Population density per pixel at 100 metre resolution. WorldPop provides estimates of numbers of people residing in each 100x100m grid cell for every low and middle income country. Through ingegrating cencus, survey, satellite and GIS...

The datasets are sourced from the Ugandan Energy Sector GIS Working Group Open Data Site, developed and maintained by the Ugandan Energy Sector GIS Working Group. The Ugandan Energy Sector GIS Working Group’s mission is to develop a high...

A Gambia subset of this dataset: ECOWAS region - Existing and Planned Transmission Grid (2017) Existing and planned transmission grid network (medium and high voltage lines) in the ECOWAS Region. Also covers other regions of West Africa....

The Mining Investment and Governance Review (MInGov) analyzes the sector and its context to facilitate work on mining regulation, governance and investment. By June 2016, MInGov will have completed and published assessments of nine...

Liberia census population dataset from 2007-2008 created by Liberia Institute of Statistics and Geo-Information Services (LISGIS). The dataset contains a list of all the settlements that are geo-located(coordinates in UTM projection) and...

Data repository for measurements from 5 automated solar stations in Vietnam. Data will be uploaded in batches, on a monthly basis, and will transmit daily reports on 1 minute average values for solar radiation levels, temperature, air...

The Global Electrification Platform (GEP) is a multi-phase project led by the World Bank to standardize and simplify the use of geospatial tools for least-cost electrification planning. The GEP provides a high-level overview of the...

The Global Electrification Platform (GEP) is a multi-phase project led by the World Bank to standardize and simplify the use of geospatial tools for least-cost electrification planning. The GEP provides a high-level overview of the...

For the urban and peri-urban area of St. Louis, three main flood scenarios have to be considered: a. Fluvial floods (seasonal floods from the Senegal River) after heavy tropical rains in the upper part of the catchment area b. Floods...

The goal of the South West Indian Ocean Risk Assessment and Financing Initiative (SWIO RAFI) is to improve the resiliency and capacity of the island states through the creation of disaster risk financing strategies. A key component of...

Product Market Regulation (PMR) indicators assess the extent to which public policies promote or inhibit market forces in several areas of product markets. Each of the areas addressed within the PMR methodology sheds light on specific...

This data was collected during the project: Preparation of a high-level least-cost geospatial analysis for grid and off-grid electrification options Synoptic analysis of low-cost electrification solutions in Congo

This dataset contains remote sensing data for every village in the state of Bihar, India. For most of these villages, the data contains the corresponding electrification rate as reported by the Garv data platform from the Indian...

This paper studies the impact of transport infrastructure projects of the Belt and Road Initiative on shipment times and trade costs. Based on a new data on completed and planned Belt and Road transport projects, Geographic Information...

The MTF survey is a global baseline survey on household access to electricity and clean cooking, which goes beyond the binary approach to look at access as a spectrum of service levels experienced by households. Resources included are...

The Power Systems Planning Group, embedded in the Energy Sector Management Assistance Program (ESMAP), has created the Electricity Planning Model (EPM) as a least-cost planning framework. EPM minimizes the costs of expanding and...

Water is not potable if its salinity exceeds 1 part per thousand (ppt), and water cannot be used for dry season paddy irrigation if its salinity exceeds 2 ppt. Recent field measurements conducted in Basanti, Gosaba, Hingalganj, Kultali,...

Maps with worldwide wind speed and wind power density potential. The GIS data stems from the Global Wind Atlas (http://globalwindatlas.info/). The link provides poster size (.pdf) and midsize maps (.png).

The Mining Investment and Governance Review (MInGov) analyzes the sector and its context to facilitate work on mining regulation, governance and investment. By June 2016, MInGov will have completed and published assessments of nine...

This dataset was extracted from the geodatabase published in 2017 by Resource Matters, as an addition to the energetic sector report in COD: https://resourcematters.org/ This data has been curated by WB team through consultations with...