WDI - The World by Income and Region

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groups: low, lower-middle, upper-middle, and high income. For this purpose it uses gross national income (GNI) per capita data in U.S. dollars, converted from local currency using the <a href="https://datahelpdesk.worldbank.org/knowledgebase/articles/378832-what-is-the-world-bank-atlas-method">World Bank Atlas method</a>, which is applied to smooth exchange rate fluctuations.</p> <p>Estimates of GNI are obtained from economists in World Bank country units who rely primarily on official data published by the countries; the <a href="https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/SP.POP.TOTL">size of the population</a> is estimated by World Bank demographers from a variety of sources, including the UN’s biennial <a href="https://esa.un.org/unpd/wpp/">World Population Prospects</a>.</p> <p>Countries are classified each year on July 1, based on the estimate of their GNI per capita for the previous calendar year. Income groupings remain fixed for the entire World Bank fiscal year (i.e., until July 1 of the following year), even if GNI per capita estimates are revised in the meantime.</p> <p>Prior to FY19, the income category of a country was not one of the factors which influenced lending decisions. Starting in FY19, there will be surcharges in IBRD loan pricing for High income countries as described in the Development Committee Paper <a href="https://www.devcommittee.org/sites/dc/files/download/Documents/2018-10/DC2018-0002_PSustainableFinancing421.pdf">"Sustainable Finance for Sustainable Development”</a> (DC2018-002/P, April 21, 2018).</p> <p>For more information about the World Bank country classification, please refer to the <a href="https://datahelpdesk.worldbank.org/knowledgebase/topics/19280-country-classification">Knowledge Base</a> and further discussion of the <a href="https://blogs.worldbank.org/opendata/classifying-countries-income-new-working-paper">topic</a> and <a href="https://blogs.worldbank.org/opendata/lics-lmics-umics-and-hics-classifying-economies-analytical-purposes">classifying economies for analytical purposes</a>.</p> <p>Click <a href="https://datahelpdesk.worldbank.org/knowledgebase/articles/906519-world-bank-country-and-lending-groups">here</a> to access the complete list of countries by income group.</p> <p>You can also download the <a href="https://datacatalogfiles.worldbank.org/ddh-published/0037712/DR0090755/CLASS.xlsx" title="Link: https://datacatalogfiles.worldbank.org/ddh-published/0037712/DR0090755/CLASS.xlsx">current classification by income in XLS format</a> and the <a href="https://datacatalogfiles.worldbank.org/ddh-published/0037712/DR0090754/OGHIST.xlsx" title="Link: https://datacatalogfiles.worldbank.org/ddh-published/0037712/DR0090754/OGHIST.xlsx">historical classification by income in XLS format</a>.</p> <p> </p> <h2>The world by region</h2> <div class="flourish-embed flourish-map" data-src="visualisation/6584343?145304"><script src="https://public.flourish.studio/resources/embed.js"></script></div> <p>Groupings are primarily based on the regions used for <a href="http://www.worldbank.org/en/where-we-work">administrative purposes</a> by the World Bank. 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