WDI |
World Development Indicators![]() The primary World Bank collection of development indicators, compiled from officially-recognized international sources. It presents the most current and accurate global development data available, and includes national, regional and global estimates. more |
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IDS |
International Debt Statistics![]() Focuses on financial flows, trends in external debt, and other major financial indicators for developing and advanced economies (data from Quarterly External Debt Statistics and Quarterly Public Sector Debt databases). more |
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AGI |
Actionable Governance Indicators Actionable governance indicators focus on specific aspects of governance, and are designed to provide guidance on the design of reforms and the monitoring of impacts. more |
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ADI |
Africa Development Indicators
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AICD |
Africa's Infrastructure The Africa Infrastructure Country Diagnostic (AICD) has data collection and analysis on the status of the main network infrastructures. The AICD database provides cross-country data on network infrastructure for nine major sectors: air transport, information and communication technologies, irrigation, ports, power, railways, roads, water and sanitation. more |
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African Cities Diagnostic This dataset contains 45 indicators for 31 African cities, related to urbanization, solid waste management, water resources availability, water supply services, sanitation services, flood hazards and economic and institutional strength. more |
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AidFlows A new tool that allows users to visualize sources and uses of development aid, by country. Aidflows offers new transparency about the flow of development funds – from countries providing the resources to countries receiving these funds. more |
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AWEI |
Arab World Education Performance Indicators The Arab World Education Performance Indicators compiles data on education outcomes in 22 Arab States member countries in an aggregated and standardized manner. It allows users to compare the performance of each country along the following 6 important dimensions of education performance: access, equity, quality, efficiency, relevance, and Knowledge Economy readiness. more |
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AAG |
At-a-Glance Table Country at-a-glance tables present key indicators tracing the trends in social and economic development from the last three decades. more |
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Bolivia APER |
Bolivia Agricultural Public Expenditure Review This is one of the most comprehensive datasets on public spending in the agricultural sector in Bolivia. The data on agriculture and agriculture-related expenditures was derived from the national accounting data obtained from the Public Accounting Department of the Ministry of Economy and Public Finance of Bolivia. more |
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BBSC |
Bulletin Board on Statistical Capacity The Bulletin Board on Statistical Capacity (BBSC) provides information on various aspects of national statistical systems of developing countries, including a country-level statistical capacity indicator. more |
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BEEPS |
Business Environment and Enterprise Performance Survey The Business Environment and Enterprise Performance Survey provides firm-level data on a broad range of issues about the business environment and performance of firms, including business-government relations, firm financing, labor, infrastructure, informal payments and corruption, and other topics such as training and innovation. more |
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Business Environment Snapshots A one-stop guide to business environment indicators, laws, and World Bank Group project information for 183 countries. more |
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Climate Change Data Data from World Development Indicators and Climate Change Knowledge Portal on climate systems, exposure to climate impacts, resilience, greenhouse gas emissions, and energy use. Water Data. In addition to the data available here and through the Climate Data API, the Climate Change Knowledge Portal has a web interface to a collection of water indicators that may be used to assess the impact of climate change across over 8,000 water basins worldwide. more |
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Climate Change Knowledge Portal: Ensemble Projections “Ensemble” temperature and precipitation data are derived from multiple global circulation models (GCMs). The ensemble data depict the range (10th percentile, median and 90th percentile) of model outputs run under each of two scenarios, A2 and B1, for four future time periods. The first listed download contains data aggregated to the country level; the remaining downloads are gridded data in shapefile format. more |
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CCKP |
Climate Change Knowledge Portal: Historical Data This database contains historical temperature and precipitation data aggregated from 2-degree gridded data to the country and basin levels. more |
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Climate For Development Climate For Development is a map-based micro-site that illustrates the links between climate change and development. The site is built on the open climate data available through the Climate Change Knowledge Portal. The data used on Climate For Development may be downloaded directly from the site or as map layers via the MapBox API. more |
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Contract Award Data Procurement under World Bank-financed projects results in the award of over 50,000 contracts with a total value of about $20 billion each year. Of these, about 10,000 contracts (particularly large-value contracts) are reviewed by Bank staff prior to contract award. more |
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CSC |
Corporate Scorecard Indicators The Corporate Scorecard is designed to provide a snapshot of the Bank’s overall performance, including its business modernization, in the context of development results. It facilitates strategic dialogue between Management and the Board on progress made and areas that need attention. The World Bank has systems—on which it continuously improves—for measuring and monitoring both development results and its own performance. These systems are complemented by independent evaluations. more |
