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Aivin Solatorio, Data Scientist with the Development Data Group, has won second place at the at with his paper "."

We have published the Spanish edition of the Atlas of Sustainable Development Goals 2023, a visual resource presenting interactive storytelling and data visualizations about progress towards the 17 SDGs.

The Atlas of Sustainable Development Goals 2023 both the top ¡°Most Beautiful¡± award and the ¡°Humanitarian¡± category¡¯s gold medal at the prestigious , organized by the . 

We have released the Arabic edition of the Atlas of Sustainable Development Goals 2023, a visual resource presenting interactive storytelling and data visualizations about progress towards the 17 SDGs.

A new report on data governance in the Indian state of Kerala aims to support the state government in combining data initiatives related to climate change and disaster risk management into an integrated ecosystem of technology products and processes.

We are humbled that the  has been shortlisted in the .

Haishan Fu, Chief Statistician of the World Bank and Director of the World Bank¡¯s Development Data Group, delivered the opening address for the Women in Data Science (WiDS) Worldwide 2023 Virtual Conference.

Development Data Group experts ¨C Umar Serajuddin (Manager), Emi Suzuki (Demographer), and (Consultant) ¨C contributed data on and , as well as analysis to a recent article on China¡¯s smoking epidemic, produced by and re-published in . 

In a recent article on Vietnam's education system, The Telegraph has quoted Development Data Group Senior Economist, Hai-Anh H. Dang, and cited and . 

The International Telecommunication Union (ITU) and the Development Data Group have joined forces to put Mobile Phone Data (MPD) to work for policy through the World Bank-hosted Global Data Facility.

A new report sets out the rationale and preliminary findings of the data sharing exercise between G-7 and the World Bank, which has been extended to all Paris Club creditors on a voluntary basis. 

Development Data Group Senior Geographer Brian Blankespoor and other World Bank experts (above) have recently given a presentation at NASA to highlight how we use satellite data¡ªincluding from the agency¡¯s own satellite¡ªto track greenhouse gas emissions.

The Development Data Group, in close cooperation with the Bank's Equitable Growth, Finance, and Institutions (EFI) Global Practice, recently co-organized an OpenGovData Hackathon with the Electronic Administration Unit of the Government¡¯s Presidency in Tunisia to explore how open data can improve transparency and innovation.

In an opinion piece, The New York Times cited our research on poverty:

"Indeed, World Bank researchers  that the number of people living in extreme poverty actually declined a hair in 2022, though the figure remains higher than on the eve of the pandemic. The number is about the same as it was  ¡ª and much better than in 2017 and previous years."

In a prominent article, The New York Times cited our research on poverty:

"Defaulting on a huge swath of loans would send borrowing costs for vulnerable nations even higher and could spawn financial crises when  this year by the combined effects of the pandemic, inflation and Russia¡¯s war in Ukraine."