insights

Urban access to clean cooking fuels and technologies is high across much of the world, but it is not universally

Forests provide more than timber. They also generate water-related ecosystem services associated with watershed protection, and the World Bank assigns

Natural resource rents make up very different shares of national output across the world. Using a strict 2021 same-year comparison,

Rural access tells a different story from a national clean-cooking average. In the verified 2023 World Bank file, 46 of

The 2020 World Bank data show a striking spread in pastureland natural capital per capita. Across the 150 countries and

A country can have a high urban share without having fast urban population growth, and the reverse can also be

World Bank data show a wide 2020 spread in cropland renewable natural capital per person. Across the verified set of

How many adults have completed education beyond upper secondary and reached at least the short-cycle tertiary level? World Bank World

A global map of national employment-to-population ratios looks simple until the date column is examined. World Bank indicator SL.EMP.TOTL.SP.NE.ZS reports