Databases & E-Reference Materials

The UNIDO Industrial Statistics Database provides industrial growth and development statistics for over 150 countries from 1963 to present. Data may be searched and filtered in a variety of ways, including by time period/year, country, and ISIC classification code.

Multidisciplinary index covering topics in the sciences, social sciences, and humanities. It is the electronic equivalent of the Arts & Humanities Citation Index, Social Sciences Citation Index, and Science Citation Index. Some full text is available.

Provides access to the archival holdings of the World Bank, along with tools that enable the discovery of World Bank historical information. Resources include archival findings aids, online exhibits, a photo catalog, digital collections, oral histories, archived projects, archived World Bank websites from 1998 to the present, and more.   

This website allows users to browse development topics across all major sectors of global development and easily access data and project resources in one place. Topics include agriculture and food, gender, climate change, debt, education, environment, health, infrastructure, poverty, nutrition, urban development, trade, and many more. 

This repository contains official documents and reports which are made available to the public to better share the institution's knowledge base. Resources include formal publications, working papers, legal agreements, loan/credit related documents, board documents, and in depth background studies. 

This database provides access to over 2,000 World Development Indicators (WDI) from the World Bank data sets covering over 200 countries.

Open Finances makes World Bank’s financials openly available for exploration. The platform offers advanced tools to export, download, and customize financial data, and to create unique visualizations and filtered views. Datasets include loans and credits, procurement, administrative budgets, financial statements, shareholder equity, and more.

The World Bank Open Knowledge Repository (OKR) is the World Bank’s official open access repository for its research outputs and knowledge products. Resources are organized by collection and include books, journal articles, technical papers, country strategy documents, working papers, economic and sector work studies, and speeches. Materials are in English, with over 1000 accompanying documents in other languages, including Arabic, Chinese, Bosnian, French, Japanese, Korean, Polish, Russian, Ukrainian, Turkish, Spanish, and more. 

Explore the World Bank's low-interest loans, zero to low-interest credits, and grants to developing countries. These support a wide array of investments in such areas as education, health, public administration, infrastructure, financial and private sector development, agriculture, and environmental and natural resource management. Projects are browsable by sector, theme, and country.

World Heritage Sites: Africa is a collection of more than 86,000 objects of visual, contextual, and spatial documentation of African heritage and rock art sites. Resources include site plans, diagrams, and maps; 3D models; stereo, digital, and panorama images; manuscripts and books; trade logs; videos; excavation reports; archaeological and ethnographic field notes; personal journals and travelers’ accounts from the 17th century to the 19th century; and more.