Port performance across the world declined between 2020 and 2024 due to the Red Sea Crisis, challenges at the Panama Canal, ...

Located in Southern Africa, Malawi is landlocked, sharing its borders with Mozambique, Zambia, and Tanzania. The country's estimated population is 21.1million (2023) with an annual growth rate of 2.6% ...

The World Bank strives to enhance public access to and use of data that it collects and publishes. The data are organized in datasets listed in The World Bank Data Catalog (the “Datasets”). The ...

Unlocking the full potential of women and girls is a priority for the World Bank Group. Evidence shows that their full participation in society drives economic productivity, reduces poverty, ...

The DAI is a worldwide index that measures countries’ digital adoption across three dimensions of the economy: people, government, and business. The index covers 180 countries on a 0–1 scale, and ...

How developing countries can measure exposure to the EU’s carbon border adjustment mechanism ...

Financial sector is the set of institutions, instruments, markets, as well as the legal and regulatory framework that permit transactions to be made by extending credit. Fundamentally, financial ...

Today’s global challenges require collective action. The World Bank Group engages with Civil Society Organizations (CSOs) around the globe to create lasting solutions for people and planet. To address ...

The April 2025 edition of Africa’s Pulse reports that economic growth in Sub-Saharan Africa is showing some resilience, despite uncertainty in the global economy and restricted fiscal space. Regional ...

More broad-based economic growth is essential to accelerate progress in boosting shared prosperity. Around one-fifth of the world’s population lives in countries with high inequality. Today, high ...

Seventeen African governments committed to reforms and actionable plans to expand electricity access as part of Mission 300—an ambitious partnership led by the World Bank Group and African Development ...

The World Bank is helping the Madagascar government to fight poverty and improve the living standards.