Data Catalog

Focuses on financial flows, trends in external debt, and other major financial indicators for developing countries. Includes over 200 time series indicators from 1970 to 2010, for most reporting countries.

The primary World Bank collection of development indicators on Africa, compiled from officially-recognized international sources. It presents the most current and accurate global development data available, and includes national, regional and global estimates.

This dataset contains 45 indicators for 31 African cities, related to urbanization, solid waste management, water resources availability, water supply services, sanitation services, flood hazards and economic and institutional strength.

The Arab World Education Performance Indicators compiles data on education outcomes in 22 Arab States member countries in an aggregated and standardized manner. It allows users to compare the performance of each country along the following 6 important dimensions of education performance: access, equity, quality, efficiency, relevance, and Knowledge Economy readiness.

This is one of the most comprehensive datasets on public spending in the agricultural sector in Bolivia. The data on agriculture and agriculture-related expenditures was derived from the national accounting data obtained from the Public Accounting Department of the Ministry of Economy and Public Finance of Bolivia.

The Business Environment and Enterprise Performance Survey provides firm-level data on a broad range of issues about the business environment and performance of firms, including business-government relations, firm financing, labor, infrastructure, informal payments and corruption, and other topics such as training and innovation.

Data from World Development Indicators and Climate Change Knowledge Portal on climate systems, exposure to climate impacts, resilience, greenhouse gas emissions, and energy use.

Water Data. In addition to the data available here and through the Climate Data API, the Climate Change Knowledge Portal has a web interface to a collection of water indicators that may be used to assess the impact of climate change across over 8,000 water basins worldwide.

This database contains historical temperature and precipitation data aggregated from 2-degree gridded data to the country and basin levels.

Procurement under World Bank-financed projects results in the award of over 50,000 contracts with a total value of about $20 billion each year. Of these, about 10,000 contracts (particularly large-value contracts) are reviewed by Bank staff prior to contract award.

Rating of countries against a set of 16 criteria grouped in four clusters: economic management, structural policies, policies for social inclusion and equity, and public sector management and institutions.

Documents & Reports, previously known as World Development Sources (WDS) contains more than 130,000 publically available World Bank documents that enable sharing the institution's extensive knowledge base and implementing its access to information policy. It includes operational documents (project documents, analytical and advisory work, and evaluations), formal and informal research papers, and most Bank publications in more than 60 languages.

The East Asia and Pacific Economic Update is the comprehensive, twice-yearly review of the region’s economies prepared by the East Asia and Pacific region of the World Bank. more

Education tables provide a snapshot look at a variety of relevant socioeconomic, education and finance indicators for a group of developing countries.

The factsheets contain information covering topics such as Agriculture (eg., fertilizer consumption), Biodiversity (eg., known bird species) to Environmental Health (eg., air pollution damages).

Economic policy can be regarded as a process of portfolio management in which the assets to be managed are produced capital, natural capital and human resources. Estimates of wealth and its components are available for nearly 120 countries.

Contains online reports classified by topics including agriculture, forests and biodiversity, energy, emissions and pollution, water and sanitation, and environment and health.

Gross domestic product ranking table.

The World Bank collection of monthly commodities prices and indices from 1960 to present, updated on the third working day of each month, as presented in the Commodity Price Data (a.k.a. Pink Sheet), published continuously for more than half a century.

Global matrices of bilateral migrant stocks spanning the period 1960-2000, disaggregated by gender and based primarily on the foreign-born concept are presented. Over one thousand census and population register records are combined to construct decennial matrices corresponding to the last five completed census rounds.

Providing daily updates of global economic developments, with coverage of high income- as well as developing countries. Daily data updates are provided for exchange rates, equity markets, interest rates, stripped bond spreads, and emerging market bond indices.

The Global Financial Development Database is an extensive dataset of financial system characteristics for 203 economies. The database includes measures of (1) size of financial institutions and markets (financial depth), (2) degree to which individuals can and do use financial services (access), (3) efficiency of financial intermediaries and markets in intermediating resources and facilitating financial transactions (efficiency), and (4) stability of financial institutions and markets (stability). 

Global Statistics data are drawn from World Development Indicators database. Regional groupings reflect the Bank’s operational regions and include only low and middle income economies. more

Gross national income ranking table based on the Atlas Method.

