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A closer look at the 2026-2027 release of the World Bank Group Country Income Classifications July 01, 2026 Eric Metreau Kathryn Elizabeth Young Shwetha Grace Eapen The Atlas of Global Development 2026 shows the world at a critical moment: it is developing at its slowest pace May 05, 2026 Haishan Fu Umar Serajuddin Divyanshi Wadhwa Daniel Gerszon Mahler Ana Florina Pirlea Maarten Lambrechts Commodity prices broadly unchanged in July — Pink Sheet August 06, 2026 John Baffes Maria Hazel Macadangdang The world is urbanizing fast — the window to get it right is narrowing August 06, 2026 Abhas Jha Divyanshi Wadhwa Tracking the changing role of foreign direct investment and remittances—check the latest WDI data August 05, 2026 Anthony Tin Yu To Sinae Lee Global food security monitoring goes dark August 04, 2026 Bo Andree Daniel Gerszon Mahler Umar Serajuddin Zacharey Carmichael What four charts reveal about the global jobs challenge July 29, 2026 Tommy Chrimes Shiya Luo Kersten Stamm Can income keep up with the rising cost of a healthy diet? New CoAHD data offer fresh insights July 27, 2026 Haishan Fu José Rosero Moncayo Yan Bai Valentina Conti Marko Rissanen Carlo Cafiero World Bank Group Country Classifications by Income Level Who moves up and why? A closer look at the 2026-2027 World Bank Group Country Income Classifications Release July 01, 2026 Understanding country income: World Bank Group income classifications for FY26 July 01, 2025 World Bank country classifications by income level for 2024-2025 July 01, 2024 World Bank Group country classifications by income level for FY24 (July 1, 2023- June 30, 2024) June 30, 2023 New World Bank country classifications by income level: 2022-2023 July 01, 2022 New World Bank country classifications by income level: 2021-2022 July 01, 2021 New World Bank country classifications by income level: 2020-2021 July 01, 2020 Atlas of Global Development 2026 The world is urbanizing fast — the window to get it right is narrowing August 06, 2026 The global internet gap: What the data tells us July 07, 2026 Shared prosperity constitutes both income growth and inequality reduction July 02, 2026 Extreme poverty: hard-won gains, new risks ahead June 18, 2026 Failed twice: weak learning in school, few skills learned on the job June 10, 2026 Can we even measure progress? The state of development data May 28, 2026 Measuring development in years: how far countries are from advanced development May 21, 2026 You can’t course-correct what you can’t see: how data and visualization shape development policy May 20, 2026 How should countries set realistic and ambitious development targets? May 14, 2026 The Atlas of Global Development 2026 shows the world at a critical moment: it is developing at its slowest pace May 05, 2026 Poverty and Inequality Platform (PIP) March 2026 global poverty update from the World Bank: New data and updated poverty numbers March 26, 2026 September 2025 global poverty update from the World Bank: New data and regional classifications September 30, 2025 A dashboard for aggregated poverty data for regional, income, fragile & in-conflict, and World Bank lending groups September 30, 2025 June 2025 global poverty update from the World Bank: 2021 PPPs and new country-data June 05, 2025 September 2024 global poverty update from the World Bank: revised estimates up to 2024 September 20, 2024 March 2024 global poverty update from the World Bank: first estimates of global poverty until 2022 from survey data March 26, 2024 Societal poverty measures in the Poverty and Inequality Platform (PIP) January 09, 2024 Illustrating the gap between the global extreme poor and global emissions October 17, 2023 Updated estimates of the Prosperity Gap October 26, 2023 September 2023 global poverty update from the World Bank: new data on poverty during the pandemic in Asia September 20, 2023 Using PIP’s Statistics Online (SOL) for your poverty and inequality analysis July 26, 2022 How to use PIP’s API June 13, 2022 How to use PIP’s Statistics Online (SOL) June 06, 2022 How to use PIP’s Poverty Calculator page May 31, 2022 How to use PIP’s Country Profiles page May 23, 2022 How to use the PIP Homepage May 16, 2022 Commodity Markets Outlook 2026 Beverage prices retreat as supplies recover July 07, 2026 Precious metals retreat from record highs June 26, 2026 Coal’s unexpected comeback: Middle East conflict drives a return to coal power June 17, 2026 Metal prices surge as supply pressures intensify June 11, 2026 Natural gas market: LNG trade disruptions and market rebalancing June 