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CPIA |
Country Policy and Institutional Assessment Rating of countries against a set of 16 criteria grouped in four clusters: economic management, structural policies, policies for social inclusion and equity, and public sector management and institutions. more |
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Country Profiles Country profiles present the latest key development data drawn from the World Development Indicators (WDI) database, the World Bank's primary database for cross-country comparable development data. more |
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Documents & Reports Documents & Reports, previously known as World Development Sources (WDS) contains more than 130,000 publically available World Bank documents that enable sharing the institution's extensive knowledge base and implementing its access to information policy. It includes operational documents (project documents, analytical and advisory work, and evaluations), formal and informal research papers, and most Bank publications in more than 60 languages. more |
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DB |
Doing Business Doing Business provides objective measures of business regulations and their enforcement across 185 economies. Each economy is ranked according to 10 sets of indicators. These are combined into an overall "ease of doing business" ranking. more |
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EAP |
East Asia and Pacific Economic Update
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EdStats |
Education Statistics The World Bank EdStats Query holds around 2,500 internationally comparable education indicators for access, progression, completion, literacy, teachers, population, and expenditures. The indicators cover the education cycle from pre-primary to tertiary education. The query also holds learning outcome data from international learning assessments (PISA, TIMSS, etc.), equity data from household surveys, and projection data to 2050. more |
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Education Tables Education tables provide a snapshot look at a variety of relevant socioeconomic, education and finance indicators for a group of developing countries. more |
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ES |
Enterprise Surveys Enterprise Surveys provide firm-level data from over 120,000 establishments in 125 countries. Data are used to create over 100 indicators that benchmark the quality of the business environment across the globe. more |
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Environment At-a-Glance Factsheets The factsheets contain information covering topics such as Agriculture (eg., fertilizer consumption), Biodiversity (eg., known bird species) to Environmental Health (eg., air pollution damages). more |
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Environmental Accounting - Adjusted Net Savings Adjusted net savings measures measures the true rate of savings in an economy after taking into account investment in human capital, depletion of natural resources and damage caused by pollution. more |
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Environmental Accounting - Total Wealth Economic policy can be regarded as a process of portfolio management in which the assets to be managed are produced capital, natural capital and human resources. Estimates of wealth and its components are available for nearly 120 countries. more |
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Environmental Data by Region These online reports offer a collection of data from the World Development Indicators (WDI) for specific countries, regions and income groups. more |
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Environmental Data by Topic Contains online reports classified by topics including agriculture, forests and biodiversity, energy, emissions and pollution, water and sanitation, and environment and health. more |
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Exporter Dynamics Database The Exporter Dynamics Database is the first database providing measures of exporter characteristics and dynamics across 45 countries across all geographic regions and income levels. The Exporter Dynamics Database contains close to 100 measures covering the basic characteristics of exporters, their distribution by size, the diversification in their products and markets, their dynamics in terms of entry, exit and survival, and the average unit prices of the goods they trade. more |
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Databank
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GDP ranking Gross domestic product ranking table. more |
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GDP ranking, PPP based Gross domestic product ranking table based on Purchasing Power Parities. more |
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GEM Commodities The World Bank collection of monthly commodities prices and indices from 1960 to present, updated on the third working day of each month, as presented in the Commodity Price Data (a.k.a. Pink Sheet), published continuously for more than half a century. more |
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GenderStats |
Gender Statistics The Gender Statistics database provides indicators on key gender topics. Themes included are demographics, education, health, labor force, and political participation. more |
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GBMD |
Global Bilateral Migration Database Global matrices of bilateral migrant stocks spanning the period 1960-2000, disaggregated by gender and based primarily on the foreign-born concept are presented. Over one thousand census and population register records are combined to construct decennial matrices corresponding to the last five completed census rounds. more |
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GEM |
Global Economic Monitor Providing daily updates of global economic developments, with coverage of high income- as well as developing countries. Daily data updates are provided for exchange rates, equity markets, interest rates, stripped bond spreads, and emerging market bond indices. more |
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GEP |
