Name: Global Financial Inclusion (Global Findex) Database
Creator: World Bank Group
Published: 2012-04-19

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.

BOOST - Public Expenditure Database

This collection contains datasets that may be useful for analysis, response or modelling for the Coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic.

Coronavirus (COVID-19) Related Datasets

The Data360 initiative aims to integrate high-value data and knowledge curated in the Bank’s verticals into a user-centered data platform. 

Data 360

The Development Data Partnership platform facilitates formation of public-private partnerships for solving development challenges with technology. Specifically, the Development Data Partnership Working Group organizes opportunities for WBG staff to work with technology companies who offer pro-bono data and resources.

Development Data Partnership

This collection contains discrepancy indexes for UN COMTRADE data that aims to capture both the frequency of missed reporting and its impact on overall recorded trade value

Discrepancy Index

A collection of datasets produced through partnership between the World Bank and the European Space Agency (ESA) Earth Observation for Sustainable Development (EO4SD) initiative.

Earth Observation for Sustainable Development

Open data and analytics for a sustainable energy future.

Energy Data Info

This collection features datasets to support building policies, institutions and investments for inclusive and sustainable growth.

Equitable Growth, Finance and Institutions

Project Page: https://worldbank.github.io/GEEST/README.html 

As part of the “Geospatial Assessment of Women Employment and Business Opportunities in the Energy Sector” project, open-source Gender-related spatial data was collected for 31 Small Island Developing States (SIDS) across the globe, resulting in curated and thoroughly documented geodatabases (GDBs) that are now ready to be explored! 
Fifty-nine spatial layers were identified and then researched for each country, covering the following categories: Demographics and Population | Renewable Energy | Energy Access | Education | Jobs and Finance | Digital Inclusion | Transportation | Safety | Amenities | Climate/Earth | Law/Policy/Government. 


However, not every country GDB contains all 59 data layers, as this was dependent on the availability of open-source data in each SIDS. Users are encouraged to check the accompanying metadata excel file for more information on the datasets in each GDB, the vintage, and the

Gender Spatial Data - Small Island States

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

Geospatial Datasets

Collection of useful datasets from IMF made available to Bank staff via <a href=http://mydatabank.worldbank.org>myDataBank</a>

IMF Dataset

A collection of datasets to help finance the global infrastructure gap.

Infrastructure Finance Datasets

Data and dataset subscriptions managed by the Library Network on agriculture, business, economics, energy, finance, health, risk, water, and more..

Library Databases

The LinkedIn-World Bank partnership offers data to help governments and researchers understand rapidly evolving labor markets with detailed and dynamic data. It allows leaders to benchmark and compare labor markets across the world; analyze skills, occupations, migration, and industries; and leverage real-time data to make policy changes.Visualizations for many of these data are available at <a href=https://linkedindata.worldbank.org/>linkedindata.worldbank.org</a>

LinkedIn Data for Development

Collection of merchandise trade data available to World Bank staff.

Merchandise Trade Data

This collection includes datasets associated with research organized under the Bank, <a href=http://prwp.worldbank.org target='_blank' title='Opens in a new window'>Policy Research Working Papers</a>.

Policy Research Working Papers

This collection contains data on disaster and climate risk assessments curated by the Global Facility for Disaster Reduction and Recovery (GFDRR).

Risk Data Library

This collection presents software tools and models developed by the World Bank to support monitoring, planning, programming and the economic evaluation of roads and highways works.

Road Software Tools

This spatial database, a product of the South Asia Region Chief Economist's (SARCE) Office, presents data collected from official sources and harmonized into different spatial levels. Data includes economic and environmental data across 12 topic areas, and includes data from four countries in South Asia (Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, and Nepal) for both 2001 and 2011.

SARCE Spatial Database

A collection of country Small Area Estimation (SAE) and Poverty Mapping that contains papers, shapefiles, and datasets produced through partnerships between the World Bank and country statistics offices.

Small area estimates / Poverty mapping

This collection consists of datasets compiled and created by the World Bank Data Lab in response to a request by the Syria Economic Monitor Team to explore alternative data sources to better understand changing trends in trade and economic activity, focusing on: surface cross-border transport routes, changes in observed agricultural production, observed nighttime lights, and reported conflict.

Syria Economic Monitor

A collection of relevant datasets to support operations in Ukraine.

Ukraine datasets

Catalogue lists all the data produced under the partnership contracts between the World Bank Group and the European Space Agency

World Bank (WBG) - European Space Agency (ESA) Database

A collection of datasets to help achieve universal access to reliable and fast internet services for all.