Provides key health, nutrition and population statistics gathered from a variety of international sources. Themes include population dynamics, nutrition, reproductive health, health financing, medical resources and usage, immunization, infectious diseases, HIV/AIDS, DALY, population projections and lending.

HNP tables provides key HNP indicators by country for 1980, 1990, 2000 and the most recent year available. It also includes average data for the income and regional group that the country belongs to.

Household Survey Education Profiles are reports organized into four categories: school participation, progression, attainment, and education expenditure.

This dataset contains all World Bank project assessments carried out by the Independent Evaluation Group (IEG) since the unit was created back in the 70s. Spanning over 30 years, the collection has more than 8000 project assessments, covering about 6000 completed projects; it is perhaps the longest-running and most comprehensive project performance data collection of its kind.

External debt data and selected foreign assets from international creditor/market sources.

The Landmine Contamination, Casualties and Clearance provides country level data on a broad range of issues related to landmines and cluster munitions, including contamination, casualties and clearance, and their associated cost. The data was compiled from two sources: Landmine and Cluster Munition Monitor and annual surveys by the United Nations Mine Action Team (UNMAT).

Mapping for Results aims to visualize the locations of Bank activities and to provide access to information about indicators, sectors, funding, and results.

Migration and Remittances Factbook 2011 provides a snapshot of migration and remittances for all countries, regions and income groups of the world, compiled from available data from various sources.

Millennium Development Goals tables provide data for MDG indicators for 5 years of data.

Open Data for the Horn facilitates open access to geospatial information, data and knowledge sources, about the ongoing response to the drought in the Horn of Africa. Open Data for the Horn is a project of the Open Data for Resilience Initiative, a global partnership that seeks to build data sharing programs along with the capacity and tools to use data to make more informed decisions, that is working on implementation in 25 countries.

Population ranking table.

Privatization database provides data on privatization transactions of at least US$1 million in developing countries from 2000 to 2008.

Quarterly External Debt Statistics (QEDS) provides external debt data for an extension of countries that participate in the IMF's General Data Dissemination System (GDDS) in February 2008.

Provides data on the cost of sending and receiving small amounts of money from one country to another.

RAI is a key transport headline indicator and has been established to focus on the critical role of access and mobility in the reduction of poverty in developing countries.

This web site includes statistics on poverty and other distributional and social variables from 25 Latin American and Caribbean (LAC) countries. All statistics are computed from microdata of the main household surveys carried out in these countries using a homogenous methodology (data permitting).

The Temporary Trade Barriers Database (TTBD) website hosts newly collected, freely available, and detailed data on more than thirty different national governments’ use of policies such as antidumping (AD), global safeguards (SG), China-specific transitional safeguard (CSG) measures, and countervailing duties (CVD).

The Wealth of Nations dataset provides country level data on comprehensive wealth, adjusted net saving and non-renewable resource rents indicators. It presents a set of “wealth accounts” for over 150 countries for 1995, 2000, and 2005 which allows a longer-term assessment of global, regional and country performance in building wealth.

Thematic HNP data covers indicators on the following themes by country for 1990, 1995, 2000 and the most recent year available.

The WDR2013 OWW database contains occupation wage data for 161 occupations in 171 countries from 1983 to 2008. The occupation wage data are derived from the ILO October Inquiry database laborsta.ilo.org by calibrating the data into normalized wage rate for each occupation. The normalized wages refer to average hourly or monthly wage rates for adult workers. Remco Oostendorp, 2012, “The Occupational Wages around the World (OWW) Database: Update for 1983-2008).” World Development Report 2013 Background paper.

Datasets related to the World Bank’s finances, with tools to filter, visualize, share, and embed data. The data covers: IBRD's loans and IDA's credits and grants; the World Bank’s operational summary and financial statements; contributions and transfers from global funds; and more financial information.

World Bank Projects & Operations provides access to basic information on all of the World Bank's lending projects from 1947 to the present. The dataset includes basic information such as the project title, task manager, country, project id, sector, themes, commitment amount, product line, and financing. It also provides links to publicly disclosed online documents.

The World Development Report 2013 on Jobs statistical tables provide national level data on a broad range of issues related to labor force participation, employment structure, wage inequality, skills and productivity, youth idleness and unemployment, social cohesion, migration, and core labor conventions.