Members

164 national standards bodies, comprising 111 member bodies, 49 correspondent members, 4 subscriber members.

Development of International Standards

Total at 31 December 2012

Work in progress in 2012

1 583 new projects (work items)
registered. 4 056 work items appeared on the programmes of work of the technical committees. The breakdown was as follows : 1 205 work items at preparatory stage, 955 committee drafts, 1 896 Draft International Standards (DIS) and Final Draft International Standards (FDIS).

Electronic access to technical information

Complete information on ISOs standardization activities (including the ISO Memento and the ISO Catalogue) is available from ISO Online, accessible on the Web at the following address : www.iso.org. Users will find here : 19573 bibliographic data items on ISO International Standards, 4 056 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. For details, see www.iso.org.

19 573nternational Standards and standardstype documents. These standards represented a total output of 832 685 pages in English and French (terminology is also often provided in other languages).

Technical committee structure

3 368 technical bodies, comprising 224 technical committees, 513 subcommittees, 2 544 working groups and 87 ad hoc study groups.

In 2012

1280 International Standards and standardstype documents published. This output represented a total of 77326 pages for 2012.

Meetings
18 technical meetings were in progress,
on average, each working day of the year somewhere in the world. 1 895 technical meetings were held in 47 countries, comprising 157 meetings of technical committees, 373 meetings of subcommittees, 1 365 meetings of working groups or ad hoc groups.

Staff
Technical secretariats

36 member bodies provide the

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

34

Central Secretariat in Geneva

Liaisons
640 international organizations were in
liaison with ISO technical committees and subcommittees.

154 full-time staff from 19 countries coordinate the worldwide

activities of ISO

ISO in Figures 2012

Work Items SECTORS (as based on the International Classification for Standards [ICS]) New Generalities, infrastructures, sciences and services Health, safety and environment Engineering technologies Electronics, information technology and telecommunications Transport and distribution of goods Agriculture and food technology Materials technologies Construction Special technologies TOTAL 110 74 354 383 222 40 314 67 19 1583 % 6.9% 4.7% 22.4% 24.2% 14.0% 2.5% 19.8% 4.2% 1.2% 100.0% Total 698 195 997 714 476 138 669 141 28 4056 Total Work items (%) 17.2% 4.8% 24.6% 17.6% 11.7% 3.4% 16.5% 3.5% 0.7% 100.0% New 103 58 352 268 89 50 242 35 11 1208 % 8.5% 4.8% 29.1% 22.2% 7.4% 4.1% 20.0% 2.9% 0.9% 100.0%

International Standards No. of pages 7595 3510 17462 31583 5202 1123 7906 2488 457 77326 International Standards (%) 9.2% 4.1% 27.4% 16.8% 10.5% 5.7% 23.2% 2.4% 0.8% 100.0% No. of pages 78818 34962 234822 241096 60549 29790 129943 18526 4179 832685

Total 1792 802 5355 3289 2053 1119 4543 461 159 19573

ISO in Figures 2012

Portfolio of ISO standards and Draft International Standards

by technical sector at the end of 2012

Portfolio of ISO standards and Draft International Standards

by technical sector at the end of 2012

Portfolio of ISO standards and Draft International Standards

by technical sector at the end of 2012 (continued)
Annual production

ISO in Figures 2012

i. Data for Portfolio of ISO standards and Draft International Standards by technical sector at the end of 2012
Draft International Standards (DIS) and Final Draft International Standards (FDIS) 467 321 313 260 303 75 89 57 11 1896

SECTOR Engineering technologies Materials technologies Electronics, information technology and telecommunications Transport and distribution of goods Generalities, infrastructures, sciences and services Agriculture and food technology Health, safety and environment Construction Special technologies Grand Total

Published ISO Deliverables in 2009 5355 4543 3289 2053 1792 1119 802 461 159 19573

ii. Year 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012

Data for Yearly production: Number of ISO Deliverables total number of pages (2008-2012)
Number of ISO deliverables 1105 1230 1038 1313 1208 1280 Number of Total pages 57477 69303 57204 53607 75161 76326

ISO in Figures 2012

ISO member bodies contribution to the standards process

(2012-12-31
ISO Members ABNT (Brazil) AENOR (Spain) AFNOR (France) ANSI (USA) ASI (Austria) BELST (Belarus) BIS (India) BOBS (Botswana) BPS (Philippines) BSI (United Kingdom) BSJ (Jamaica) DGN (Mexico) DIN (Germany) DS (Denmark) DSM (Malaysia) DSSU (Ukraine) EOS (Egypt) ESMA (United Arab Emirates) GOST R (Russian Federation) GSA (Ghana) HZN (Croatia) ICONTEC (Colombia) INNORPI (Tunisia) IPQ (Portugal) IRAM (Argentina) ISIRI (Iran, Islamic Republic of) JISC (Japan) KATS (Korea, Republic of) KAZMEMST (Kazakhstan) Number of secretariats (TC/SC) 8 7 67 119 4 0 8 1 0 66 1 0 131 7 5 1 0 0 9 0 0 1 1 1 1 5 67 16 0 Number of convenorships* (WG) 19 15 215 534 19 1 14 1 348 2 369 28 8 4 3 1 4 2 1 10 4 11 3 200 75 1 ISO Members KEBS (Kenya) MSZT (Hungary) NBN (Belgium) NEN (Netherlands) NSAI (Ireland) PKN (Poland) QS (Qatar) SA (Australia) SABS (South Africa) SAC (China) SCC (Canada) SFS (Finland) SII (Israel) SIS (Sweden) SN (Norway) SNV (Switzerland) SNZ (New Zealand) SPRING SG (Singapore) SUTN (Slovakia) TISI (Thailand) TSE (Turkey) TTBS (Trinidad and Tobago) UNI (Italy) UNMZ (Czech Republic) Number of secretariats (TC/SC) 0 0 2 19 0 3 0 21 10 51 16 3 3 25 10 16 0 0 1 0 3 0 17 0 Number of convenorships* (WG) 2 1 37 93 1 1 1 76 10 75 81 10 5 64 37 69 6 3 8 2 2 45 3

ISO in Figures 2012