World Bank Digital Development Data

A collection of datasets to help achieve sustainable energy for all.

World Bank Energy Datasets

A collection of datasets to help achieve sustainable mobility for all.

World Bank Transport 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 Bank Water Data

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 2021

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.

World Development Report 2022

The World Settlement Footprint Collection includes country datasets describing the evolution of the built-area across the globe at a ~30m resolution.

World Settlement Footprint

Nurturing user–producer interaction: inclusive innovation flows in a low-income mobile phone market

How important is mobile telephony for economic growth? Evidence from MENA countries

From taxing to subsidizing farmers in China post-1978

The percentage of respondents who report personally using a mobile money service in the past 12 months, out of labor force  (% age 15+)

Mobile money account, out of labor force (% age 15+)

The percentage of respondents who report personally using a mobile money service in the past 12 months, female (% age 15+)

Mobile money account, female (% age 15+)

The percentage of respondents who report personally using a mobile money service in the past 12 months, young adults (% age 15-24)

Mobile money account, young adults  (% age 15-24)

The percentage of respondents who report personally using a mobile money service in the past 12 months, income, poorest 40% (% age 15+)

Mobile money account, income, poorest 40% (% age 15+)

The percentage of respondents who report personally using a mobile money service in the past 12 months, income, richest 50% (% age 15+)

Mobile money account, income, richest 60%  (% age 15+)

The percentage of respondents who report using mobile money, a debit or credit card, or a mobile phone to receive a payment through an account in the past 12 months. It also includes respondents who report receiving remittances, receiving payments for agricultural products, receiving government transfers, receiving wages, or receiving a public sector pension directly into a financial institution account or through a mobile money account in the past 12 months

Received digital payments in the past year (% age 15+)

The percentage of respondents who report using mobile money, a debit or credit card, or a mobile phone to receive a payment through an account in the past 12 months. It also includes respondents who report receiving remittances, receiving payments for agricultural products, receiving government transfers, receiving wages, or receiving a public sector pension directly into a financial institution account or through a mobile money account in the past 12 months, male (% age 15+).

Received digital payments in the past year, male (% age 15+)

The percentage of respondents who report using mobile money, a debit or credit card, or a mobile phone to receive a payment through an account in the past 12 months. It also includes respondents who report receiving remittances, receiving payments for agricultural products, receiving government transfers, receiving wages, or receiving a public sector pension directly into a financial institution account or through a mobile money account in the past 12 months, young adults (% age 15-24)

Received digital payments in the past year, young adults  (% age 15-24)

The percentage of respondents who report using mobile money, a debit or credit card, or a mobile phone to receive a payment through an account in the past 12 months. It also includes respondents who report receiving remittances, receiving payments for agricultural products, receiving government transfers, receiving wages, or receiving a public sector pension directly into a financial institution account or through a mobile money account in the past 12 months, secondary education or more (% age 15+)

Received digital payments in the past year, secondary education or more  (% age 15+)

The percentage of respondents who report using mobile money, a debit or credit card, or a mobile phone to receive a payment through an account in the past 12 months. It also includes respondents who report receiving remittances, receiving payments for agricultural products, receiving government transfers, receiving wages, or receiving a public sector pension directly into a financial institution account or through a mobile money account in the past 12 months, income, richest 50% (% age 15+)

Received digital payments in the past year, income, richest 60%  (% age 15+)

The percentage of respondents who report using mobile money, a debit or credit card, or a mobile phone to receive a payment through an account in the past 12 months. It also includes respondents who report receiving remittances, receiving payments for agricultural products, receiving government transfers, receiving wages, or receiving a public sector pension directly into a financial institution account or through a mobile money account in the past 12 months, rural (% age 15+)

Received digital payments in the past year, rural (% age 15+)

The percentage of respondents who report personally using a mobile money service in the past 12 months

Mobile money account (% age 15+)

The percentage of respondents who report personally using a mobile money service in the past 12 months, male (% age 15+).

