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Uncertain Recovery in Nine Charts

2022 has been a year of uncertainty. Education losses, global inflation, disruptions in supply chains, and other global challenges remind us that the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic continue to linger. View a snapshot of this work in nine charts.

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THE WORLD BANK GROUP AT COP15

Securing Our Future Through Biodiversity

Biodiversity is our planet’s wealth and a cornerstone of development, and its loss threatens many hard-won development gains. The World Bank Group is attending COP15 on Biodiversity to emphasize that the global decline of nature is a critical development issue.

Ghana: Supporting Small and Medium Enterprises to Recover from the COVID-19 Pandemic

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In Focus: The World Bank and Africa

Sub-Saharan Africa, home to more than 1 billion people, half of whom will be under 25 years old by 2050, is a diverse continent offering human and natural resources that have the potential to yield inclusive growth and eradicate poverty in the region. Our work in the region is focused around four main areas: saving lives, protecting poor people, protecting and creating jobs, and building back better.

Debt

Debt-Service Payments Put Biggest Squeeze on Poorest Countries

Debt-service payments from the International Development Association's (IDA) countries are projected to top $62 billion in 2022. The world's poorest countries now spend over a tenth of their export revenues to service their long-term public and publicly guaranteed external debt..

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The World Bank has two goals: end extreme poverty and promote shared prosperity in a sustainable way.

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Food Security

Food security is defined when all people, at all times, have physical and economic access to sufficient safe and nutritious food that meets their dietary needs and food preferences for an active and healthy life.

NEW: Global Food & Nutrition Security Dashboard
Food Security Update (Dec.1)
BLOG: Towards an informed, transparent, and accountable response for global food and nutrition security
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Climate Change

Climate change, poverty, and inequality are the defining issues of our age. The World Bank Group is the biggest multilateral funder of climate investments in developing countries.

World Bank Group Climate Change Action Plan 2021–2025
Climate Action Stories
BLOG - David Malpass: Action and impact
BLOG - Mari Pangestu: The Human Face of Climate Change
BLOG - Axel Van Trotsenburg: Where is the money? A call for transparency in climate finance at COP27
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International Development Association (IDA)

IDA is the part of the World Bank that helps the world’s poorest countries.

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IDA 20 Highlights
BLOG: World Bank support to the poorest countries: 5 things to know about IDA20
International Development Association (IDA)
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The Open Data site is designed to make World Bank data easy to find, download, and use. All of the data found here can be used free of charge with minimal restrictions.

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GHG emissions by continent 1900-2019 GHG emissions by continent 1900-2019

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Given the short-term potency of methane, cost-effective interventions to reduce methane emissions should be an immediate priority for the sectors with the largest emissions. The agriculture, energy, sanitation and waste sectors are collectively responsible for 90-95% of global anthropogenic sources of methane.

The World Bank Group (WBG) has a long record of engagement on methane reduction across the key areas of agriculture, energy, and sanitation and waste. The table below provides examples of extensive WBG work in this area, including various types of project activities that will reduce methane emissions.

Methane Factsheet

Education is a powerful driver of development and one of the strongest instruments for reducing poverty and improving health, gender equality, peace, and stability. Developing countries have made tremendous progress in getting children into the classroom and the majority of children worldwide are now in primary school. Nevertheless, some 260 million children are still out of primary and secondary school. Learn More.

By 2030, an additional 68.8 million teachers will need to be recruited just for primary and secondary: 20 million are required to expand access to primary and secondary school and 49 million are needed to replace those who leave the workforce. In addition, the childcare workforce needs to expand by 32 million globally to address the childcare gap. Read More.