Global Economic Prospects Country-level data on the short-, medium, and long-term outlook for the global economy and the implications for developing countries and poverty reduction. more |
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Databank
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GFDD |
Global Financial Development![]() The Global Financial Development Database is an extensive dataset of financial system characteristics for 203 economies. The database includes measures of (1) size of financial institutions and markets (financial depth), (2) degree to which individuals can and do use financial services (access), (3) efficiency of financial intermediaries and markets in intermediating resources and facilitating financial transactions (efficiency), and (4) stability of financial institutions and markets (stability). more |
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Global Findex |
Global Financial Inclusion (Global Findex) Database The Global Financial Inclusion Database provides 506 country-level indicators of financial inclusion summarized for all adults and disaggregated by key demographic characteristics—gender, age, education, income, and rural or urban residence. more |
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Global Statistics Global Statistics data are drawn from World Development Indicators database. Regional groupings reflect the Bank’s operational regions and include only low and middle income economies. more |
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GNI per capita ranking, Atlas method and PPP based Gross national income per capita ranking table based on Atlas Method and Purchasing Power Parities. more |
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GNI ranking, Atlas method Gross national income ranking table based on the Atlas Method. more |
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GPE |
GPE Results Forms Database The data originate from the education goals of developing-country partners of the Global Partnership for Education (GPE). Indicators compare actual values observed against targets, as set in education sector plans, joint sector reviews, and GPE grant applications. Indicators present key education outcomes and service delivery data; domestic, external, and GPE financing; learning outcomes; the composition of the Local Education Groups; and aid effectiveness in the education sector. more |
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Haiti Data HaitaData.org facilitates open access to Haiti-related geo-spatial information, data and knowledge sources, encouraging others to share and use them for the development of Haiti. The data can be used for many purposes: establishing baseline data, conducting risk assessments, planning, project monitoring, and tracking progress. more |
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Health Stats |
Health Nutrition and Population Statistics Provides key health, nutrition and population statistics gathered from a variety of international sources. Themes include population dynamics, nutrition, reproductive health, health financing, medical resources and usage, immunization, infectious diseases, HIV/AIDS, DALY, population projections and lending. more |
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Health Nutrition and Population Statistics by Wealth Quintile This database presents HNP data by wealth quintile since 1990s to present. It covers more than 70 indicators, including childhood diseases and interventions, nutrition, sexual and reproductive health, mortality, and other determinants of health, for more than 80 low- and middle-income countries. more |
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Databank
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Health Nutrition Population (HNP) At-a-Glance Tables HNP tables provides key HNP indicators by country for 1980, 1990, 2000 and the most recent year available. It also includes average data for the income and regional group that the country belongs to. more |
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Health Nutrition Population (HNP) Lending World Bank's lending for the Health, Nutrition and Population sector for the years1970 to 2008. more |
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Household Survey Education Profiles Household Survey Education Profiles are reports organized into four categories: school participation, progression, attainment, and education expenditure. more |
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IDA |
IDA Results Measurement System The IDA Results Measurement System dataset measures progress on aggregate outcomes for IDA countries for selected indicators. more |
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IEG WB Project Ratings |
IEG World Bank Project Performance Ratings
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ICP |
International Comparison Program The International Comparison Program database provides a collection of comparative price data and detailed expenditure values of countries’ gross domestic product (GDP), and estimates of purchasing power parities (PPPs) for the world’s economies. more |
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Databank
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International Debt Statistics: Summary and Country Tables Special summary tables present cross-country comparisons of key debt statistics and composition of total external debt stocks. more |
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JEDH |
Joint External Data Hub External debt data and selected foreign assets from international creditor/market sources. more |
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Databank
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KEI |
Knowledge Economy Index 109 structural and qualitative variables for 146 countries to measure their performance on four Knowledge Economy pillars: Economic Incentive and Institutional Regime, Education, Innovation, and Information and Communications Technologies. more |
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LC3D |
Landmine Contamination, Casualties and Clearance Database The Landmine Contamination, Casualties and Clearance provides country level data on a broad range of issues related to landmines and cluster munitions, including contamination, casualties and clearance, and their associated cost. The data was compiled from two sources: Landmine and Cluster Munition Monitor and annual surveys by the United Nations Mine Action Team (UNMAT). more |
