The Sovereign ESG Data Portal is updated with the most recent data in the ESG landscape. This update includes the annual income classifications update and updates to poverty headlines. Many of our 191 existing datasets have been updated to include data through 2024. Curious about the details? Read on to see what is new in this data story.

The CCDR series highlights priorities outlined in the Country Climate and Development Reports with a focus on sustainable financing. Viet Nam has an ambitious agenda to achieve high income status by 2045 and follow a net-zero emission path by 2050.

The CCDR series highlights priorities outlined in the CCDRs with a focus on sustainable financing. Brazil is uniquely equipped to harness climate action as a powerful engine for growth, unlocking the productivity increases required to transition toward high-income status.

The CCDR series highlights priorities outlined in the Country Climate and Development Reports and draws connections to the data offerings of the Sovereign ESG data portal.

The Sovereign ESG Data Portal is updated with the most recent data in the ESG landscape. This update increased the number of indicators to almost 200, available for 214 economies up to 2024. The World Bank is continuously refining the ESG framework and empowering users to make their own comprehensive analyses. Curious what’s new? Read about the details in this data story.

The Sovereign ESG Data Portal is updated with the most recent data in the ESG landscape. This update increased the number of indicators to 171, available for 213 economies up to 2023. The World Bank is continuously refining the ESG framework and empowering users to make their own comprehensive analyses. Curious what’s new? Read about the details in this data story.

Latin America’s trend towards sustainability enhancing financial instruments is on the rise. New data allows for sub-annual, sub-national and context-tailored deforestation KPIs.

Showcasing the Peruvian Amazon, we see how cloud cover challenges can be tackled to monitor forest changes more presicely using a new data product.

This March, our Sovereign ESG Data Portal got expanded with new country data and extended timelines. It is now possible to gain insights into our 135 indicators with the most recent data up to 2022.

Drought is a major hydroclimatic hazard, with vast and varied socioeconomic and environmental impacts across the world. Between 1970 and 2019, drought affected about 55 million people every year, leading to significant loss of human life with more than 650,000 deaths

The peer comparison method provides a robust, transparent and intuitive way to assess whether a country's sustainability performance was extraordinary or nothing special — compared to its peers. It allows investors to link financial incentives with key performance indicators and reward “better-than-expected” performance.

Since the launch of our Sovereign ESG Data Portal (BETA) back in 2019, the ESG investing space has grown by leaps and bounds. ESG has become such a central point of discussion that it's hard to find a financial newspaper doesn't feature an article about climate, sustainability or green finance on its front page.

The Economic and Social Rights Performance Score is one of the new indicators in the Sovereign ESG data portal. This dataset was developed by the Human Rights Measurment Initiative and that quantifies the Quality of Life across five dimensions. Right to education, right to food, right to health, right to housing and right to work. These scores measure how well a country is using its resources to ensure people's economic and social rights are fulfilled. By nature of its constructuion, the score automatically adjusts for the ingrained income bias.

Wealth accounting—the balance sheet for a country—captures the value of all the assets that generate income and support human well-being. Gross domestic product (GDP) indicates how much monetary income or output a country creates in a year; wealth indicates the value of the underlying national assets