Data News

World Statistics Day: Five key statistics on global access to water, sanitation and hygiene

Jonathan Grabinsky, Christian Borja-Vega|

The availability of “big data for good” can be a game changer for monitoring pandemic response. We will illustrate the use of this data to measure impact here in Vietnam, which was recently hit by…

Maham Faisal Khan, Kai Kaiser, Jacques Morisset|

Find out how in the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic, when Nepal and most of the world was in an extended lockdown, a group of young people used data to help their communities.

Liza Maharjan, Avinashi Paudel|

Precious metals prices continued their three-month long uptrend amid the COVID-19 pandemic. Demand for gold has been buoyed by safe-haven buying and global policy support in response to the…

Wee Chian Koh, John Baffes|

If you’ve visited the World Integrated Trade Solution (WITS) website, perhaps you’ve already met and interacted with our chatbot known as α-ßΩτ who lives in the top right corner of  the page. We…

Siddhesh Kaushik|