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Little Data Book on Climate Change: Supplemental Data The World Bank's Little Data Book on Climate Change contains a diverse set of indicators covering climate, exposure to impacts, resilience, GHG emissions, national-level actions and carbon markets. This database contains the climate indicators featured in the Little Data Book, as well as additional climate indicators not included in the book. more |
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LPI |
Logistics Performance Index The Logistics Performance Index overall score reflects assessments of a country's logistics based on efficiency of the customs clearance process, quality of trade- and transport-related infrastructure, ease of arranging competitively priced shipments, quality of logistics services, ability to track and trace consignments, and frequency with which shipments reach the consignee within the scheduled time. The index ranges from 1 to 5, with a higher score representing better performance. more |
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MUV Index |
Manufactures Unit Value Index A proxy for the price of developing country imports of manufactures in U.S. dollar terms, used to assess cost escalation for imported goods. more |
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Mapping for Results Mapping for Results aims to visualize the locations of Bank activities and to provide access to information about indicators, sectors, funding, and results. more |
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MIGA |
MIGA Project Portfolio The Multilateral Investment Guarantee Agency (MIGA) was created in 1988 as a member of the World Bank Group to promote foreign direct investment into emerging economies to support economic growth, reduce poverty, and improve people’s lives. more |
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Migration and Remittances Factbook 2011![]() Migration and Remittances Factbook 2011 provides a snapshot of migration and remittances for all countries, regions and income groups of the world, compiled from available data from various sources. more |
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MDGs |
Millennium Development Goals Relevant indicators drawn from the World Development Indicators, reorganized according to the goals and targets of the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs). more |
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MDGs |
Millennium Development Goals Tables Millennium Development Goals tables provide data for MDG indicators for 5 years of data. more |
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MGM |
Monitoring Gender Mainstreaming in World Bank Lending Operations This data set determines the extent to which projects are gender-informed on three dimensions: analysis, actions and monitoring and evaluation. It is updated on an annual basis. more |
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Open Data for the Horn Open Data for the Horn facilitates open access to geospatial information, data and knowledge sources, about the ongoing response to the drought in the Horn of Africa. Open Data for the Horn is a project of the Open Data for Resilience Initiative, a global partnership that seeks to build data sharing programs along with the capacity and tools to use data to make more informed decisions, that is working on implementation in 25 countries. more |
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Population Projections Population growth estimates and other demographic projections from 2005 to 2050, at five-year intervals. They are disaggregated by age-group and gender and cover approximately 200 economies. more |
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Population ranking Population ranking table. more |
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PPI |
Private Participation in Infrastructure The primary source of information on private participation in infrastructure in low- and middle-income countries. It contains more than 25 years of data on private participation in infrastructure in 137 countries. The data set includes information on more than 4,300 infrastructure projects. more |
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Privatization Database Privatization database provides data on privatization transactions of at least US$1 million in developing countries from 2000 to 2008. more |
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QEDS/SDDS |
Quarterly External Debt Statistics Quarterly External Debt Statistics (QEDS) database provides detailed external debt data that are published individually by countries that subscribe to the IMF’s Special Data Dissemination Standard (SDDS) as well as GDDS participating countries that are in a position to produce the external debt data prescribed by the SDDS. more |
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QEDS/GDDS |
Quarterly External Debt Statistics Quarterly External Debt Statistics (QEDS) provides external debt data for an extension of countries that participate in the IMF's General Data Dissemination System (GDDS) in February 2008. more |
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QPSD |
Quarterly Public Sector Debt Quarterly Public Sector Debt (QPSD) database, jointly developed by the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund, brings together detailed public sector debt data of selected developing /emerging market countries (Czech Republic is an advanced economy; the rest of the advanced economies will be invited to participate in this initiative in 2011). more |
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Remittance Prices Worldwide Provides data on the cost of sending and receiving small amounts of money from one country to another. more |
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Research Datasets and Analytical Tools Various specialized datasets compiled for World Bank research activities, sorted by topic. Many datasets are in raw unprocessed formats, and are specific in scope and coverage. more |
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Rural Access Index (RAI) RAI is a key transport headline indicator and has been established to focus on the critical role of access and mobility in the reduction of poverty in developing countries. more |
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STRD |
Services Trade Restrictions Database The Services Trade Restrictions Database collects information on applied services trade policies across 103 countries, 18 services sectors (covering telecommunications, finance, transportation, retail and professional services) and key modes of service supply. It contains qualitative policy information as well as a preliminary quantification of applied measures' restrictiveness. more |
