Country statistical capacity is increasingly recognized as crucial for development, but no academic study exists that reviews the available assessment tools. This paper offers the first review study that...
In January 2024, a new edition of the Statistical Performance Indicators (SPI) was released. This new edition covers SPI scores for 2020, 2021 and 2022. There were no changes to the framework, methodology...
Data-driven research on a country is key to producing evidence-based public policies. Yet little is known about where data-driven research is lacking and how it could be expanded. This paper proposes a...
This document is prepared by the Statistical Performance Indicators (SPI) team at the World Bank Development Data Group. Following a brief summary of the SPI framework, methodology and data sources, the...
The Sustainable Development Goal agenda lays out an ambitious set of 231 indicators to track progress. Countries continue to fall short in terms of reporting on the indicators in general, and this is particularly...
The global education policy dashboard (GEPD) technical note outlines some technical aspects of the overall project as well as its field work, instruments, indicators, and scores. The purpose is to be transparent...
In October 2019, the World Bank and UNESCO Institute for Statistics proposed a new metric, Learning Poverty, designed to spotlight low levels of learning and track progress toward ensuring that all children...
The World Bank’s Statistical Capacity Index has been widely employed to measure country statistical capacity since its inception two decades ago. This paper builds on the existing advantages of the Statistical...
National statistical systems are facing significant challenges. These challenges arise from increasing demands for high quality and trustworthy data to guide decision making, coupled with the rapidly changing...
School enrollment has universally increased over the last 25 years in low-income countries. Enrolling in school, however, does not assure that children learn. A large share of children in low-income countries...
School enrollment has universally increased over the past 25 years in low-income countries. However, enrolling in school does not guarantee that children learn. A large share of children in low-income...