Dataset

Global development indicators

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Over 1,400 cross-country time series covering roughly 200 economies, GDP, trade, debt, population, health, education and governance, from the World Development Indicators and allied databases, downloadable in bulk or via API.

Dataset card

The Global Development Indicators dataset is published by the World Bank under a CC BY 4.0 license, offering open access to macroeconomic and development statistics. It is tagged with themes including macro, development, gdp, population, and trade.

What this dataset contains

The dataset aggregates World Bank development indicators covering macroeconomic and country-level variables. Tagged themes include macro, development, gdp, population, and trade, suggesting time series on national output, demographic size, and international commerce. Specific column names and record counts are not documented in the available metadata.

Structure and fields

The published schema is listed as unknown, so concrete field names such as country, year, indicator, or value cannot be confirmed from the source. No sample rows or pre-defined train, validation, and test splits are provided. The dataset is delivered as an open download under CC BY 4.0, but exact row counts and storage size are unstated.

How analysts use it

Analysts typically use this dataset for cross-country macro benchmarking, sovereign exposure screening, and long-run demographic or trade trend analysis. Such uses align with the macro, development, gdp, population, and trade tags. Concrete column-level workflows cannot be described because the schema and sample data are not available.

Documentation & references 2
  1. World Bank Open Data/Global development indicators: listing on the provider website
  2. World Bank Open Data: official website

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