What is Data360?
The World Bank’s Open Data portal is becoming Data360, an even more comprehensive, integrated set of curated development data from across the World Bank Group and partners. By opening up to 300 million data points in one place and by launching new search and analytics functions, Data360 is designed to make World Bank Group and partner data more accessible, user-friendly, and actionable for a wide range of data users around the world.
What are the goals of Data360?
Data360 aims to improve the coherence and quality of the production, management, documentation, and dissemination of development data. The goal of Data360 is to support evidence-based decision-making to advance development, and to help ensure that a wealth of high quality, useful data is easy to access and use for analysis, strategic planning, and policy action.
How is Data360 different from the World Bank Group’s other data portals?
Data360 sources, organizes, documents, and consolidates datasets and indicators from across the World Bank Group, giving users access to 40 times more data than was previously available on the World Bank’s open data portal. Leveraging the foundational work of its predecessor, ProsperityData360, Data360 is a trustworthy, useful, and integrated one-stop-shop for development data covering more than 200 economies around the world.
How does Data360 align with the World Bank Group’s efforts to become a better Bank?
The World Bank Group is renewing its approach to knowledge, ensuring that the best global knowledge can help drive development, create scalable projects, and influence global conversations. As the World Bank Group’s Knowledge Compact, recognizes, to better harness the power of data for development, we need to make development data more accessible and user-friendly for our staff, client countries, partners, and the wider world. Data360 is at the core of these efforts.
Where can I access the World Development Indicators?
The World Development Indicators are integrated into Data360 and accessible via search. The World Development Indicators are also searchable by economy and indicator, and many more tools and bulk download capabilities are available at https://datatopics.worldbank.org/world-development-indicators/.
How does Data360 align with the World Bank Group’s efforts to become a better Bank?
The World Bank Group has renewed its commitment to creating and sharing data-driven analytics to shape development, create scalable projects, and inform the global development discourse. As the World Bank Group’s Knowledge Compact for Action emphasizes, to better harness the power of data for development, development data must be accessible, discoverable, and user-friendly. Data360 is at the core of these efforts.
What are Data360’s key features?
Data Integration: Data360 is an integrated ecosystem for development data production, storage, management, and dissemination, including offering enterprise-grade data systems, tools, standards, and processes. Data360 thus offers a single, integrated, coherent World Bank Group data portal with a dedicated space for each of the Bank’s five development focus areas (Digital, Infrastructure, People, Planet, and Prosperity), showcasing curated data topics, featured datasets, country analytics, and resources.
Leveraging the World Bank Data Catalog: Data360 is built on top of the Bank’s single point of truth, the World Bank’s Data Catalog , and leverages its data storage and cataloging.
Data Quality: Metadata for datasets and indicators in Data360 conform to the WBG Policy on Development Data Quality, to enable more and better discoverability and machine understandability.
Data Discoverability: Data360 allows for greater data disaggregation by sex, age, employment, ___location, income, education level, and more, making development data easier to analyze.
Advanced Analytics: Data360 enables users to create custom data reports for core analytics, flagships, briefs, and more.
Comprehensive Resources: Data360 offers easy-to-use data visualization tools, factsheets, and advanced search capabilities to provide users with quick access to reliable data.
Scorecard Alignment: Data360 and the World Bank Group’s Scorecard are tightly aligned, ensuring integration and consistency.
User-centric: Data360’s functionality has been shaped by user input, leveraging broad and ongoing user engagements and feedback. This effort includes enhancements to benchmarking, products, tools, maps, apps, and more.
Single Entry Point: Data360 has been merged into the World Bank’s primary open data site, data.worldbank.org, capitalizing on the platform’s high visibility among users to further maximize discoverability and use of World Bank Group data and analytics, and to leverage its API functionality. Data360 is being rolled out in stages, with the initial release retaining data.worldbank.org’s key features. These will be fully incorporated into Data360 over time.
Automation: Data360 features indicator processing, workflows, and systems to ensure continual updates of the site with the latest data as it becomes available.
What are Data360’s key functionalities?
Through its enhanced search function, Data360 puts data at users’ fingertips and allows for greater disaggregation, making development data easier to access and discover. Its advanced analytics enable users to create customized data reports and visualizations with ease. And Data360’s comprehensive resources—including easy-to-use data visualization tools, factsheets, and reports—provide easy access to reliable data.
Data360 enables data users to quickly create custom data reports for core analytics, flagships, briefs, and more, making it easier to develop diagnostics, country or topic briefings, and other useful data analytics. Key features of Data360 include:
Everything in one place: Data users can explore the Data360 Data & Resources section to access a spectrum of curated datasets, country analytics, and key indicators across the World Bank’s five development focus areas (Digital, Infrastructure, People, Planet, and Prosperity). Data users can access a range of development insights—by country, region, and trend—faster than ever before.
A 360-degree view of any economy: The new Data360 Economy Profile provides a comprehensive picture of economic and social development— from education to infrastructure to climate to public finance, and more, data users can seamlessly access curated analytics, benchmarking tools, and country comparisons.
Data & Analytics for impact: Data users can likewise explore the Data360 Analytics section to navigate more than 2,000 World Bank reports and analyses, from Economy Analytics to Economy Fact Sheets to Global Reports, on economic and social trends.
Futureproof data: Data360 sources, organizes, and documents datasets and indicators in line with the WBG Policy on Development Data Quality, to enable more and better discoverability and machine understandability of development data.
Data360’s API. Data360 is API-enabled, available here: https://data360.worldbank.org/en/api
Data360 terms and conditions
Data360 data and resources are subject to the terms and conditions set by the World Bank and specified here
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Exceptions for Some Third-Party Data
Some datasets and indicators are provided by third parties, and may not be redistributed or reused without the consent of the original data provider, or may be subject to terms and conditions that are different from those described above. Where applicable, these conditions are included in the dataset or indicator metadata.
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Data and metadata included in the Data360 that are not produced by the World Bank, but retrieved from external sources are redistributed for informational purposes only. The redistribution of this data does not constitute an endorsement, approval, or verification of its quality, accuracy, methodology, or any other characteristic by the World Bank. Users of this data assume full responsibility for any conclusions drawn or decisions made based on its use.
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Questions
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