Atlas of Global Development

World Bank, which releases an atlas every few years, published an Atlas of Global Development for 2026.

Across the global development landscape, which countries are moving the fastest, and which are losing ground? The 2026 edition of the World Bank’s Atlas of Global Development puts progress at its center. Looking at how fast countries are moving toward better outcomes and facing different challenges, from their own individual starting points, this edition introduces a new framework to track development over the past 75 years, revealing how countries have advanced across key dimensions.

Framed as a set of stories on progress, people, prosperity, planet, infrastructure, and technology, the atlas covers a wide range of topics with a variety of charts. There’s a lot to poke at.