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World Bank Open Data
What is this?
The World Bank Open Data site provides an entry-point into the World Bank's Data Bank. It includes demographic, developmental, time-series and geospatial data from the Data Bank's data catalogue.
Key points
Time series
Compare multiple countries, regions
Browse by indicator e.g. under categories such as
Agriculture and rural development
Aid effectiveness
Economy and growth
Education
Energy and mining
Gender
Search topics
What can it be used for?
The socio-economic and demographic data can provide context and supporting information for use during budget and expenditure analysis. Researchers can use the portal to find data and then explore and analyse it further using the World Bank’s Data Bank tool.
World Bank Open Data
How can it be accessed and used?
Visit https://data.worldbank.org/
Search or browse for a relevant topic
Select an indicator of interest, e.g. “Incidence of HIV (% of uninfected population ages 15-49)”
Select countries or regions to compare
Select time range
Download data as CSV or Excel
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