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April 15, 2016 by Gary Price

Open Data: Reference: World Bank Releases 2016 World Data Indicators (Report, Database, Files), 1400 Indicators From 200 Nations

April 15, 2016 by Gary Price

From a World Bank Data Blog Post:

2016-04-15_13-50-05@ith over 1 million downloads last year, WDI is the most widely used dataset in our Open Data Catalog and it provides high-quality cross-country comparable statistics about development and people’s lives around the globe. You can download or query the database, read the publication and access the statistical tables.
update the WDI database quarterly and make historical versions available, this annual release of a new edition is an opportunity to review the trends we’re seeing in global development and discuss updates we’ve made to our data and methods.
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Producing WDI is only possible with the help of over 50 international organizations, more than 200 national statistical offices and the experts in the country offices, Global Practices and Cross Cutting Solution Areas of the World Bank.
But we have a global challenge: only a few of the 169 targets in the Sustainable Development Goals can currently be tracked and measured completely. Both governments and development partners will need to continue investing in national statistical systems and other public institutions, where much of the data will continue to originate. At the same time, the statistical community needs to strengthen partnerships with the private sector and other emerging actors for advancing new techniques for data collection, analysis, and use.

We encourage you to review the complete blog post for info about some changes made in the 2016 edition.
Direct Links to World Data Indicator Resources

  • WDI 2016 Highlights: Featuring the Sustainable Development Goals (PDF)
  • WDI 2016 Full Text Publication (PDF)
  • Online Tables
  • Income, Regional and Highlight Maps (PDF and AI format)
  • Little Data Book 2016
  • WDI 2016 brochure (PDF)
  • Download Report by Section (PDF)
    • Frontmatter
    • 1. World view
    • 2. People
    • 3. Environment
    • 4. Economy
    • 5. States and markets
    • 6. Global links
    • Backmatter
  • Country, Topic, and Indicator pages
  • Data catalog downloads (Excel | CSV)
  • WDI: Sustainable Development Goals Dashboards – coming soon
  • DataBank
  • API
  • WDI Archives:
    • WDI 2015
    • WDI Database Archives (beta)

Apps
Data Finder Apps (iOS and Android) – 2016 editions coming soon

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About Gary Price

Gary Price (gprice@gmail.com) is a librarian, writer, consultant, and frequent conference speaker based in the Washington D.C. metro area. He earned his MLIS degree from Wayne State University in Detroit. Price has won several awards including the SLA Innovations in Technology Award and Alumnus of the Year from the Wayne St. University Library and Information Science Program. From 2006-2009 he was Director of Online Information Services at Ask.com.

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