The World Bank's Open Data initiative is intended to provide all users with access to World Bank data. The data catalog is a listing of available World Bank data sources. This listing will continue to be updated as additional data resources are added. These resources include databases, pre-formatted tables and reports. Each of the listings includes a description of the data source and a direct link to that source. Where possible, the databases are linked directly to a selection screen to allow users to select the countries, indicators, and years they would like to search. Those search results can be exported in different formats. Users can also choose to download the entire database directly from the catalog.
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| World Development Indicators | World Development Indicators database is the primary World Bank database for development data from officially-recognized international sources. ... more |  |
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| Global Development Finance | Global Development Finance database provides external debt and financial flows statistics for countries that report public and publicly guaranteed debt under the Debtor Reporting System (DRS). ... more | |
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| African Development Indicators | Africa Development Indicators (ADI) 2010 provides the most detailed collection of development data on Africa. ... more | |
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| Research Datasets and Analytical Tools |
These datasets are some of those compiled for World Bank research, and are sorted by topic of research. These datasets tend to be in raw format, and are more limited in scope than the more comprehensive national and international statistics presented elsewhere in this data catalog. ... more |  |
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| Millennium Development Indicators | Database of official indicators for monitoring progress toward Millennium Development Goals. ... more | |
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| Global Economic Monitor (GEM) | Global Economic Monitor provides daily and monthly commentary on global economic conditions along with direct access to high frequency and forecast data that is refreshed daily. ... more | |
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| Actionable Governance Indicators | Governance indicators that could help design specific reforms and monitor their impacts. ...more | |
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| Bulletin Board on Statistical Capacity (BBSC) | The Bulletin Board on Statistical Capacity (BBSC) provides information on various aspects of national statistical systems, including a country-level statistical capacity indicator, with a view to facilitating assessment and monitoring of statistical capacity of IDA countries. | |
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| Business Environment Snapshots | Business Environment Snapshots is your one-stop guide to business environment indicators, laws, and World Bank Group project information for 183 countries. | |
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| Doing Business Database | Doing Business covers 183 economies and ranks countries on 10 sets of indicators on the ease of doing business. ... more | |
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| Education Statistics | Education Statistics database provides data on education from national statistical reports, statistical annexes of new publications, and other data sources. ... more | |
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| Enterprise Surveys | Enterprise Surveys provide the world's most comprehensive company-level data in emerging markets and developing economies ... more | |
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| Gender Statistics | Gender Statistics database provides data on key gender topics. Themes included are demographics, education, health, labor force, and political participation. ... more | |
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| Health Nutrition and Population Statistics | Health Nutrition and Population (HNP) Statistics database provides key health, nutrition and population statistics gathered from a variety of international sources. ... more | |
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| International Comparison Program | International Comparison Program (ICP) database provides a collection of comparative price data and detailed expenditure values of countries’ gross domestic products (GDP), and purchasing power parities (PPPs) estimates of the world’s economies. ...more | |
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| Joint External Debt Hub (JEDH) | Joint External Debt Hub provides external debt data and selected foreign assets from international creditor/market and national debtor sources. ...more | |
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| Logistics Performance Index (LPI) | LPI is an interactive benchmarking tool to help countries identify the challenges and opportunities they face in their performance on trade logistics and what they can do to improve their performance. ...more | |
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| Private Participation in Infrastructure (PPI) database | A joint product of the World Bank and the Public-Private Infrastructure Advisory Facility (PPIAF), is the primary source of information on private participation in infrastructure in developing countries. It contains 25 years of data on private participation in infrastructure in 137 countries. The data set includes information on more than 4,300 infrastructure projects. ... more | |
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| Quarterly External Debt Statistics (QEDS/SDDS) | Quarterly External Debt Statistics (QEDS) database provides detailed external debt data that are published individually by countries that subscribe to the IMF’s Special Data Dissemination Standard (SDDS) as well as GDDS participating countries that are in a position to produce the external debt data prescribed by the SDDS. ...more | |
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| Quarterly External Debt Statistics (QEDS/GDDS) | 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. ...more | |
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| Worldwide Governance Indicators (WGI) | Worldwide Governance Indicators (WGI) project reports aggregate and individual governance indicators for 212 countries and territories over the period 1996–2008, for six dimensions of governance. ...more | |
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Databases | Tables
| Data Sets | About the Data | Direct Links |
| Country At-a-Glance Tables (AAG) | Country at-a-glance tables present key indicators tracing the trends in social and economic development from the last three decades. | |
| GDP | Gross domestic product ranking table. | |
| GDP, PPP based | Gross domestic product ranking table based on Puchasing Power Parities. | |
| GNI Atlas method | Gross national income ranking table based on the Atlas Method. | |
| GNI per capita, Atlas method and PPP based | Gross national income per capita ranking table based on Atlas Method and Purchasing Power Parities. | |
| Health Nutrition Population (HNP) At-a-Glance Tables | 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. | |
| Information and Communication (ICT) At-a-Glance Tables | ICT tables provide key data on information and communications technologies, with sections on economic and social context, ICT sector structure, and ICT sector performance. | |
| Millennium Development Goals Tables (MDGs) | Millennium Development Goals tables provide data for MDG indicators for 5 years of data. | |
| Population | Population ranking table. | |
| Population Projection Tables | Population projection tables provide population growth estimates and other demographic projections from 2010 to 2050, at five-year intervals. They are disaggregated by age-group and gender and cover approximately 200 economies. | |
| Private Sector At-a-Glance Tables | Private sector tables cover more than 40 indicators on economic and social context, business environment, private sector investment, finance & banking, and infrastructure. |