The world's income map has shifted since 1987.

Low-income countries went from 30% to 11%
High-income economies went from 25% to 41%

Learn more with the recently launched 2026-2027 @WorldBankGroup Country Income Classifications: blogs.worldbank.org/en/opendata/wh…

Global commodity prices are forecast to rise 23% in 2026 as conflict drains oil inventories and leaves markets exposed to new shocks.

The #CMO2026 shows energy, food, and metals prices all under pressure.

➡️ worldbank.org/commodities

Poverty.
Food security.
Jobs.
Governance.
Energy.
Agriculture.
Innovation.

The October 2026 World Development Indicators update brings new and revised data across the development agenda.

See what’s new and explore the data: blogs.worldbank.org/en/opendata/wh…

Low- and middle-income countries paid $436 billion more in principal and interest between 2022-25 than they received in new financing.

Access to finance has improved. But the price of it remains high.

What does our new International Debt Report reveal?: blogs.worldbank.org/en/opendata/ac…

In 1950, 6 in 10 people worldwide lived in extreme poverty. By 2025, it was 1 in 10—even as the global population more than tripled.

Five data-driven facts on 75 years of progress—and what could happen by 2050: blogs.worldbank.org/en/opendata/fi…

#Oil markets have absorbed major supply disruptions in 2026. But inventories have paid the price.

Global stocks declined by an average of 2,400,000 barrels/day from March to September, leaving less buffer against future shocks.

See what's next: blogs.worldbank.org/en/opendata/de… #CMO2026

External debt in low- and middle-income countries reached a record $9.4 trillion in 2025. At the same time, debt service rose to $1.4 trillion.

Our latest International Debt Report #IDR2026 shows why access to finance alone is not enough, see the charts: blogs.worldbank.org/en/opendata/ac…

As new data from the International Debt Report show, private creditors returned in force and bond markets reopened in 2025, but the poorest countries' borrowing faced the highest costs in decades.

➡️ worldbank.org/debtstatistics

Our International Debt Report is out!

Developing countries' external debt hit a record $9.4 trillion in 2025, up 5.5% and growing nearly 4x faster than the 2022–24 average.

Access to finance is improving, but it remains costly.

#IDR2026 ➡️ worldbank.org/debtstatistics

AI adoption is widespread. Deep adoption is not.

Among surveyed firms using AI internally, 57% are still experimenting or deploying it on a limited scale. Just 10% have embedded it across core processes.

What’s keeping firms from moving further?: blogs.worldbank.org/en/opendata/71…

Global access to healthy diets is improving—2.6 billion people couldn’t afford one in 2024, down 48.8 million from the year before. But progress is leaving low-income countries behind.

Read what the latest @WorldBankGroup and @FAO data show: wrld.bg/3w7P50ZeeQC

Energy prices rose 7.1% in October, driven by higher natural gas prices in Europe (+12.1%) and Brent crude oil (+7%).

Meanwhile, metals prices fell 3% and food prices declined 1.8%.

The latest Pink Sheet tracks commodity price movements across energy, agriculture, and metals:

Caribbean statistical systems are improving.

Across eight upper-middle- and high-income Caribbean countries, the average SPI score rose from 42.8 in 2016 to 60.1 in 2024.

But the region still trails its income peers.

What needs to happen next: blogs.worldbank.org/en/opendata/mo…

Conflict and weather shocks are driving food insecurity across vulnerable regions, while escalating conflict and displacement are increasing the need for food assistance.

More details in our latest Food & Nutrition Security Update: worldbank.org/en/brief/2023/…

Are the developing economies of Europe and Central Asia capitalizing on AI’s potential to create jobs and boost growth?

The @WorldBankGroup’s latest #ECAUpdate outlines how firms and governments across the region are adopting this tech and ways forward: worldbank.org/en/region/eca/…

Foreign direct investment is retreating.

Remittances are rising.

In 2024, global FDI was back near its 2005 level. Since 2005, remittance inflows have grown by 240%.

The architecture of development finance is changing: blogs.worldbank.org/en/opendata/tr…

Our latest @WorldBankGroup poverty update revises the 2024 global extreme poverty rate down by 0.3 percentage points—from 10.4% to 10.1%.

That equals about 22.5 million fewer people than previously estimated.

What changed and why in our new PIP update: blogs.worldbank.org/en/opendata/se…

Today, 4.5 billion people live in places exposed to climate-related hazards.

Yet vulnerability varies widely across regions.

New data show that 1.5 billion people are both exposed and vulnerable to climate shocks: blogs.worldbank.org/en/opendata/kn… #WBGAtlas

A worker with 30 years of wage-job experience is about 2.5x as productive as someone just starting out—roughly the gain from 12 years of average-quality schooling.

Work doesn’t just use human capital. It builds it.

See the new HCI+ tools: blogs.worldbank.org/en/opendata/gi…

Where climate hazards occur matters. But so does who is most vulnerable to them.

In 2024, 2.8 billion people lived in highly vulnerable conditions, and 1.5 billion were exposed to climate-related hazards.

What do the data reveal about climate risk?: blogs.worldbank.org/en/opendata/kn…

A chatbot that answers one prompt correctly can still fail by turn 4.

Context drift. Missing citations. Wrong tool selection.

Using DeepEval, we built a reusable framework to test LLM assistants across realistic multi-turn conversations.

How it works: blogs.worldbank.org/en/opendata/be…