Collections are groups of data originating from the World Bank and other international, regional and national organizations.

BOOST - Public Expenditure Database

The BOOST initiative is a Bank-wide collaborative effort launched in 2010 to facilitate access to budget data and promote effective use for improved decision-making processes, transparency and accountability.

Coronavirus (COVID-19) Related Datasets

This collection contains datasets that may be useful for analysis, response or modelling for the Coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic.

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

This collection contains discrepancy indexes for UN COMTRADE data that aims to capture both the frequency of missed reporting and its impact on overall recorded trade value

Earth Observation for Sustainable Development

A collection of datasets produced through partnership between the World Bank and the European Space Agency (ESA) Earth Observation for Sustainable Development (EO4SD) initiative.

Energy Data Info

Open data and analytics for a sustainable energy future.

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

As part of the “Geospatial Assessment of Women Employment and Business Opportunities in the Energy Sector” project, an effort was carried out to collect open-source Gender related spatial datasets for 31 SIDS across the globe, resulting in curated and thoroughly documented data repositories, ready to be explored

Geospatial Datasets

A collection of datasets that contain geospatial data. These datasets have one or more resources in a geospatial data format.

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

This collection presents software tools and models developed by the World Bank to support monitoring, planning, programming and the economic evaluation of roads and highways works.

Small area estimates / Poverty mapping

A collection of country Small Area Estimation (SAE) and Poverty Mapping that contains papers, shapefiles, and datasets produced through partnerships between the World Bank and country statistics offices.

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

This collection consists of datasets compiled and created by the World Bank Data Lab in response to a request by the Syria Economic Monitor Team to explore alternative data sources to better understand changing trends in trade and economic activity, focusing on: surface cross-border transport routes, changes in observed agricultural production, observed nighttime lights, and reported conflict.

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

From Data to a Water-Secure World for All. World Bank Water Data surrounding the three pillars of Sustain Water Resources, Deliver Services and Build Resilience.

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.