Context

The World Bank is an international financial institution that provides loans to countries of the world for capital projects. The World Bank's stated goal is the reduction of poverty. Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_Bank

Content

This dataset combines key education statistics from a variety of sources to provide a look at global literacy, spending, and access.

For more information, see the World Bank website.

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Acknowledgements

https://bigquery.cloud.google.com/dataset/bigquery-public-data:world_bank_health_population

http://data.worldbank.org/data-catalog/ed-stats

https://cloud.google.com/bigquery/public-data/world-bank-education

Citation: The World Bank: Education Statistics

Dataset Source: World Bank. This dataset is publicly available for anyone to use under the following terms provided by the Dataset Source - http://www.data.gov/privacy-policy#data_policy - and is provided "AS IS" without any warranty, express or implied, from Google. Google disclaims all liability for any damages, direct or indirect, resulting from the use of the dataset.

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Inspiration

Of total government spending, what percentage is spent on education?

This dataset simulates a set of key economic, social, and environmental indicators for 20 countries over the period from 2010 to 2019. The dataset is designed to reflect typical World Bank metrics, which are used for analysis, policy-making, and forecasting. It includes the following variables:

Country Name: The country for which the data is recorded. Year: The specific year of the observation (from 2010 to 2019). GDP (USD): Gross Domestic Product in billions of US dollars, indicating the economic output of a country. Population: The total population of the country in millions. Life Expectancy (in years): The average life expectancy at birth for the country’s population. Unemployment Rate (%): The percentage of the total labor force that is unemployed but actively seeking employment. CO2 Emissions (metric tons per capita): The per capita carbon dioxide emissions, reflecting environmental impact. Access to Electricity (% of population): The percentage of the population with access to electricity, representing infrastructure development. Country:

Description: Name of the country for which the data is recorded. Data Type: String Example: "United States", "India", "Brazil" Year:

Description: The year in which the data is observed. Data Type: Integer Range: 2010 to 2019 Example: 2012, 2015 GDP (USD):

Description: The Gross Domestic Product of the country in billions of US dollars, indicating the economic output. Data Type: Float (billions of USD) Example: 14200.56 (represents 14,200.56 billion USD) Population:

Description: The total population of the country in millions. Data Type: Float (millions of people) Example: 331.42 (represents 331.42 million people) Life Expectancy (in years):

Description: The average number of years a newborn is expected to live, assuming that current mortality rates remain constant throughout their life. Data Type: Float (years) Range: Typically between 50 and 85 years Example: 78.5 years Unemployment Rate (%):

Description: The percentage of the total labor force that is unemployed but actively seeking employment. Data Type: Float (percentage) Range: Typically between 2% and 25% Example: 6.25% CO2 Emissions (metric tons per capita):

Description: The amount of carbon dioxide emissions per person in the country, measured in metric tons. Data Type: Float (metric tons) Range: Typically between 0.5 and 20 metric tons per capita Example: 4.32 metric tons per capita Access to Electricity (%):

Description: The percentage of the population with access to electricity. Data Type: Float (percentage) Range: Typically between 50% and 100% Example: 95.7%

Abstract

The Country Opinion Survey in Viet Nam assists the World Bank Group (WBG) in better understanding how stakeholders in Viet Nam perceive the WBG. It provides the WBG with systematic feedback from national and local governments, multilateral/bilateral agencies, media, academia, the private sector, and civil society in Viet Nam on 1) their views regarding the general environment in Viet Nam; 2) their overall attitudes toward the WBG in Viet Nam; 3) overall impressions of the WBG’s effectiveness and results, knowledge work and activities, and communication and information sharing in Viet Nam; and 4) their perceptions of the WBG’s future role in Viet Nam.

Geographic coverage

National coverage

Analysis unit

Stakeholders of the World Bank Group in Viet Nam

Kind of data

Sample survey data [ssd]

Sampling procedure

From May to August 2024, a total of 985 stakeholders of the WBG in Viet Nam were invited to provide their opinions about the WBG’s work in the country by participating in a COS. A list of potential participants was compiled by the WBG country team and the field agency. Participants were drawn from the Office of the Prime Minister, Minister, Central Agencies, National Assembly, government institutions, local governments, bilateral/ multilateral agencies, the private sector, civil society organizations, academia, and the media. A total of 389 stakeholders participated in the survey.

