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World Bank Global Economic Prospects 2022. Photo credit: Victor Idrogo/World Bank After rebounding to an estimated 5.5 percent in 2021, global growth is expected to decelerate markedly in 2022—to 4.1 percent, reflecting continued COVID-19 flare-ups, diminished fiscal support, and lingering supply bottlenecks.

Infographic October 27, 2021 Measuring the Wealth of Nations Understanding the complete picture of a country's wealth is essential to charting a broad-based suitable development path. The Changing Wealth of Nations 2021 goes beyond economic output, to estimate global wealth form 1995-2018 based on natural, human and produced capital. PUBLICATION

The Statistical Performance Indicators (SPI) developed by the World Bank are a breakthrough in assessing the performance of those institutions that measure our economic and social reality. Displaying twenty-two dimensions in five pillars, the framework provides an ambitious sketch of a modern statistical system across high- and low-income ...

Monitoring and evaluation systems can stimulate public debate and hold governments accountable. M&E systems must be supported at the highest level of government and sustained over time. Good government is key to inclusive economic development, and accountability key to good government. Enter monitoring and evaluation (M&E) – programs and ...

The World Bank's premier data compilation, the World Development Indicators, takes a comprehensive view of the world, presenting over 1500 indicators relevant to development. It includes many of the official SDG indicators as well as other data that are relevant to SDGs.

According to the Worldwide Bureaucracy Indicators, globally the public sector accounts for around 25% of GDP and 38% of formal employment. Generating efficiency gains in the public sector can, therefore, have important implications for a country’s overall economic performance.

The March 2021 global poverty update from the World Bank revises the previously published global and regional estimates from 1981 to 2017. In summary, the updated poverty estimates continue to show a decrease in global poverty up until 2017, and to 2018/2019 for some regions, which predates the reversal projected for 2020 as a result of COVID-19.

English 2 Updated country income classifications are available here. The World Bank assigns the world’s economies [1] to four income groups—low, lower-middle, upper-middle, and high income. The classifications are updated each year on July 1 and are based on the GNI per capita of the previous year (2021).