This is the eighth edition of CARICOM’s Selected Economic Indicators. The first edition of this report, published in October 2001, started out simply as an attempt to make available for both internal and external users, key economic indicators of CARICOM Member States in a single publication. As the report developed and the problems of compiling a consistent and reliable data set across all Member States were exposed, the publication grew into an attempt to bring to the fore the issues of harmonisation of statistics in the Region.