Megacity Dhaka encounters various kinds of natural disasters quite frequently owing to its geographical location and a number of other physical and environmental conditions including low topography, land characteristics, multiplicity of...

Data collected and prepared for a project of the World Bank Group - Privatization of the Power Distribution System Operator (OSSH) Partial Risk Guarantee in Albania. This data is based on a digitized PDF map, and so is intended as a...

Main nodes and major lines of the electricity transmission network of Syria. Interconnection lines with neighboring countries included. The properties for nodes are "name" and "node type" (city, town, plant, dam...). The properties for...

Looking back 45 years or so, progress against poverty in India has been highly uneven over time and space. It took 20 years for the national poverty rate to fall below—and stay below—its value in the early 1950s. And trend rates of...

This dataset includes rivers, towns, lakes, basins and demographic and climate indicators.

Interconnection of the Turkish electricity transmission network with Iraq and Syria. The properties for nodes are "name" and "node type" (city, town, plant, dam...). The properties for lines are the "transmission power" in kV (e.g. 400),...

Survey data from Mexico, 1995, which provides detailed information on environmental performance and determinants, including plant, firm and market characteristics, pollution control costs, relationships with regulators, and measures to...

Monthly biomass production Burkina Faso at 30m resolution in 2017

This dataset provides five flood scenarios for Greater Dhaka Area, with estimates of location-specific depth and duration of inundation, for extreme rainfall event in 2050. Intense rainfall floods Dhaka, Bangladesh, one of the world’s...

Malaria poses a risk to approximately 3.3 billion people or approximately half of the world's population. Most malaria cases occur in Sub-Saharan Africa. Asia, Latin America, and to a lesser extent the Middle East and parts of Europe are...

This database contains parameters gathered after an assessment of the technological potential for development of floating solar photovoltaic (PV) projects on existing hydropower dams and other reservoirs, starting with a pilot in FY18...

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...

Earth-observing remote sensing data, including aerial photography and satellite imagery, offer a snapshot of the world from which we can learn about the state of our environment, anthropogenic systems, and natural resources. The...

Small water bodies inventory and water volume, covering the full Southern Province of Zambia, and includes of 1022 small reservoirs identified with optical satellite data from the Landsat5 satellite in the years 2010 and 2011. These...

This layer contain hydro generation sites collected from Liberia RESMP data for the purpose of using in Liberia NEA project analysis and mapping.

Main nodes and major lines of the electricity transmission network of the MENA region. Interconnection lines with countries outside of the region included. The properties for nodes are "name" and "node type" (city, town, plant, dam...)....

The overall impacts on the Brazilian economy of reducing CO2 emissions from energy use and industrial processes can be assessed using a recursive dynamic general equilibrium model and a hypothetical carbon tax. The study projects that...

Yearly biomass production Ethiopia 2013 & 2017

Main nodes and major lines of the electricity transmission network of Libya. Interconnection lines with neighboring countries included. The properties for nodes are "name" and "node type" (city, town, plant, dam...). The properties for...

This data set presents annual data on public sector deficits, the monetary sector, and the financial sector for a large and varying sample of member countries of the OECD and developing countries. It includes an in-depth examination of...