World Bank Group launches free, interactive trade and competitiveness data platform

WASHINGTON— The World Bank Group today launched TCdata360, a free, open, and easy–to-use online platform that collects, analyses and visualises trade and competitiveness data.  The website is designed to help policymakers, development practitioners, academics and citizens better understand critical issues, and to create more informed policies in the areas of trade, investment, innovation and the general economy.

“Accessible, easy-to-use open data can have significant economic and societal benefits," said Anabel Gonzalez, Senior Director of the World Bank Group’s Trade & Competitiveness Global Practice.

"TCdata360 provides a platform for transforming data into millions of stories on critical trade and competitiveness issues that provide the public and governments with better information to debate and determine policies."
 
TCdata360 aggregates and visualizes publicly available data from over 20 sources, including the World Bank Group, the IMF, the WTO, the World Economic Forum (WEF), and the OECD. 
 
Developed by the Bank Group’s Trade & Competitiveness Global Practice, the new platform represents a storehouse of statistics where users can browse and filter data across 1,800 indicators, NS create visualizations to enhance their understanding of how countries and regions perform. www.worldbank.org (ATI).