World Bank Data Dive 2025: Jobs & Development
World Bank Data Dive 2025: Jobs & Development
Join The World Bank and Data Community DC for a Developmental Challenges DATA DIVE focused on jobs! As digital and AI technologies reshape global labor markets, we're bringing together data scientists, analysts, and innovators to tackle critical employment challenges in developing countries through the power of data analytics.
Wednesday, December 3rd | 12:00 PM - 8:00 PM | World Bank Preston Auditorium.
In this intensive collaboration, practitioners will analyze the relationship between productivity, employment, and wages in developing countries, with a focus on how digital technology adoption might alter these dynamics. Using comprehensive datasets from the World Bank Enterprise Surveys, Global Labor Database, ILO Employment Statistics, and other sources, teams will transform raw data into actionable insights that could impact development policy.
Challenge Areas:
Category #1. Toward Pro-Jobs Business Environments: Discover how smarter regulations, better infrastructure, and stronger firm capabilities can unleash massive job creation across developing economies. Dive into rich cross-country data to pinpoint what really drives firms to grow, and what holds them back! Help shape the evidence for the next generation of pro-jobs reforms.
Category #2: Jobs & Gender. Unlock the hidden dynamics behind women’s employment: how do public-sector pathways, legal rights, and workplace protections widen or close gender gaps? Use cutting-edge datasets to map where women’s economic opportunities are expanding or stalled. Generate insights that could redefine how countries design gender-equal labor markets.
Category #3: Jobs & Youth. Explore the future of the world’s youngest workforce: their education levels, their readiness for AI, and the skills that will shape prosperity in 2035. Reveal which countries are racing ahead and which risk being left behind. Build bold, data-driven narratives that illuminate the opportunities and vulnerabilities facing a generation.
Category #4: The Public-Private Jobs Nexus. Unpack the high-stakes interaction between public-sector hiring and private-sector productivity, where wage premiums, queuing, and talent competition can reshape entire labor markets! Visualize how worker preferences and firm constraints collide across countries and regions. Provide insights that help governments rebalance incentives and unlock private-sector growth.
Category #5: Toward New Insights on Job Trends. Harness frontier data (from AI job postings to satellite night-lights) to map real-time transformations in employment. Build tools that help countries anticipate digital opportunities, identify vulnerable workers, and respond to rapidly shifting labor-market needs. Push the boundaries of how we understand jobs in an era of technological disruption.
This is your opportunity to harness cutting-edge analytics to identify patterns, uncover hidden opportunities, and forge data-driven strategies for inclusive employment growth. Together, we'll work with real World Bank data to develop insights that could reshape approaches to jobs and development.
Event Details:
Data Sources: Access to World Bank Enterprise Surveys, Global Labor Database, ILO Employment Statistics, UN SDG indicators, and other comprehensive development datasets
Expert Support: Collaboration with World Bank Data Talent Board organizers and development specialists
Full-Day Format: Includes networking lunch, intensive working sessions, team presentations, and awards ceremony
Whether you're a data scientist interested in development challenges or a practitioner seeking to apply analytics to global employment issues, this Data Dive offers the chance to contribute to solutions for more equitable and sustainable development.
Agenda:
12-1PM - Lunch and networking
1-2PM - Opening and overview
2-6PM - WORKING TIME
6-7PM - Team Presentations
7-8PM - Reception, Judging, Awards and closing .
Please confirm registration by going to: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLScbN33uS6Ii0lppDZaB7I0fecxqs0RbH8EgHBn2rrur8tShdg/viewform?usp=header
Award categories include Best Overall Project and Best Jobs Project. Lunch, refreshments throughout the day, and closing reception included.