Mobile money account, male  (% age 15+)

The percentage of respondents who report personally using a mobile money service in the past 12 months, in labor force  (% age 15+)

Mobile money account, in labor force (% age 15+)

The percentage of respondents who report using mobile money, a debit or credit card, or a mobile phone to make a payment from an account, or report using the internet to pay bills or to buy something online, in the past 12 months. It also includes respondents who report paying bills, sending or receiving remittances, receiving payments for agricultural products, receiving government transfers, receiving wages, or receiving a public sector pension directly from or into a financial institution account or through a mobile money account in the past 12 months, secondary education or more (% age 15+)

Made or received digital payments in the past year, secondary education or more (% age 15+)

The percentage of respondents who report using mobile money, a debit or credit card, or a mobile phone to make a payment from an account, or report using the internet to pay bills or to buy something online, in the past 12 months. It also includes respondents who report paying bills, sending or receiving remittances, receiving payments for agricultural products, receiving government transfers, receiving wages, or receiving a public sector pension directly from or into a financial institution account or through a mobile money account in the past 12 months, income, richest 50% (% age 15+)

Made or received digital payments in the past year, income, richest 60% (% age 15+)

The percentage of respondents who report using mobile money, a debit or credit card, or a mobile phone to make a payment from an account, or report using the internet to pay bills or to buy something online, in the past 12 months. It also includes respondents who report paying bills, sending or receiving remittances, receiving payments for agricultural products, receiving government transfers, receiving wages, or receiving a public sector pension directly from or into a financial institution account or through a mobile money account in the past 12 months, rural (% age 15+)

Made or received digital payments in the past year, rural  (% age 15+)

The percentage of respondents who report using mobile money, a debit or credit card, or a mobile phone to make a payment from an account, or report using the internet to pay bills or to buy something online, in the past 12 months. It also includes respondents who report paying bills or sending remittances directly from a financial institution account or through a mobile money account in the past 12 months, in labor force  (% age 15+)

Made digital payments in the past year, in labor force (% age 15+)

The percentage of respondents who report using mobile money, a debit or credit card, or a mobile phone to make a payment from an account, or report using the internet to pay bills or to buy something online, in the past 12 months. It also includes respondents who report paying bills or sending remittances directly from a financial institution account or through a mobile money account in the past 12 months, out of labor force  (% age 15+)

Made digital payments in the past year, out of labor force  (% age 15+)

The percentage of respondents who report using mobile money, a debit or credit card, or a mobile phone to make a payment from an account, or report using the internet to pay bills or to buy something online, in the past 12 months. It also includes respondents who report paying bills or sending remittances directly from a financial institution account or through a mobile money account in the past 12 months, female (% age 15+)

Made digital payments in the past year, female  (% age 15+)

The percentage of respondents who report using mobile money, a debit or credit card, or a mobile phone to make a payment from an account, or report using the internet to pay bills or to buy something online, in the past 12 months. It also includes respondents who report paying bills or sending remittances directly from a financial institution account or through a mobile money account in the past 12 months, young adults (% age 15-24)

Made digital payments in the past year, young adults  (% age 15-24)

The percentage of respondents who report using mobile money, a debit or credit card, or a mobile phone to make a payment from an account, or report using the internet to pay bills or to buy something online, in the past 12 months. It also includes respondents who report paying bills or sending remittances directly from a financial institution account or through a mobile money account in the past 12 months, secondary education or more (% age 15+)

Made digital payments in the past year, secondary education or more  (% age 15+)

The percentage of respondents who report using mobile money, a debit or credit card, or a mobile phone to make a payment from an account, or report using the internet to pay bills or to buy something online, in the past 12 months. It also includes respondents who report paying bills or sending remittances directly from a financial institution account or through a mobile money account in the past 12 months, income, richest 50% (% age 15+)

Made digital payments in the past year, income, richest 60%  (% age 15+)

The percentage of respondents who report personally receiving any payment from the government in the past 12 months. This includes payments for educational or medical expenses, unemployment benefits, subsidy payments, or any kind of social benefits. It also includes pension payments from the government, military, or public sector as well as wages from employment in the government, military, or public sector, primary education or less (% age 15+)

Received government payments in the past year, primary education or less (% age 15+)

The percentage of respondents who report personally receiving any payment from the government in the past 12 months. This includes payments for educational or medical expenses, unemployment benefits, subsidy payments, or any kind of social benefits. It also includes pension payments from the government, military, or public sector as well as wages from employment in the government, military, or public sector, secondary education or more (% age 15+)

Received government payments in the past year, secondary education or more (% age 15+)

The percentage of respondents who report using mobile money, a debit or credit card, or a mobile phone to make a payment from an account, or report using the internet to pay bills or to buy something online, in the past 12 months. It also includes respondents who report paying bills, sending or receiving remittances, receiving payments for agricultural products, receiving government transfers, receiving wages, or receiving a public sector pension directly from or into a financial institution account or through a mobile money account in the past 12 months

Made or received digital payments in the past year (% age 15+)

The percentage of respondents who report personally receiving any payment from the government in the past 12 months. This includes payments for educational or medical expenses, unemployment benefits, subsidy payments, or any kind of social benefits. It also includes pension payments from the government, military, or public sector as well as wages from employment in the government, military, or public sector

Received government payments in the past year (% age 15+)

The percentage of respondents who report personally receiving any payment from the government in the past 12 months. This includes payments for educational or medical expenses, unemployment benefits, subsidy payments, or any kind of social benefits. It also includes pension payments from the government, military, or public sector as well as wages from employment in the government, military, or public sector, male (% age 15+).

