World Bank Products

Thank you for your interest in World Bank products. Here you will find information on other online resources available from the World Bank, as well as various useful links.

World Bank Publications

To search for or purchase a World Bank publication, go to the World Bank publications catalog available at www.worldbank.org/pubcatalog.

Resolve a DOI

To access a particular publication by resolving a DOI (e.g. 10.1596/978-0-19-520788-0), type the publication’s DOI into the text box below.

Online Resources

The World Bank Web Site gives you access to a wealth of information on the World Bank and its projects and activities.

As part of the Access to Information Policy, the following World Bank databases are now free and open to the public.

World Development Indicators (WDI) Online is the premier data source on the global economy. It contains statistical data, development indicators, and time series data for over 220 countries and country groups.

Global Development Finance (GDF) Online contains statistical data for the 128 individual countries that report to the World Bank's Debtor Reporting System (DRS).

Africa Development Indicators (ADI) Online provides the most comprehensive collection of data on Africa available. It is designed to provide all those interested in Africa with a focused and convenient set of data about development programs and aid flows in the region.

To go to the Bank's new open data site, please visit http://data.worldbank.org.  The Data Catalog at http://data.worldbank.org/data-catalog includes information on several other databases such as:

Global Economic Monitor (GEM) is a one-stop portal for analysis of current economic trends and for economic and financial indicators. It features up-to-date analysis on global economic conditions, including a daily brief and event-driven focus reports, forecasts for commodity prices and main macroeconomic indicators for over 130 countries. To go directly to GEM website, please go to http://www.worldbank.org/gem.

Doing Business provides objective measures of business regulations and their enforcement across 183 economies and selected cities at the sub-national and regional level.

Education Statistics provides data on education from national statistical reports, statistical annexes of new publications, and other data sources.

Gender Statistics provides data on key gender topics. Themes included are demographics, education, health, labor force, and political participation.

The World Bank eAtlas of the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) translates MDG-related data into engaging maps that provide a visual representation of global and country-specific progress toward achieving the MDGs.

Mobile Applications

The World Bank has a growing list of mobile phone applications that provide access to a wealth of World Bank information and cover a range of development topics. Visit apps.worldbank.org to find out more.

We are proud to announce the latest addition to our suite of mobile phone applications, The World Development Report 2012 App for iPad. This free app lets users easily locate the analysis, data, and policy recommendations of most interest throughout the report in new and multiple ways.

Browse the entire report, broken into dozens of major discussions, by key message, region, topic, or key words color-coded for country, concept, and chapter. A user interested in “maternal mortality,” for example, would find five discussions, three tables, and one map from within multiple chapters, each about that issue. (The app also contains a full PDF of the report.) A rich set of data in tabular and graphical formats is also available. Bookmark this content for later viewing and share it by emailing and posting on Facebook, LinkedIn, and Twitter.

In addition to the full report in English, the app includes a wealth of bonus material that helps users understand the report and gender issues better such as the Overview and Main Messages of the report in Arabic, Chinese, French, Portuguese, Spanish, and Russian, as well as English. Videos in the multimedia pane offer interviews with women from around the world about gender issues, with the WDR authors, and with World Bank President Robert B. Zoellick via the World Bank's YouTube channel.

For more information, visit http://apps.worldbank.org/wdr2012.