The World Bank’s Development Data Group has made substantial progress in the amount and quality of data it provides. The World Development Indicators provides an open collection of over 1,400 high…

Confronting the ongoing COVID-19 crisis, digital technologies have shown a great potential beyond improving convenience or efficiency, playing an indispensable role in sustaining social and…

Politics shape development outcomes. Taking the politics of development seriously also means taking accountability mechanisms and the legitimacy of decision-making processes seriously.

In many economies in Sub Saharan Africa, as well as some countries in South Asia, birth registration in rural areas is very low.

The World Development Indicators (WDI) is the World Bank’s premier compilation of international statistics on global development. Drawing from officially recognized sources and including national…

This is part of a series of blogs focused on the Sustainable Development Goals and data from the 2016 Edition of World Development Indicators. var embedDeltas={"100":824, "200…

We’re pleased to announce that the 2015 edition of World Development Indicators (WDI)  has been released.  WDI is the most widely used dataset in our Open Data Catalog and it  provides high-…

A number of World Bank Open Data users have been taking advantage of the new Databank. Databank offers over 8, 000 indicators with which to create and save custom reports with tables, charts, or…