Mode of data collection

Other [oth]

Research instrument

The survey was conducted in English and Vietnamese languages. The English version is provided as related material.

Response rate

Response rate was 39%

This year’s survey results were compared to the FY20 Survey, with a response rate of 56% (N=580). Comparing responses across Country Surveys reflects changes in attitudes over time, as well as changes in respondent samples, methodology, and the survey instrument itself. To reduce the influence of the latter factor, only questions with similar response scales/options were analyzed. This year’s survey saw an increased outreach to and/or response from civil society, academia, and media but a decrease from government institutions, local government, and civil society. These differences in stakeholder composition between the two years should be considered when interpreting the results of the past-year comparison analyses.

The number of full-time employees at the World Bank increased from 2016 to 2024, reaching 13,492. The World Bank Group and its subunits provide loans to low- and middle-income countries.

Abstract

The World Bank Group is interested in gauging the views of clients and partners who are either involved in development in Brazil or who observe activities related to social and economic development. The World Bank Country Assessment Survey is meant to give the World Bank Group's team that works in Brazil, greater insight into how the Bank's work is perceived. This is one tool the World Bank Group uses to assess the views of its critical stakeholders. With this understanding, the World Bank Group hopes to develop more effective strategies, outreach and programs that support development in Brazil at the federal/state/municipal level. The World Bank Group commissioned an independent firm to oversee the logistics of this effort in Brazil.

This survey was designed to achieve the following objectives: - Assist the World Bank Group in gaining a better understanding of how stakeholders in Brazil perceive the Bank;

• Obtain systematic feedback from stakeholders in Brazil regarding: · Their views regarding the general environment in Brazil; · Their overall attitudes toward the World Bank Group in Brazil; · Overall impressions of the World Bank Group's effectiveness and results, knowledge work, and communication and information sharing in Brazil; · Perceptions of the recent trends and the World Bank Group's future role in Brazil.

• Use data to help inform Brazil country team's strategy.

Geographic coverage

National

Analysis unit

Stakeholder

Universe

Stakeholders of the World Bank in Brazil

Kind of data

Sample survey data [ssd]

Sampling procedure

From June to August 2013, 10,200 stakeholders of the World Bank Group in Brazil were invited to provide their opinions on the Bank's assistance to the country by participating in a country survey. Participants in the survey were drawn from the office of the President, Prime Minister/Minister, office of a parliamentarian, ministries, ministerial departments, or implementation agencies; consultants/ contractors working on World Bank Group-supported projects/programs; project management units (PMUs) overseeing implementation of a project; state Government; municipal governments; bilateral and multilateral agencies; private sector organizations; private foundations; the financial sector/private banks; NGOs; community-based organizations; the media; independent government institutions; trade unions; academia/research institutes/think tanks; faith-based groups, the judiciary branch; and other organizations.

Mode of data collection

Internet [int]

Research instrument

The Questionnaire consists of 8 Sections:

A. General Issues facing Brazil: Respondents were asked to indicate whether Brazil is headed in the right direction, what they thought were the top three development priorities in Brazil, and which areas would contribute most to reducing poverty and generating economic growth

B. Overall Attitudes toward the World Bank Group: Respondents were asked to rate their familiarity with the World Bank, Inter-American Development Bank, Latin American Development Bank, and the International Finance Corporation, their perceived effectiveness of these organizations in Brazil, and which of these organizations they work with the most in Brazil. They were asked to rate the Bank staff's preparedness to help Brazil solve its development challenges, their agreement with various statements regarding the Bank's work, and the extent to which the Bank is an effective development partner.

Respondents were also asked to indicate the Bank's greatest values, greatest weaknesses, the most effective instruments in helping reduce poverty in Brazil, in which sectoral areas the Bank should focus most resources, to what extent the Bank should seek to influence the global development agenda, and to what reasons respondents attributed failed or slow reform efforts. Respondents were invited to indicate at what level (federal, state, or municipal) the World Bank Group works mostly in Brazil. They were asked if the Bank is most effective when it works in one sector or multi-sectorally. Lastly, they were asked to indicate to what extent they believe the combination of financial, knowledge, and convening services provided by the Bank meets the national development needs of Brazil.

