Data News

Announcing Funding for 12 Development Data Innovation Projects

We’re pleased to announce support for 12 projects which seek to improve the way development data are produced, managed, and used. They bring together diverse teams of collaborators from around the…

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Agriculture and Food, Climate Change, Fragility Conflict and Violence, Disaster Risk Management, Energy

International Debt Statistics 2018 shows BRICs doubled bilateral lending commitments to low-income countries in 2016 to $84 billion

The 2018 edition of International Debt Statistics (IDS) has just been published. IDS 2018 presents statistics and analysis on the external debt and financial flows (debt and equity) of the world’s…

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Debt, Financial Inclusion, Financial Sector

Global Partnership announces new round of funding for ‘Collaborative Data Innovations for Sustainable Development’

Claire Melamed of the GPSDD & Mahmoud Mohieldin of the World Bank at the High Level Political Forum 2017Following a successful round of pilot funding for development data innovation projects…

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New country classifications by income level: 2017-2018

Updated country income classifications for the World Bank’s 2018 fiscal year are available here. The World Bank assigns the world's economies into four income groups — high, upper-middle,…

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Discontinuing the DataFinder Mobile Apps

Following the successful release of the new mobile-first data.worldbank.org we’re discontinuing the “DataFinder” series of apps for iOS and Android Devices. The mobile apps have been popular since…

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