25 4 157 145 3 602
TOTAL 1 257 3 769 1 038 57 204 18 083 737 945

New : between 1 January and 31 December 2009 – Total : at 31 December 2009

PROPORTION BY SECTOR (by percent) OF TOTAL OUTPUT

100% 90% 80% 70% 60% 50% 40% 30% 20% 10%
Generalities, infrastructures and sciences 11.2
Generalities/Terminology/Standardization/Documentation (01) –
Services/Company organization, management and quality/Administration/Transport/Sociology (03) –
Mathematics/Natural sciences (07) 8.9

Health, safety and environment 5.0

Health care technology (11) –
Environment/Health protection/Safety (13)
4.1

Engineering technologies 28.2

Metrology and measurement/Physical phenomena (17) – Testing (19) – Mechanical systems and components
for general use (21) – Fluid systems and components for general use (23) – Manufacturing engineering (25) –
Energy and heat transfer engineering (27) – Electrical engineering (29) – Precision mechanics/Jewellery (39) 27.3

Electronics, information technology and telecommunications 18.7

Electronics (31) – Telecommunications/Audio and video engineering (33) –
Information technology/Office machines (35) –
Image technology (37) 16.0

Transport and distribution of goods 9.6

Road vehicle engineering (43) – Railway engineering (45) – Shipbuilding and marine structures (47) –
Aircraft and space vehicles engineering (49) – Materials handling equipment (53) –
Packaging and distribution of goods (55) 10.8

Agriculture and food technology 3.1

Agriculture (65) –
Food technology (67)
5.8

Materials technologies 19.8

Textile and leather technology (59) – Clothing industry (61) – Chemical technology (71) – Mining and minerals (73) –
Petroleum and related technologies (75) – Metallurgy (77) – Wood technology (79) – Glass and ceramics
industries (81) – Rubber and plastics industries (83) – Paper technology (85) – Paint and colour industries (87)
24.2

Construction 3.7
Construction materials and building (91) –
Civil engineering (93) 2.1

Special technologies 0.7

Military engineering (95) –
Domestic and commercial equipment/Entertainment/Sports (97)
0.8

Note – Figures in brackets correspond to ICS fields. Work items International

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 ISBN 978-92-67-10519-2 © ISO, 2010-02/1 000
Meetings 8 technical meetings are in progress,
on average, each working day of
in 2009
the year somewhere in the world
823 technical meetings were held in
45 countries,comprising
120 meetings of technical committees
264 meetings of subcommittees
439 meetings of working groups
or ad hoc groups

Liaisons 597 international organizations are

in liaison with ISO technical
committees and subcommittees

Electronic Complete information on

access to ISO’s standardization activities
technical (including the ISO Memento and
information the ISO Catalogue,) is available
from ISO Online, accessible
on the Web at the following
address: www.iso.org

Users will find here

18 083 bibliographic data items on
ISO International Standards
3 769 bibliographic data items on
draft ISO International Standards.
Through ISO Online, by accessing
World Standards Services Network
(WSSN), users can also access
information on standardization
developments within a number of
international, regional and national
standardizing bodies and on
some bibliographic data related to
700 000 standards, technical regulations and
other standards-type documents
from all over the world.

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