Search
-
New time series of global subnational population estimates launched
https://blogs.worldbank.org/opendata/new-time-series-global-subnational-population-estimates-launchedEnglish. 6. We've just launched a new, pilot global subnational population database featuring time series population estimates for 75 countries at the first-level administrative divisions (provinces, states, or regions). The database has time series data that spans 15 years (2000-2014), with total population numbers for each area and the shares ...
-
Telling the story of Bangladesh’s growth and challenges with data
https://blogs.worldbank.org/endpovertyinsouthasia/telling-story-bangladeshs-growth-and-challenges-dataThe Database has three components and organized into: 1. Zila-level data and visualization. Organized around the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), this database contains indicators for each of Bangladesh’s 64 zilas (districts), covering a range of topics including poverty, nutrition, fertility, health, access to services, and more.
-
Financial Institutions and Markets across Countries and over Time: The ...
https://openknowledge.worldbank.org/bitstream/handle/10986/4515/wber_24_1_77.pdf?sequence=1outside the World Bank. 2 The database has also sparked further efforts within the Bank to collect Þnancial sector indicators, on both a global and a regional level, and to benchmark countries. The revised database contains a select number of Þnancial system indicators that are readily available for a large number of countries over 1960Ð2007.
-
Introducing WBGAPI: A new python package for accessing World Bank data
https://blogs.worldbank.org/opendata/introducing-wbgapi-new-python-package-accessing-world-bank-dataEnglish. Version 1.0.4 of the wbgapi python package is now available. This package has been in the Python Package Index for almost a year, and the latest version adds several new features to make exploring and searching databases easier and more interactive. Python packages for World Bank data have been around for a while, but WBGAPI is ...
-
World Development Indicators 2017 - World Bank
https://openknowledge.worldbank.org/handle/10986/26447This year the World Development Indicators database has been improved to include more indicators that cover the Sustainable Development Goals and more data disaggregated by sex, age, wealth quintile, and urban or rural location. New data include access to clean cooking fuels and the number of industrial design applications registered globally.
-
La base de datos Global Findex | 2017 - World Bank
https://openknowledge.worldbank.org/bitstream/handle/10986/29510/211259ovSP.pdfEste cuadernillo contiene tanto la reseña como la lista de contenidos de La base de datos Global Findex 2017: Medición de la inclusión financiera y la revolución de la tecnología financiera, doi: 10.1596/978-1-4648-1259-0. Una vez publicado el libro completo, se podrá consultar la versión en PDF en https://openknowledge
-
Why we need more sex-disaggregated social protection data and what we ...
https://blogs.worldbank.org/opendata/why-we-need-more-sex-disaggregated-social-protection-data-and-what-were-doing-get-thereOut of the 125 countries covered in the ASPIRE database, only 34 collect the receipt of social protection benefits at the individual level; most of these are in Latin America and the Caribbean. An additional 52 countries collect this information at both individual and household levels, while 39 countries collect all social protection variables ...
-
International Debt Statistics 2022: Multilateral institutions paved the ...
https://blogs.worldbank.org/opendata/international-debt-statistics-2022-multilateral-institutions-paved-way-highest-level-netLast year, a DSSI supplement to the IDS database was created and provided disaggregation by select multilateral and bilateral creditors of projected debt service payments for 2020 -2022 on an annual and monthly basis. This year, the database now includes the actual debt service deferred in 2020 by each bilateral creditor and the projected ...
-
Intergenerational Mobility around the World
https://openknowledge.worldbank.org/handle/10986/35827Using individual data from over 400 surveys, this paper compiles a global database of intergenerational mobility in education for 153 countries covering 97 percent of the world’s population. For 87 percent of the world’s population, it provides trends in intergenerational mobility for individuals born between 1950 to 1989.
-
Women, Business and the Law 2020 - World Bank
https://openknowledge.worldbank.org/bitstream/handle/10986/32639/9781464815324.pdfFINDINGS 1 •er performance in the areas measured by the Bett Women, Business and the Law index is associated with more women in the labor force and with higher income and improved development outcomes. • Since 2017, 40 economies have enacted 62 reforms enhancing gender equality. • The economies that improved the most are Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, Nepal, South Sudan, São ...