Bhutan

In response to a request from the National Statistics Bureau (NSB), a South Asia Regional Training and Technical Assistance Center (SARTTAC) national accounts statistics technical assistance (TA) mission visited Thimphu, Bhutan during June 19–23, 2017. This mission was SARTTAC’s inaugural national accounts statistics TA mission to Bhutan; it followed a mission that was conducted by the IMF’s Statistics Department (STA) during May of 2016. The main purpose of the mission was to assist the authorities in improving estimates of annual GDP, and in developing methods for compiling quarterly GDP estimates.