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data.worldbank.org opens World Bank databases to all users and includes World Development Indicators (WDI) -- one of the world’s most reliable and comprehensive databases on developing economies--, Doing Business, and many others. These data give a better understanding the human condition in some of the poorest countries and developing ...

World Bank Group. With support from the Global Water Security & Sanitation Partnership (GWSP), the World Bank has just launched the World Bank Water Data Portal. For the first time ever, a curated list of water data from the World Bank and other sources and institutions is now available in one place. Much like water, data is all around us.

The database uses satellite data from NASA’s OCO (Orbiting Carbon Observatory)-2 satellite, which provides reliable information about global CO2 emissions at high levels of spatial resolution. OCO-2 follows a sun-synchronous near-polar orbit, crosses the equator in ascending mode around 1330 hours local time and has an observation repeat time ...

The database was constructed by integrating comprehensive information from overlapping habitat maps of 6,532 amphibians, 5,435 mammals, 4,291 reptiles, and 11,126 birds. These authoritative habitat maps represent all known and catalogued species in each area from the International Union for Conservation of Nature and Birdlife International, ...

An explosion of data. Global data traffic has increased one thousand times over the last 20 years. Data travel thousands of kilometers along this seamless global data infrastructure supply chain at breathtaking speeds of 200,000 kilometers per second—meaning that digital data can, in principle, circle the globe five times within a second ...

Violence against women and girls (VAWG) is a global pandemic. One out of three women and girls (35%) worldwide between the ages of 15 and 49 has experienced physical violence, sexual violence, or both. Using data from the Gender Data Portal we can see that at least 200 million girls and women have undergone female genital mutilation (FGM), and ...

AWS is proud to make the Light Every Night data available through our Registry of Open Data on AWS. Making global nighttime imagery more widely accessible will allow researchers to process data in-place on the cloud, enabling new large-scale, long-term analyses that can help inform insights into historical trends like population change, economic development, and energy consumption.

A debt management IT system is the backbone of any sovereign debt management office. A robust, well-functioning and user-friendly system allows governments to support their debt related operations. This in turn strengthens the public financial management environment of the country. In a recent Policy Research Working Paper, “ Study on Public ...

Who are the Unbanked? Approximately 2.5 billion people do not have access to financial services and are forced to rely on inconvenient and often risky means to manage their money. This infographic shows data from the Global Findex, which is a new global financial inclusion database that measures the use of financial services and identifies the ...

For example, the World Bank is piloting an electronic database and information management system in Uganda to support the implementation of a rural electrification program. The system will use a mobile application, pre-paid electricity meters, and a web-based application to track customer data and power consumption on over 1 million connections ...