C. World Bank Group Effectiveness and Results: Respondents were asked to rate the extent to which the Bank's work helps achieve development results, the extent to which the Bank meets Brazil's needs for knowledge services and financial instruments, and the Bank's level of effectiveness across thirty-two development areas, such as education, public sector governance/reform, health, transport, and anti-corruption. They were also asked to what extent they believe that Brazil receives value for money from the World Bank Group's fee-based services/products.

D. The World Bank Group's Knowledge: Respondents were asked to indicate the areas on which the Bank should focus its research efforts and to rate the effectiveness and quality of the Bank's knowledge work and activities, including how significant of a contribution it makes to development results and its technical quality. Respondents were also asked whether they read/consulted the most recent LAC Flagship Report and whether it provided useful information in their work.

E. Working with the World Bank Group: Respondents were asked to rate their level of agreement with a series of statements regarding working with the Bank, such as the World Bank Group's "Safeguard Policy" requirements being reasonable, the Bank imposing reasonable conditions on its lending, disbursing funds promptly, increasing Brazil's institutional capacity, and providing effective implementation support.

F. The Future Role of the World Bank Group in Brazil: Respondents were asked to rate how significant a role the World Bank Group should play in Brazil in the near future and to indicate what the Bank should do to make itself of greater value. Respondents were asked to indicate to what extent they believe the World Bank Group has moved in the right direction in terms of the focus of its work in Brazil and how significant a role international development cooperation should play in Brazil's development in the near future at the federal, state, and/or municipal level.

G. Communication and Information Sharing: Respondents were asked to indicate how they get information about economic and social development issues, how they prefer to receive information from the Bank, and their usage and evaluation of the Bank's websites. Respondents were asked about their awareness of the Bank's Access to Information policy, whether they used/had used the World Bank Group website, and whether they accessed the Bank's social media channels. Respondents were also asked about their level of agreement that they know how to find information from the Bank, and that the Bank is responsive to information requests. Respondents were also asked to indicate what kind of e-services they are currently subscribed to.

H. Background Information: Respondents were asked to indicate their current position, specialization, at what level (federal, state, or municipal) they primarily work at, whether they professionally collaborate with the World Bank Group, whether they worked with the International Finance Corporation in Brazil, their exposure to the Bank in Brazil, and their geographic location.

Response rate

A total of 200 stakeholders participated in the survey (2% response rate).

World Bank-approved administrative boundaries (Admin 0) (and polygons) including international boundaries, disputed areas, coastlines, lakes and a guide to help with their usage. Last updated: Mar 19, 2020More details on https://datacatalog.worldbank.org/search/dataset/0038272/World-Bank-Official-Boundaries

During the 2023 financial year, the International Finance Corporation (IFC), part of the World Bank Group, supported a significant amount of private sector growth in developing countries globally. By industry, a little over half of IFC commitments that year went towards financial markets. Infrastructure followed behind, composing 15 percent of IFC commitments during 2023.

The Energy & Extractives Open Data Platform is provided by the World Bank Group and is comprised of open datasets relating to the work of the Energy & Extractives Global Practice, including statistical, measurement and survey data from ongoing projects.

Website: http://data.worldbank.org/topic/energy-and-mining

The World Bank EdStats All Indicator Query holds over 4,000 internationally comparable indicators that describe education access, progression, completion, literacy, teachers, population, and expenditures. The indicators cover the education cycle from pre-primary to vocational and tertiary education. The query also holds learning outcome data from international and regional learning assessments (e.g. PISA, TIMSS, PIRLS), equity data from household surveys, and projection/attainment data to 2050. For further information, please visit the EdStats website.

For further details, please refer to https://datatopics.worldbank.org/education/wRsc/about

The International Development Association (IDA) credits are public and publicly guaranteed debt extended by the World Bank Group. IDA provides development credits, grants and guarantees to its recipient member countries to help meet their development needs. Credits from IDA are at concessional rates. Data are in U.S. dollars calculated using historical rates. This dataset contains the latest available snapshot of the IDA Statement of Credits and Grants. The World Bank complies with all sanctions applicable to World Bank transactions.

