The October 2025 update of the World Development Indicators (WDI) database was released on October 7. It includes new and revised data across a wide array of development metrics. Among the highlights are refreshed indicators for the World Bank’s Vision and Client Context Scorecard, including updated poverty headcount ratios, which are essential for tracking progress toward eliminating extreme poverty and improving shared prosperity.
Coming shortly after the 2025 Annual Meetings, where jobs, poverty reduction, and data-driven development were central themes, this release offers timely insights to support the global agenda set in Washington. The October update of the World Development Indicators provides fresh data to inform policy and monitor progress on these shared priorities.
New country level poverty data, as well as global and regional poverty estimates, up to 2024, featuring 55 new datasets and a new methodology for estimating poverty in countries without data have been added. Regional poverty estimates now reflect the the World Bank’s regional classification as of July 2025.
Key development themes like education (enrollment, literacy, out-of-school populations, etc), health (HIV/AIDS prevalence and treatment, immunization, maternal mortality), labor (employment, unemployment, labor force participation), balance of payments, and purchasing power parity (PPP) are covered. New data on emissions, energy, electricity measures, water stress, food insecurity, and agricultural indices are also featured. This update includes the latest data on access and use of financial services, sourced from the Global Findex Database (2025).
The October 2025 release features new data on forcibly displaced people, including indicators on refugees under the mandate of the UNHCR (by country or territory of asylum and origin), and UNRWA (by country or territory of asylum and origin), asylum-seekers (by country or territory of asylum and origin), internally displaced people (IDP), and other people in need of international protection (by country or territory of asylum and origin), covering data until 2024.
This latest WDI edition also provides the latest statistics on intentional homicide, at the country and at regional levels.
The data is accessible through multiple platforms, including the WDI website, DataBank, and the Open Data portal. A complete list of updates is available in the full WDI release note for October 2025.
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