The World Bank has released the 2017 Atlas of Sustainable Development Goals. With over 150 maps and data visualizations, the new publication charts the progress societies are making towards the 17 SDGs.

The Atlas is part of the World Development Indicators (WDI) family of products that offer high-quality, cross-country comparable statistics about development and people’s lives around the globe. it draws on World Development Indicators, a database of over 1,400 indicators for more than 220 economies, many going back more than 50 years.

The Atlas relies on the work of national and international statistical agencies around the world. The professionals working in these agencies play a crucial role in measuring and quantifying the development process, so that we can all make better decisions about our lives and the scarce resources we all manage.

From the World Bank, the Atlas presents the perspective of subject matter experts in our Global Practices and Cross-Cutting Solution Areas and of data experts in the World Bank Data team. We’ve worked together to share the best of our institution’s knowledge and data, in a manner we hope is engaging, understandable and that ultimately informs the development community’s thinking.

Accessing the data

All the data in World Development Indicators and The Atlas is available completely free of charge, as part of the World Bank’s Open Data Initiative. A complete list of tools to access, explore, and interact with WDI 2017 and the SDG Atlas are available at data.worldbank.org/wdi and include:

• The World Bank’s main multilingual data website: data.worldbank.org
• The Interactive Sustainable Development Goals Dashboard at: data.worldbank.org/sdgs
• Bulk download files of the WDI dataset in CSV and XLS formats, direct access via our API and via third party API wrappers for popular languages including Python, STATA and R.
• The DataBank query tool which allows users to create, save, and share tables, charts and maps, and embed them on webpages: databank.worldbank.org
• Statistical tables and metadata for countries, geographic regions and income groups presented by WDI section: wdi.worldbank.org/tables
• The Data Helpdesk which responds to frequently asked questions about World Bank data and lets users submit new questions: datahelpdesk.worldbank.org/

Below are some Images from the Atlas

                             Source: World Bank