Collections

BOOST - Public Expenditure Database

Coronavirus (COVID-19) Related Datasets

Data 360

Development Data Partnership
The Development Data Partnership platform facilitates formation of public-private partnerships for solving development challenges with technology. Specifically, the Development Data Partnership Working Group organizes opportunities for WBG staff to work with technology companies who offer pro-bono data and resources.

Discrepancy Index

Earth Observation for Sustainable Development

Energy Data Info

Equitable Growth, Finance and Institutions
This collection features datasets to support building policies, institutions and investments for inclusive and sustainable growth.

Gender Spatial Data - Small Island States
Project Page: https://worldbank.github.io/GEEST/README.html
As part of the “Geospatial Assessment of Women Employment and Business Opportunities in the Energy Sector” project, open-source Gender-related spatial data was collected for 31 Small Island Developing States (SIDS) across the globe, resulting in curated and thoroughly documented geodatabases (GDBs) that are now ready to be explored! Fifty-nine spatial layers were identified and then researched for each country, covering the following categories: Demographics and Population | Renewable Energy | Energy Access | Education | Jobs and Finance | Digital Inclusion | Transportation | Safety | Amenities | Climate/Earth | Law/Policy/Government.
However, not every country GDB contains all 59 data layers, as this was dependent on the availability of open-source data in each SIDS. Users are encouraged to check the accompanying metadata excel file for more information on the datasets in each GDB, the vintage, and the

Geospatial Datasets

Infrastructure Finance Datasets
A collection of datasets to help finance the global infrastructure gap.

Library Databases
Data and dataset subscriptions managed by the Library Network on agriculture, business, economics, energy, finance, health, risk, water, and more..

Merchandise Trade Data
Collection of merchandise trade data available to World Bank staff.

Policy Research Working Papers
This collection includes datasets associated with research organized under the Bank, Policy Research Working Papers.

Risk Data Library
This collection contains data on disaster and climate risk assessments curated by the Global Facility for Disaster Reduction and Recovery (GFDRR).

Road Software Tools

Small area estimates / Poverty mapping

SARCE Spatial Database
This spatial database, a product of the South Asia Region Chief Economist's (SARCE) Office, presents data collected from official sources and harmonized into different spatial levels. Data includes economic and environmental data across 12 topic areas, and includes data from four countries in South Asia (Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, and Nepal) for both 2001 and 2011.

Syria Economic Monitor

Ukraine datasets
A collection of relevant datasets to support operations in Ukraine.

World Bank (WBG) - European Space Agency (ESA) Database
Catalogue lists all the data produced under the partnership contracts between the World Bank Group and the European Space Agency

World Bank Digital Development Data
A collection of datasets to help achieve universal access to reliable and fast internet services for all.

World Bank Energy Datasets
A collection of datasets to help achieve sustainable energy for all.

World Bank Transport Data
A collection of datasets to help achieve sustainable mobility for all.

World Bank Water Data

World Development Report 2021
The World Development Report 2021: Data for Better Lives explores the tremendous potential of the changing data landscape to improve the lives of poor people, while also acknowledging its potential to open back doors that can harm individuals, businesses, and societies. To address this tension between the helpful and harmful potential of data, this Report calls for a new social contract that enables the use and reuse of data to create economic and social value, ensures equitable access to that value, and fosters trust that data will not be misused in harmful ways. The data used in the WDR2021 are curated as a collection here.

World Development Report 2022
The World Development Report 2022: Finance for an Equitable Recovery examines the central role of finance in the economic recovery from the COVID-19 pandemic. In doing so, it looks into the consequences of the crisis most likely to affect emerging economies and proposes a set of policies to mitigate the interconnected financial risks stemming from the pandemic and to steer economies toward a sustainable and equitable recovery. The data used in the WDR2022 are curated as a collection here.

World Settlement Footprint
The World Settlement Footprint Collection includes country datasets describing the evolution of the built-area across the globe at a ~30m resolution.