Received government payments in the past year, male (% age 15+)

The percentage of respondents who report personally receiving any payment from the government in the past 12 months. This includes payments for educational or medical expenses, unemployment benefits, subsidy payments, or any kind of social benefits. It also includes pension payments from the government, military, or public sector as well as wages from employment in the government, military, or public sector, out of labor force  (% age 15+)

Received government payments in the past year, out of labor force (% age 15+)

The percentage of respondents who report personally receiving any payment from the government in the past 12 months. This includes payments for educational or medical expenses, unemployment benefits, subsidy payments, or any kind of social benefits. It also includes pension payments from the government, military, or public sector as well as wages from employment in the government, military, or public sector, young adults (% age 15-24)

Received government payments in the past year, young adults (% age 15-24)

The percentage of respondents who report personally receiving any payment from the government in the past 12 months. This includes payments for educational or medical expenses, unemployment benefits, subsidy payments, or any kind of social benefits. It also includes pension payments from the government, military, or public sector as well as wages from employment in the government, military, or public sector, older adults (% age 25+)

Received government payments in the past year, older adults (% age 25+)

The percentage of respondents who report neither a deposit into nor a withdrawal from their account in the past 12 months, rural (% age 15+)

No deposit and no withdrawal from an account in the past year, rural  (% age 15+)

Among respondents with a financial institution account or a mobile money account, the percentage who report neither a deposit into nor a withdrawal from their account in the past 12 months.

No deposit and no withdrawal in the past year (% with an account, age 15+)

Among respondents reporting personally receiving payments from the government in the past 12 months, the percentage who report receiving the payments directly into a financial institution account or into a card.

Received government payments: into a financial institution account (% payment recipients, age 15+)

Among respondents reporting personally receiving payments from the government in the past 12 months, the percentage who report receiving the payments through a mobile phone.

Received government payments: through a mobile phone (% payment recipients, age 15+)

Among respondents reporting personally receiving payments from the government in the past 12 months, the percentage who report receiving the payments in cash only.

Received government payments: in cash only (% payment recipients, age 15+)

The percentage of respondents who report having a credit card, secondary education or more (% age 15+)

Credit card ownership, secondary education or more  (% age 15+)

The percentage of respondents who report having a credit card, income, poorest 40% (% age 15+)

Credit card ownership, income, poorest 40%  (% age 15+)

The percentage of respondents who report neither a deposit into nor a withdrawal from their financial institution account in the past 12 months.

No deposit and no withdrawal from a financial institution account in the past year (% age 15+)

Among respondents with a financial institution account, the percentage who report neither a deposit into nor a withdrawal from their account in the past 12 months.

No deposit and no withdrawal in the past year (% with a financial institution account, age 15+)

The percentage of respondents who report neither a deposit into nor a withdrawal from their account in the past 12 months.

No deposit and no withdrawal from an account in the past year (% age 15+)

The percentage of respondents who report neither a deposit into nor a withdrawal from their account in the past 12 months, male (% age 15+).

No deposit and no withdrawal from an account in the past year, male  (% age 15+)

The percentage of respondents who report neither a deposit into nor a withdrawal from their account in the past 12 months, in labor force  (% age 15+)

No deposit and no withdrawal from an account in the past year, in labor force (% age 15+)

The percentage of respondents who report neither a deposit into nor a withdrawal from their account in the past 12 months, female (% age 15+)

No deposit and no withdrawal from an account in the past year, female (% age 15+)

The percentage of respondents who report neither a deposit into nor a withdrawal from their account in the past 12 months, young adults (% age 15-24)

No deposit and no withdrawal from an account in the past year, young adults  (% age 15-24)

The percentage of respondents who report neither a deposit into nor a withdrawal from their account in the past 12 months, older adults (% age 25+)

No deposit and no withdrawal from an account in the past year, older adults (% age 25+)