Abstract

The World Bank is interested in gauging the views of clients and partners who are either involved in development in Romania or who observe activities related to social and economic development. The World Bank Country Assessment Survey is meant to give the World Bank's team that works in Romania, more in-depth insight into how the Bank's work is perceived. This is one tool the World Bank uses to assess the views of its critical stakeholders. With this understanding, the World Bank hopes to develop more effective strategies, outreach and programs that support development in Romania.

The survey was designed to achieve the following objectives: - Assist the World Bank in gaining a better understanding of how stakeholders in Romania perceive the Bank; - Obtain systematic feedback from stakeholders in Romania regarding: · Their views regarding the general environment in Romania; · Their overall attitudes toward the World Bank in Romania; · Overall impressions of the World Bank's effectiveness and results, knowledge and research, and communication and information sharing in Romania; and · Perceptions of the World Bank's future role in Romania. - Use data to help inform the Romania country team's strategy.

Geographic coverage

National

Analysis unit

Stakeholder

Universe

Stakeholders of the World Bank in Romania

Kind of data

Sample survey data [ssd]

Sampling procedure

In August-September 2013, 191 stakeholders of the World Bank in Romania were invited to provide their opinions on the Bank's assistance to the country by participating in a country survey. Participants in the survey were drawn from among the office of the President/Prime Minister/Minister, the office of a Parliamentarian; a ministry, ministerial department, or implementation agency; consultants/ contractors working on World Bank-supported projects/programs; project management units (PMUs) overseeing implementation of a project; local government officials or staff; bilateral and multilateral agencies; private sector organizations; private foundations; the financial sector/private banks; NGOs; community-based organizations; the media; independent government institutions; trade unions; faith-based groups; academia/research institutes/think tanks; the judiciary branch; and other organizations.

Mode of data collection

Mail Questionnaire [mail]

Research instrument

The Questionnaire consists of 8 Sections:

A. General Issues Facing Romania: Respondents were asked to indicate whether Romania is headed in the right direction, what they thought were the top three development priorities in Romania, which areas would contribute most to reducing poverty and generating economic growth, and what best illustrates how "shared prosperity" would be achieved in Romania.

B. Overall Attitudes toward the World Bank: Respondents were asked to rate their familiarity with the World Bank, the Bank's effectiveness in Romania, Bank staff preparedness to help Romania solve its development challenges, their agreement with various statements regarding the Bank's work, and the extent to which the Bank is an effective development partner. Respondents were asked to indicate the Bank's greatest values, greatest weaknesses, the most effective instruments in helping reduce poverty in Romania, with which stakeholder groups the Bank should collaborate more, in which sectoral areas the Bank should focus most resources, to what extent the Bank should seek to influence the global development agenda, and to what reasons respondents attributed failed or slow reform efforts.

C. World Bank Effectiveness and Results: Respondents were asked to rate the extent to which the Bank's work helps achieve development results, the extent to which the Bank meets Romania's needs for knowledge services and financial instruments, and the Bank's level of effectiveness across thirty eight development areas, such as public sector governance/reform, regulatory framework, education, gender, and social inclusion of marginalized and vulnerable groups.

D. The World Bank's Knowledge: Respondents were asked to indicate how frequently they consult Bank knowledge work and activities, the areas on which the Bank should focus its research efforts and to rate the effectiveness and quality of the Bank's knowledge work and activities, including how significant of a contribution it makes to development results, its technical quality, and the value of the World Bank's fee-based services/products.

E. Working with the World Bank: Respondents were asked to rate their level of agreement with a series of statements regarding working with the Bank, such as the World Bank's "Safeguard Policy" requirements being reasonable, the Bank imposing reasonable conditions on its lending, disbursing funds promptly, increasing Romania's institutional capacity, and providing effective implementation support.

F. The Future Role of the World Bank in Romania: Respondents were asked to rate how significant a role the Bank should play in Romania in the near future and to indicate what the Bank should do to make itself of greater value.

