This is the forty-first in a series of annual compilations of statistics on world industry designed to meet both the general demand for information of this kind and the special requirements of the United Nations and related international bodies. It is organized in two volumes, namely Volume I: physical quantity Data and Volume II: monetary value data. This edition of the Yearbook contains data on production of industrial commodities by country and geographical region. The statistics refer to the ten-year period 1998 to 2007 for about 200 countries and areas, based on a list of about 600 commodities.