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SEDLAC |
Socio-Economic Database for Latin America and the Caribbean This web site includes statistics on poverty and other distributional and social variables from 25 Latin American and Caribbean (LAC) countries. All statistics are computed from microdata of the main household surveys carried out in these countries using a homogenous methodology (data permitting). more |
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South Sudan National Bureau of Statistics We encourage those looking for data on South Sudan to visit the National Bureau of Statistics website. more |
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TTBD |
Temporary Trade Barriers Database including the Global Antidumping Database The Temporary Trade Barriers Database (TTBD) website hosts newly collected, freely available, and detailed data on more than thirty different national governments’ use of policies such as antidumping (AD), global safeguards (SG), China-specific transitional safeguard (CSG) measures, and countervailing duties (CVD). more |
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ASPIRE |
The Atlas of Social Protection: Indicators of Resilience and Equity The World Bank’s ASPIRE online tool is the most up-to-date compilation of global social protection and labor (SPL) estimates, including data from 56 countries—mostly in the developing world. more |
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The Changing Wealth of Nations![]() The Wealth of Nations dataset provides country level data on comprehensive wealth, adjusted net saving and non-renewable resource rents indicators. It presents a set of “wealth accounts” for over 150 countries for 1995, 2000, and 2005 which allows a longer-term assessment of global, regional and country performance in building wealth. more |
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Thematic Gender Data Gender statistics for the following themes: demographics, education, health, labor force, political participation, and gender monitoring. more |
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Thematic Health Nutrition Population (HNP) Data Thematic HNP data covers indicators on the following themes by country for 1990, 1995, 2000 and the most recent year available. more |
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Wage Bill and Pay Compression Wage Bill and Pay Compression provides data on public sector wage bills, pay compression, and government employment. Wage bill includes both central and general government compensation as percentages of GDP, revenues, and expenditures. Pay compression is defined as the ratio of highest salary to lowest salary on the central government's main salary scale. more |
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WDR2013 OWW |
WDR2013 Occupational Wages around the World The WDR2013 OWW database contains occupation wage data for 161 occupations in 171 countries from 1983 to 2008. The occupation wage data are derived from the ILO October Inquiry database laborsta.ilo.org by calibrating the data into normalized wage rate for each occupation. The normalized wages refer to average hourly or monthly wage rates for adult workers. Remco Oostendorp, 2012, “The Occupational Wages around the World (OWW) Database: Update for 1983-2008).” World Development Report 2013 Background paper. more |
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WDR2013 SGJ |
WDR2013 Survey on Good Jobs The Survey on Good Jobs gathers data on perceptions of jobs and how they vary with wealth, gender, income, labor status, sector of employment, experience and education level, constraints to accessing good jobs within the local context, barriers to labor market entry (which includes wage employment and self-employment in non-farm and farm activities) and potential solutions for these barriers (causes of joblessness/unemployment). more |
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World Bank Finances![]() Datasets related to the World Bank’s finances, with tools to filter, visualize, share, and embed data. The data covers: IBRD's loans and IDA's credits and grants; the World Bank’s operational summary and financial statements; contributions and transfers from global funds; and more financial information. more |
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World Bank Policy Research Working Papers A collection of policy research working papers, policy research reports, and world development reports in the World Bank's Archives. more |
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World Bank Projects & Operations World Bank Projects & Operations provides access to basic information on all of the World Bank's lending projects from 1947 to the present. The dataset includes basic information such as the project title, task manager, country, project id, sector, themes, commitment amount, product line, and financing. It also provides links to publicly disclosed online documents. more |
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WDR2011 |
World Development Report 2011 As a follow up to the official launch of the 2011 World Development Report on Conflict, Security and Development (WDR 2011), the WDR 2011 database has been launched. The database includes statistics related to civil war, terrorism, and trafficking, as well as socio-economic, demographic and political data. more |
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World Development Report 2013 on Jobs Statistical Tables The World Development Report 2013 on Jobs statistical tables provide national level data on a broad range of issues related to labor force participation, employment structure, wage inequality, skills and productivity, youth idleness and unemployment, social cohesion, migration, and core labor conventions. more |
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WITS |
World Integrated Trade Solution WITS is a trade software tool giving access to bilateral trade between countries based on various product classifications, product details, years, and trade flows. It also contains tariff and non-tariff measures as well as analysis tool to calculate effects of tariff reductions. In addition, users have access to two visualization tools. more |
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WGI |
Worldwide Governance Indicators Aggregate and individual governance indicators for 215 countries and territories over the period 1996–2011, for six dimensions of governance. more |