G. Communication and Information Sharing: Respondents were asked to indicate how they get information about economic and social development issues, how they prefer to receive information from the Bank, and their usage and evaluation of the Bank's websites. Respondents were asked about their awareness of the Bank's Access to Information policy, past information requests from the Bank, and their level of agreement that they use more data from the World Bank as a result of the Bank's Open Data policy. Respondents were also asked about their level of agreement that they know how to find information from the Bank, that the Bank's websites are easy to navigate and useful, and that the Bank is responsive to information requests. Respondents were also asked to indicate whether they primarily use the Bank's country website or the Bank's main website and whether they primarily use high speed or dial-up Internet connection when visiting a World Bank website.

H. Background Information: Respondents were asked to indicate their current position, specialization, whether they professionally collaborate with the World Bank, their exposure to the Bank in Romania, and their geographic location.

Response rate

A total of 81 stakeholders participated in the survey (42% response rate).

The World Bank is interested in gauging the views of clients and partners who are either involved in development in China or who observe activities related to social and economic development. The World Bank Country Assessment Survey is meant to give the Bank's team that works in China, more in-depth insight into how the Bank's work is perceived. This is one tool the Bank uses to assess the views of its critical stakeholders. With this understanding, the World Bank hopes to develop more effective strategies, outreach and programs that support development in China. The World Bank commissioned an independent firm to oversee the logistics of this effort in China. The survey was designed to achieve the following objectives: Assist the World Bank in gaining a better understanding of how stakeholders in China perceive the Bank; Obtain systematic feedback from stakeholders in China regarding: · Their views regarding the general environment in China; · Their perceived overall value of the World Bank in China; · Overall impressions of the World Bank as related to programs, poverty reduction, personal relationships, effectiveness, knowledge base, collaboration, and its day-to-day operation; and · Perceptions of the World Bank's communication and outreach in China. Use data to help inform the China country team's strategy.

The International Development Association (IDA), part of the World Bank system, distributed billions in interest-free loans to low-income countries in 2023. That year, Pakistan was the leading fiscal borrower, borrowing over 2.3 billion U.S. dollars from the IDA. Other major borrowers include Bangladesh, Tanzania, Kenya, and the Democratic Republic of Congo.

The texts of the loan conditions used as raw data for this article was supplied to us by the World Bank on a confidential basis. The replication data therefore only provides our aggregated data that reproduces all the results in the publication itself. To promote replicability and to promote future research on the World Bank and its lending practices, we have reproduced the confidential raw data to the fullest extent possible by relying only on publicly available information. The data set contains the project-specific conditions attached to 1242 World Bank loan and borrowing agreements. For each of these, the data set lists the project number, project year, borrower country ISO3C code, the date of the document, the abbreviated World Bank project name, the URL to the text or PDF document, and the texts of the loan-specific conditions. The latter were extracted through a combination of quantitative text analysis and reading of the actual loan agreement documents. This data covers all the observations used in the article, with the exception of 205 projects with their conditions that the World Bank has chosen to keep confidential. Nearly all of these are from the 1980s. We encourage future research using this data. If you undertake such work, please cite the article as source.

Context

The World Bank is an international financial institution that provides loans to countries of the world for capital projects. The World Bank's stated goal is the reduction of poverty. Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_Bank

Content

This dataset contains both national and regional debt statistics captured by over 200 economic indicators. Time series data is available for those indicators from 1970 to 2015 for reporting countries.

For more information, see the World Bank website.

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Acknowledgements

https://bigquery.cloud.google.com/dataset/bigquery-public-data:world_bank_intl_debt

https://cloud.google.com/bigquery/public-data/world-bank-international-debt

Citation: The World Bank: International Debt Statistics

Dataset Source: World Bank. This dataset is publicly available for anyone to use under the following terms provided by the Dataset Source - http://www.data.gov/privacy-policy#data_policy - and is provided "AS IS" without any warranty, express or implied, from Google. Google disclaims all liability for any damages, direct or indirect, resulting from the use of the dataset.

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Inspiration

What countries have the largest outstanding debt?

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Abstract

The Country Opinion Survey in China assists the World Bank Group (WBG) in gaining a better understanding of how stakeholders in China perceive the WBG. It provides the WBG with systematic feedback from national and local governments, multilateral/bilateral agencies, media, academia, the private sector, and civil society in China on 1) their views regarding the general environment in China; 2) their overall attitudes toward the WBG in China; 3) overall impressions of the WBG’s effectiveness and results, knowledge work and activities, and communication and information sharing in China; and 4) their perceptions of the WBG’s future role in China.

