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Ingmar Weber
Damien Jacques
Trevor Monroe
The world’s largest employer is the Services sector

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Hiroko Maeda
The population in Sub-Saharan Africa is projected to grow 10-fold between 1960 and 2050

World’s population will continue to grow and will reach nearly 10 billion by 2050

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Emi Suzuki
Save the Children GRID Child Inequality Tracker

Harnessing the power of data so no child is left behind

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Oliver Fiala
New country classifications by income level

New country classifications by income level: 2019-2020

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World Bank Data Team
Community loan and repayment schedule. Mumbai, India.

Giving creditors a voice for a better insolvency process

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Klaus Koch-Saldarriaga
Raman Maroz
Nina Dannaoui
Data Day -- Preston event

From Data Day to a Data Decade

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Carolina Sánchez-Páramo
Haishan Fu
Woman works in a small shop in Ghana

Unleashing the power of women entrepreneurs: Breaking down the legal barriers

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Kavell Joseph

Weekly Data Chart

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The world’s largest employer is the Services sector

Where can the youth find employment?

Remittance flows to Low- and Middle-Income countries (excluding China) are now larger than FDI and Development Assistance

Money sent home by workers now largest source of external financing in low- and middle-income countries (excluding China)

mini grids top 10 countries

Chart: 47 million people are connected to a mini grid

Half of the world's refugee population resides in only six countries

Newly released data show refugee numbers at record levels

Children who work only and don't attend school are mostly from Sub-Saharan African countries

Chart: Globally, 168 million children remain trapped in child labor

Litter found in coastal cleanups in selected Caribbean countries (items/km)

Caribbean beaches are littered with single-use plastics

East Asia and Pacific has the highest prevalence of smoking among men, but one of the lowest among women

Men smoke 5 times more than women

Fewer than 4 of every 10 STEM graduates are girls.

There are fewer female than male STEM graduates in 107 of 114 economies

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Measles vaccine coverage at 85% globally

The population in Sub-Saharan Africa is projected to grow 10-fold between 1960 and 2050

World’s population will continue to grow and will reach nearly 10 billion by 2050

Women, Business and the Law

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Woman works in a small shop in Ghana

Unleashing the power of women entrepreneurs: Breaking down the legal barriers

Countries with laws protecting women from sexual harassment in employment (%), WBL2009 and WBL2018

Creating safer workplaces: how far have we come?

Average score on Going Places Indicator by region, WBL 2018

Moving freely: Moving closer to gender equality

Nebiba Mohammed, 28, works at the Shints textile factory, one of several textile manufacturing plants in Ethiopia's recently opened Bole Lemi industrial park, some 45 minutes from the Addis Ababa city center. Photo: © Stephan Gladieu/World Bank

The next steps for employment equality in Ethiopia

Woman putting her children to sleep

The unequal burden for new mothers in the Caribbean

Protecting women from domestic violence -- chart

Protecting women from domestic violence: a key piece of the gender equality puzzle

When it comes to equality for women in Getting a Pension, South Asia scores less than 50 points

Why it's never too early to think about getting old

Less than 50 percent of the economies in MENA account for gender differences in property and inheritance laws

Where in the world do women still face legal barriers to own and administer assets?

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