Data News

International Debt Statistics 2020: External Debt Stock of Low- and Middle-Income Countries Rose, but Pace of Increase Slowed

External debt stock of low- and middle-income countries rose 5.2% in 2018 to $7.8 trillion, a slower pace of accumulation than in 2017, according to the World Bank’s Internal Debt Statistics 2020…

Evis Rucaj|
Debt

September 2019 global poverty update from the World Bank

The September 2019 global poverty update published today includes revised survey data which lead to minor changes in the most recent global poverty estimates.

R. Andres Castaneda Aguilar, Tony Fujs, Christoph Lakner, Minh Cong Nguyen, Espen Beer Prydz|
Poverty

Despite remarkable progress, 15,000 children and 800 women still die every day mostly of preventable or treatable causes

This blog is based on new child and maternal mortality estimates released jointly today by the United Nations Inter-agency Group for Child Mortality Estimation (UN IGME) and United Nations…

Emi Suzuki, Haruna Kashiwase|
Health

Is education ready to work in data-intensive environments?

If we are entering into the 'datafication' of education, countries will need to define rules and to develop new skills to ensure that present and future technology-enhanced education…

Cristóbal Cobo|
Digital Development, Education

Visualizing risk: Announcing the winners of the VizRisk 2019 Challenge

The projects submitted by a total of 42 participants from 25 countries use data and geographic context to tell compelling stories about risk, deconstruct past disasters, and inspire possibilities…

Marena Brinkhurst, Jocelyn Michele West, Simone Balog-Way|