The percentage of respondents who report neither a deposit into nor a withdrawal from their account in the past 12 months, secondary education or more (% age 15+)

No deposit and no withdrawal from an account in the past year, secondary education or less (% age 15+)

The percentage of respondents who report having an outstanding loan for a funeral or wedding, in labor force  (% age 15+)

Outstanding loan for a funeral or wedding, in labor force  (% age 15+)

The percentage of respondents who report having an outstanding loan for a funeral or wedding, female (% age 15+)

Outstanding loan for a funeral or wedding, female (% age 15+)

The percentage of respondents who report having an outstanding loan for a funeral or wedding, older adults (% age 25+)

Outstanding loan for a funeral or wedding, older adults  (% age 25+)

The percentage of respondents who report having an outstanding loan for a funeral or wedding, secondary education or more (% age 15+)

Outstanding loan for a funeral or wedding, secondary education or more (% age 15+)

The percentage of respondents who report having a financial institution account and using checks to make payments in the past 12 months.

Used checks to make payments in the past year (% age 15+)

The percentage of respondents who report having a credit card

Credit card ownership (% age 15+)

The percentage of respondents who report having a credit card, young adults (% age 15-24)

Credit card ownership, young adults  (% age 15-24)

The percentage of respondents who report having a credit card, older adults (% age 25+)

Credit card ownership, older adults  (% age 25+)

The percentage of respondents who report personally receiving money from their business, from selling goods, or from providing services (including part-time work) in the past 12 months, income, poorest 40% (% age 15+)

Used a mobile phone or the internet to access an account, income, poorest 40%  (% age 15+)

The percentage of respondents who report personally receiving money from their business, from selling goods, or from providing services (including part-time work) in the past 12 months, income, richest 50% (% age 15+)

Used a mobile phone or the internet to access an account, income, richest 60% (% age 15+)

The percentage of respondents who report personally receiving money from their business, from selling goods, or from providing services (including part-time work) in the past 12 months, rural (% age 15+)

Used a mobile phone or the internet to access an account, rural  (% age 15+)

The percentage of respondents who report personally receiving money from their business, from selling goods, or from providing services (including part-time work) in the past 12 months, young adults (% age 15-24)

Used a mobile phone or the internet to access an account, young adults (% age 15-24)

The percentage of respondents who report personally receiving money from their business, from selling goods, or from providing services (including part-time work) in the past 12 months, older adults (% age 25+)

Used a mobile phone or the internet to access an account, older adults (% age 25+)

The percentage of respondents who report personally receiving money from their business, from selling goods, or from providing services (including part-time work) in the past 12 months in cash only.

Received payments from self-employment: in cash only (% age 15+)

Among respondents reporting personally receiving money from their business, from selling goods, or from providing services (including part-time work) in the past 12 months, the percentage who report receiving this money in cash only.

Received payments from self-employment: in cash only (% payment recipients, age 15+)

The percentage of respondents who report using a mobile phone or the internet to make a payment, to make a purchase, or to send or receive money through their financial institution account in the past 12 months.

Used a mobile phone or the internet to access a financial institution account in the past year (% age 15+)

The percentage of respondents who report personally receiving money from their business, from selling goods, or from providing services (including part-time work) in the past 12 months, male (% age 15+).

Used a mobile phone or the internet to access an account, male (% age 15+)

The percentage of respondents who report personally receiving money from their business, from selling goods, or from providing services (including part-time work) in the past 12 months, out of labor force  (% age 15+)

Used a mobile phone or the internet to access an account, out of labor force  (% age 15+)

The percentage of respondents who report personally receiving money from their business, from selling goods, or from providing services (including part-time work) in the past 12 months, female (% age 15+)

Used a mobile phone or the internet to access an account, female  (% age 15+)

The percentage of respondents who report both using a financial institution account, a card, or a mobile money account to receive money from any source for the sale of agricultural products, crops, produce, or livestock in the past 12 months and opening their first account to receive such agricultural payments.

Received payments for agricultural products: first account opened to receive agricultural payments (% age 15+)

Among respondents reporting using a financial institution account, a card, or a mobile money account to receive money from any source for the sale of agricultural products, crops, produce, or livestock in the past 12 months, the percentage who report opening their first account to receive such agricultural payments.

Received payments for agricultural products: first account opened to receive agricultural payments (% receiving payments into an account, age 15+)

The percentage of respondents who report personally receiving money from their business, from selling goods, or from providing services (including part-time work) in the past 12 months

Global Financial Inclusion (Global Findex) Database

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