04, 2026 Food prices feel the heat as war in the Middle East rattles commodity markets May 22, 2026 Strait of Hormuz disruption sends oil prices surging May 07, 2026 Fertilizer prices surge as Strait of Hormuz disruptions tighten supplies May 14, 2026 Steady gains in agricultural raw material prices May 28, 2026 Poverty, Prosperity, and Planet Report: Pathways Out of the Polycrisis Declining trends in national inequality January 29, 2025 Three ways to use the Prosperity Gap index January 22, 2025 The Prosperity Gap incorporates a penalty for high inequality January 15, 2025 Global Prosperity Gap: the World Bank’s new measure for shared prosperity January 08, 2025 The demographic profile of the global poor: Who are the poor and where do they live? December 11, 2024 The geography of high inequality: monitoring the World Bank’s new indicator December 04, 2024 Filling the gaps in survey data for a world free of poverty on a livable planet November 27, 2024 Getting to zero: Focusing on IDA countries for ending poverty November 21, 2024 The disconnect between regions at risk from climate-related hazards and those that contribute to global greenhouse gas emissions November 15, 2024 Global poverty and climate goals will remain out of reach with business-as-usual policies November 06, 2024 A higher standard of poverty in a changing world: The World Bank’s poverty line of $6.85 October 31, 2024 The polycrisis behind a lost decade of poverty reduction October 24, 2024 Blueprint for Change: Ending Poverty on a livable planet is possible October 17, 2024 International Comparison Program New International Comparison Program data sheds light on global economy and living standards May 30, 2024 Demystifying ICP purchasing power parity calculations using Python: Global results March 23, 2023 Demystifying ICP purchasing power parity calculations using Python: Regional results April 07, 2021 How much do countries spend on education, and how do the price levels of education compare? 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January 24, 2023 From local prices to the global economy: how data from the International Comparison Program help us monitor progress towards the Sustainable Development Goals March 17, 2022 The size of the Asia and the Pacific economy based on purchasing power parities: results from the International Comparison Program April 08, 2021 Purchasing Power Parities for Policy Making: a Visual Guide to Using Data from the International Comparison Program June 17, 2021 International Debt Report International Debt Report 2025: When relief isn’t enough – LMICs face their largest external debt outflows in 50 years December 03, 2025 Introducing the new guide to the International Debt Statistics (IDS) database December 16, 2024 International Debt Report 2024: Low- and middle-income countries’ debt stock increased by US$205.9 billion in 2023 December 03, 2024 The data behind the International Debt Report 2023 April 23, 2024 Celebrating 50 years of the International Debt Report December 13, 2023 International Debt Statistics 2022: Multilateral institutions paved the way for the highest level of net inflows raised in a decade October 11, 2021 International Debt Statistics 2021: Debt accumulation of low- and middle-income countries surpassed $8 trillion at end-2019 October 12, 2020 International Debt Statistics 2020: Promoting debt transparency through newly published debtor classifications November 14, 2019 International Debt Statistics 2019: External debt stocks at end-2017 stood at over $7 trillion November 13, 2018 Featured Bloggers Haishan Fu John Baffes Christoph Lakner Heather Moylan Haruna Kashiwase Latest Blogs See more posts Get updates from Data Blog worldbank twit worldbank whatsup-solid opendata en {"ar":"prod-blogs-opendata-ar-aem-8acb204d6bb8bf5ef799dd566a81052e","ru":"prod-blogs-opendata-ru-aem-afb0661d274a05d4a006c1eec98e9312","en":"prod-blogs-opendata-en-aem-b4a703f3baab08f57e6c708e81c128a1","fr":"prod-blogs-opendata-fr-aem-a52bcdc155d27e0f7942b09aef9dc806","es":"prod-blogs-opendata-es-aem-dff33f8ee9a6458e13fd7de7d22cb1e8","zh":"prod-blogs-opendata-zh-aem-1367c2d70933e12bc133066f7e2ef5ed"} https://blogs.worldbank.org/content/dam/sites/blogs/logos/logo-en.png https://blogs.worldbank.org/en/home World Bank Blogs Data Blog Data Blog (English) Blog de Données (Français) Blog de Datos (Español) مدونة البيانات (العربية) Точка зрения (Русский) 数据博客 (中文) Hi Thank you for subscribing! <p>Thank you for choosing to be part of the [channelTitle] community!</p><p>Your subscription is now active. 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