World Bank

World Bank appears in roughly 31 monitored articles per day as of August 20, 2026. Mentions are down 11.6% week-over-week. The tone of that coverage averages -1.35 — mildly negative.

The World Bank Group (WBG) is a family of five international organizations that make leveraged loans to developing countries. The group is the largest development bank in the world. It is headquartered in Washington, D.C., United States. The bank's stated mission is to achieve the twin goals of ending extreme poverty and building shared prosperity. Historically, within the group, the IBRD and IDA were collectively known as the World Bank due to their emphasis on global lending.

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Wikidata

Data updated: · refreshed every 2 hours from GDELT

Articles / day
31
mentioning this entity
Week over week
-11.6%
7-day mean vs prior
Tone
-1.35
mildly negative

Coverage volume, last 90 days

World Bank mentions per day: 91 days, latest 31.00 on 2026-08-200.005001000May 22Jun 7Jun 23Jul 9Jul 25Aug 10Aug 20

Coverage tone, last 90 days

World Bank coverage tone: 91 days, latest tone -1.35 on 2026-08-20+50-5May 22Jun 7Jun 23Jul 9Jul 25Aug 10Aug 20

Reader interest (Wikipedia)

Daily Wikipedia pageviews for World Bank: 89 days, latest 366.00 on 2026-08-180.00250500May 22Jun 6Jun 21Jul 6Jul 21Aug 5Aug 18

Daily human pageviews of the entity's English Wikipedia article (Wikimedia Analytics). Coverage above measures what the press SUPPLIES; this measures what readers DEMAND — divergence between the two is its own signal.

Mentions counted via a quoted-name query against the GDELT DOC API, aggregated to UTC days — see methodology. Derived data is CC BY 4.0 (“Geotone / GDELT”).