The World Bank has launched a new website, data.worldbank.org. Key points from today's informative press release:
The World Bank Group said today it will offer free access to more than 2,000 financial, business, health, economic and human development statistics that had mostly been available only to paying subscribers.
For the first time, data will be available in languages other than English, with an initial 330 indicators translated into French, Spanish and Arabic.
The new website at data.worldbank.org offers full access to data from 209 countries, with some of the data going back 50 years. Users will be able to download entire datasets for a particular country or indicator, quickly access raw data, click a button to comment on the data, email and share data with social media sites, says Neil Fantom, a senior statistician at the World Bank.
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