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Key Publications

  • ATLAS of Sustainable Development Goals 2023

    The Atlas of Sustainable Development Goals presents interactive storytelling and data visualizations about the 17 SDGs.

  • Data Blog logo

    The Data Blog creates an online dialogue for development issues, recent trends, and data on topics ranging from satellite measurements, and survey analysis to fertility rates, migration, and energy.

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    ICP (International Comparison Program) Reports

    Reports for each recent ICP cycle provide results and analyses together with overviews and methodology, governance, coverage, the history of the program.

Key Data Products and Services

DATA COLLECTION AND MANAGEMENT

  • IDR 2023 report cover

    The Debtor Reporting System (DSR) collects detailed information at the loan level for external borrowing of reporting countries using standardized set of forms.

  • ICP logo

    The International Comparison Program (ICP) is a worldwide statistical initiative to collect comparative price data and detailed GDP expenditures to produce purchasing power parities (PPPs) for the world's economies.

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    The Living Standards Measurement Study (LSMS) is the World Bank's flagship household survey program focused on strengthening household survey systems in client countries and on improving the quality of microdata to better inform development policies.

  • Survey Solutions logo

    Survey Solutions is free software and a globally trusted platform for data collection used by national data collecting agencies.

DATA ANALYSIS

  • Data Lab logo

    The Data Lab improves internal coordination between World Bank data talent, expands pro-bono partnerships with private firms and academic institutions, and builds World Bank staff awareness and capacity to deliver modern data solutions in operations and research.

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    The Geospatial Operational Support Team (GOST) supports World Bank operations to integrate geospatial data¡ªmatched to measures of location, from countries and municipalities to specific coordinates¡ªinto their project design and implementation for development impact.

  • Global Electrification platform banner image

    The Global Electrification Platform (GEP) is an open access, interactive, online platform that allows for overview of electrification investment scenarios for a selection of countries.

  • Global Infrastructure Map banner image

    The Global Infrastructure Map makes available all available global geospatial data layers relevant to infrastructure in a single user-friendly platform.

  • Light Every Night banner image

    Light Every Night (World Bank Nighttime Light Data) provides open access to all nightly imagery and data from the Visible Infrared Imaging Radiometer Suite Day-Night Band (VIIRS DNB) from 2012-2020 and the Defense Meteorological Satellite Program Operational Linescan System (DMSP-OLS) from 1992-2013.

  • Rezoning banner image

    The REZoning tool is an interactive, web-based platform designed to identify, visualize, and rank zones that are most suitable for the development of solar, wind, or offshore wind projects.

  • Statistical Performance Indicators logo

    The Statistical Performance Indicators (SPI) provide an open-source framework for assessing the performance of statistical systems and the efforts to improve them.

  • World Bank Country Classifications banner image

    ľ¹ÏÓ°Ôº assigns the world¡¯s economies to four income groups¡ªlow, lower-middle, upper-middle, and high income. The classifications are updated each year on July 1 and are based on the GNI per capita, Atlas method, of the previous year.

  • World Bank Data Help Desk logo

    ľ¹ÏÓ°Ôº Data Help Desk provides machine-readable open access to the World Bank Group¡¯s development datasets and data catalog to promote data innovation and collaboration worldwide.

DATA IMPACT

  • ATLAS of Sustainable Development Goals 2023

    The Atlas of Sustainable Development Goals is a visual resource showcasing the role of data in achieving the SDGs and highlighting the areas where data gaps negatively impact progress.

  • Data Catalog logo

    The Data Catalog is the World Bank¡¯s official one-stop shop for the latest development data. Making high-impact data easy to access and use helps us deliver better results and improve life for the poorest and most vulnerable.

  • Data Use and Literacy Program logo

    The Data Use and Literacy Program works to build capacity for data literacy and data use, enable data-driven decision-making, and democratize participation in the data revolution across low- and middle-income countries.

  • DataBank logo

    The DataBank provides services to organize and structure data, automate data processing, detect anomalies, standardize codes, identifiers and aggregates, and disseminate data following internal and international best practices.

  • DDP logo

    The Development Data Partnership is a partnership between international organizations and companies, created to facilitate the use of third-party data in research and international development.

  • 50x2030 Initiative logo

    The 50x2030 Initiative to close the agricultural data gap is a multi-partner program that seeks to bridge the global agricultural data gap by transforming country data systems in 50 countries in Africa, Asia, the Middle East and Latin America by 2030.

  • Food Prices for Nutrition logo with people

    The Food Prices for Nutrition DataHub provides access to global statistics on the cost and affordability of healthy diets and related indicators.

  • Gender Data Portal logo

    ľ¹ÏÓ°Ôº's Gender Data Portal makes the latest gender statistics accessible through compelling narratives and data visualizations to improve the understanding of gender data and facilitate analyses that inform policy choices.

  • Blue globe with data image with Global Data Facility logo

    The Global Data Facility (GDF) is an innovative global funding instrument that enables long-term support and durable transformation of data systems and data capital in low- and middle-income countries to improve lives and safeguard the planet.

  • Microdata Library logo

    The Microdata Library shares data collected by the World Bank and other international, regional and national organizations through sample surveys of households, business establishments, or other facilities.  

  • The Open Data Portal makes all the World Bank's open data resources easy to find, download, and use.

    The Open Data Site makes all the World Bank's open data resources¡ªpresently including more than 4,000 datasets and 20,000 indicators, encompassing microdata, time series statistics, and geospatial data¡ªeasy to find, download, and use.

  • The Poverty and Inequality Platform was updated in September 2023.

    The Poverty & Inequality Platform (PIP) is a powerful source for country-specific, cross-country, and global information, including for monitoring the SDGs on poverty (SDG1) and inequality (SDG10).  

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    A Visual Guide to Using Data from the International Comparison Program

    This guide provides an overview of how PPPs, price levels and other ICP results enable a wealth of indicators that allow users to measure the effectiveness of current domestic policies, compare themselves with other economies, and track development and progress over time.

  • World Development Indicators

    The World Development Indicators (WDI) is a compilation of relevant, high-quality, and internationally comparable statistics about global development and the fight against poverty.

  • WITS logo

    The World Integrated Trade Solution (WITS) software provides access to international merchandise trade, tariff and non-tariff measures (NTM) data.

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VIDEO: Advancing Gender Equality through Household Surveys: Living Standards Measurement Study¨CPlus (LSMS+)

VIDEO: Data Literacy for All: Using Data to Tackle Challenges, Improve Lives, and Safeguard our Planet

VIDEO: Development Data Partnership

VIDEO: From Local Prices to the Global Economy: How Data from the International Comparison Program Help Us Understand Our World Today

VIDEO: Increasing the Use of Data for Prosperous Nepal

VIDEO: Putting Mobile Phone Data to Work for Development