Washington, DC 8 August 2011

(by Daniel Dietrich)

Have you ever wondered where the World Bank has disbursed money recently? What global funds does the World Bank manage? What is the World Bank's balance sheet?

The World Bank has released financial data sets as raw data: Open Financial Data

"The goal of this website is to make data related to the Bank's financials available to everybody in a social, interactive, visually compelling, and machine readable format. The data covers portions of the Bank's investments, assets it manages on behalf of global funds, and the Bank's own financial statements. Watch for more related datasets in the near future."

The site offers raw data sets and tools to explore and visualise it. You can also download the datasets in multiple formats or, if you are a developer, connect to them through the associated APIs.

Explore the datasets about the World Bank's finances — slice and dice datasets; visualize data; share it with other site users or through social networks. Watch this Video and check the Website for more related datasets in the near future.