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World Bank

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The World Bank is an international financial institution[1]. It operates within the development aid industry.

Key Facts

  • Field of work: international development[3]
  • Member of: Confederation of Open Access Repositories[4], DataCite[5]
  • Country: United States[6]
  • Instance of: development bank[7]
  • Official language: English[8], Arabic[9], French[10], Spanish[11]
  • Headquarters location: World Bank Headquarters[12]
  • Child organization or unit: International Bank for Reconstruction and Development[13], International Development Association[14]
  • Part of: Bretton Woods system[15]
  • Commons category: World Bank[16]
  • Industry: development aid[17]
  • Chairperson: Ajaypal Singh Banga[18]
  • Has part(s): International Bank for Reconstruction and Development[19], International Development Association[20]
  • Inception: December 27, 1945[21]
  • Official website: https://www.worldbank.org/[22], https://www.banquemondiale.org/[23], https://www.albankaldawli.org[24], https://www.vsemirnyjbank.org/[25], http://www.worldbank.org[26]
  • Topic's main category: Category:World Bank[27]
  • Motto text: Working for a World Free of Poverty[28]
  • Official blog URL: https://blogs.worldbank.org/[29]
  • Short name: WB[30], BM[31]
  • Different from: World Bank Group[32], International Bank for Reconstruction and Development[33]
  • Partnership with: United Cities and Local Governments[34], International Fund for Agricultural Development[35]

Why It Matters

World Bank has Wikipedia articles in 30 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[36] It is known by 43 alternative names across languages and contexts.[37]

Related Entities

Ajaypal Singh Banga Ashraf Ghani Ellen Johnson Sirleaf Gagnoa Germany Jim Yong Kim Joseph Stiglitz Kristalina Georgieva Mario Draghi Nimisha Karnatak Pedro Pablo Kuczynski Rodrigo Chaves United States

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  1. [6] ↑ . GRID. Retrieved . grid.ac. Provenance: wikidata.org.
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  32. [34] ↑ . uclg.org. uclg.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  33. [35] ↑ . ifad.org. ifad.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [36] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [37] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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  1. 13d ago · MsynBot bot · 2026-10-04 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Wikipedia languages → ['af', 'als', 'am', 'an', 'ar', 'ary', 'arz', 'as', 'ast', 'az', 'azb', 'ba', 'b
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  5. 11w ago · Printstream · 2026-07-31 view diff on Wikidata ↗
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  9. 16w ago · Susmuffin · 2026-06-21 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Harper's tag → world-bank
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  10. 17w ago · Sadads · 2026-06-16 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Field of work → international development
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  11. 18w ago · Jindřich Rubeš · 2026-06-11 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Svkkl authority id → 0287468-Svetova-banka
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