Abstract: A review on the recent progress of the researches on analytical methods of tin and its compounds including organotin compounds,mainly during the last decade was given in this paper.Methods related were the spectrophotometry,atomic absorption spectrometry,hydride-generation-atomic fluorescence spectrometry,electrochemical method,inductively coupled plasma-atomic emission spectrometry,X-ray fluorescence spectrometry chromatography and the hyphenation of various analytical technique (32 ref.cited).