Collections

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.

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.

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

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).

Ukraine datasets

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 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.