Geographic coverage

• Beijing
• Tianjin, Shanghai, Guangdong, Fujian, Zhejiang, Jiangsu, Shandong, Hebei
• Henan, Hunan, Hubei, Anhui, Jiangxi, Liaoning, Jilin, Heilongjiang
• Chongqing, Xinjiang, Xizang, Qinghai, Gansu, Inner Mongolia, Ningxia, Shaanxi, Shanxi, Sichuan, Yunnan, Guizhou, Guangxi

Sampling procedure

From March to April 2022, 652 stakeholders of the WBG in China were invited to provide their opinions on the WBG’s work in the country by participating in a Country Opinion Survey. Participants were drawn from the employees of ministries/ministerial departments/ implementation agencies; Project Management Units (PMUs) overseeing implementation of WBG projects; consultants/contractors working on WBG-supported projects/programs; local governments; independent government institutions; the judicial system; state-owned enterprises; bilateral and multilateral agencies; private sector organizations; the financial sector/private banks; private foundations; NGOs and community based organizations; professional/trade associations; youth groups; academia/research institutes/think tanks; and the media.

Mode of data collection

Other [oth]

Research instrument

The questionnaire was in English and Chinese. The English version of the questionnaire is available for download.

Response rate

The response rate was 60%

The World Bank Group is interested in gauging the views of clients and partners who are either involved in development in Bolivia or who observe activities related to social and economic development. The following survey will give the World Bank Group's team that works in Bolivia, greater insight into how the Bank's work is perceived. This is one tool the World Bank Group uses to assess the views of its stakeholders, and to develop more effective strategies that support development in Bolivia. A local independent firm was hired to oversee the logistics of this survey. This survey was designed to achieve the following objectives: Assist the World Bank Group in gaining a better understanding of how stakeholders in Bolivia perceive the Bank Group; Obtain systematic feedback from stakeholders in Bolivia regarding: · Their views regarding the general environment in Bolivia; · Their overall attitudes toward the World Bank Group in Bolivia; · Overall impressions of the World Bank Group's effectiveness and results, knowledge work and activities, and communication and information sharing in Bolivia; · Perceptions of the World Bank Group's future role in Bolivia. Use data to help inform Bolivia country team's strategy.

The World Bank is interested in gauging the views of clients and partners who are either involved in development in Armenia or who observe activities related to social and economic development. The World Bank Country Assessment Survey is meant to give the World Bank's team that works in Armenia, greater insight into how the Bank's work is perceived. This is one tool the World Bank uses to assess the views of its critical stakeholders. With this understanding, the World Bank hopes to develop more effective strategies, outreach and programs that support development in Armenia. The World Bank commissioned an independent firm to oversee the logistics of this effort in Armenia. The survey was designed to achieve the following objectives: Assist the World Bank in gaining a better understanding of how stakeholders in Armenia perceive the Bank; Obtain systematic feedback from stakeholders in Armenia regarding: · Their views regarding the general environment in Armenia; · Their overall attitudes toward the World Bank in Armenia; · Overall impressions of the World Bank's effectiveness and results, knowledge and research, and communication and information sharing in Armenia; and · Perceptions of the World Bank's future role in Armenia. Use data to help inform the Armenia country team's strategy.

The World Bank Group is interested in gauging the views of clients and partners who are either involved in development in Gabon or who observe activities related to social and economic development. The World Bank Group Country Opinion Survey will give the World Bank Group's team that works in Gabon, greater insight into how the Bank's work is perceived. This is one tool the World Bank Group uses to assess the views of its stakeholders, and to develop more effective strategies that support development in Gabon. The survey was designed to achieve the following objectives: Assist the World Bank Group in gaining a better understanding of how stakeholders in Gabon perceive the Bank Group; Obtain systematic feedback from stakeholders in Gabon regarding: · Their views regarding the general environment in Gabon; · Their overall attitudes toward the World Bank Group in Gabon; · Overall impressions of the World Bank Group’s effectiveness and results, knowledge work and activities, and communication and information sharing in Gabon; · Perceptions of the World Bank Group’s future role in Gabon. Use data to help inform Gabon country team’s strategy.