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World Bank Expenditures by Organizational Unit

Data as of 2023

The World Bank Expenditures by Organizational Unit shows actual administrative expenditure spent at an aggregate organizational unit level.

Data Source: Annual Report – Organizational Information Appendices - World Bank Expenditures by Organizational Unit

https://www.worldbank.org/en/about/annual-report

NOTES:

The figures reported for each fiscal year represent the current organizational unit structure and may not always match the figures published in previous reports due to organizational changes and unit re-configurations. Additionally, these figures represent actuals as per management accounting and may differ from figures presented for financial accounting and reporting purposes that are in compliance with the United States' Generally Accepted Accounting Principles.

Beginning in fiscal 2018, the budget and related expenditures related to changes in the non-salary staff costs recovery rate charged to units were moved from centrally-managed accounts to corresponding organizational units. This contributed to the decrease in centrally-managed accounts and programs in fiscal 2018 and corresponding increases in other units. The changes entailed increasing the non-salary staff costs recovery rate for Headquarters-appointed staff from 50 percent to 70 percent and introducing a recovery rate of 45 percent for country office–appointed staff so as to more accurately reflect unit and product costs.

Important Note

We recommend users to adopt API service option only for datasets exceeding a million records. For other datasets, kindly use the JSON link available on the "Actions and Tools" section which enables extraction of all the records at once.

Parameters

Parameter	Description	API FIELD NAME	Data Type
Organizational Unit	Represents the aggregate of (i) individual units with budget accountability that are responsible for undertaking operational activities, and providing institutional, governance and administrative services; and (ii) income and expense categories such as grants, reimbursements, fees and others with assigned budgets.	organizational_unit	STRING
Vice Presidential Unit or Grouping	Represents individual vice presidential units or a grouping of units that are responsible for undertaking operational activities, and providing institutional, governance and administrative services under the leadership and direction of the senior management team.	vice_presidential_unit_or_grouping	STRING
Fiscal Year	Identifies the World Bank Group fiscal year, which is July 1 - June 30 (e.g., fiscal year 2009 represents July 1, 2008 to June 30, 2009).	fiscal_year	NUMBER
Actuals (US$, Millions)	Presents the actual administrative expenses.	actuals_us__millions	NUMBER
Subtotals (US$, Millions)	Presents the total of one set of a group of actual administrative budget expenses.	subtotals_us__millions	NUMBER
Notes	Footnotes or additional clarifications for a specific line item.	notes	STRING
Resource ID	ID of the associated Resource		STRING
Select	Fields that required E.g (fiscal_year\|supplier_country\|total_amount)		STRING
Top	Number of records to fetch		NUMBER
Skip	Skip the records from the ascending order		NUMBER

Please Note:

This API will support up to a maximum of 1000 records per request / page.
The date format for all date fields should be DD-MMM-YYYY.
Selection will allow for multiple parameters E.g (Country = India|Afghanistan).
The filters for blank and non-blank should be IS NULL and IS NOT NULL E.g (Country = IS NULL, Country = IS NOT NULL)

Dataset Identifier

DS00035

Data Provided By

World Bank Group

Owner

Finances One

Date Created

May 30, 2018

Last Updated

Aug 6, 2024

Licensing and Attribution

License

Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International

Additional Information

Type

Time Series

Source

World Bank Group

Periodicity

Annual

Granularity

Other

Provenance

official

Update Frequency

Annually

Economy Coverage

World

Range Column

fiscal_year

General Access Options

Query tool,API,Bulk download

Language

English

Update Schedule

October

Data As Of

2023

Data Last Updated

Aug 6, 2024

Metadata Last Updated

Aug 06, 2024

Scope

Institution

IBRD, IDA

Topics

CategoryBudget

Tags

administrative

What's in this Dataset?

Rows

172

Columns

JavaScript makes it super simple to fetch from an API endpoint.

fetch('https://datacatalogapi.worldbank.org/dexapps/fone/api/apiservice?datasetId=DS00035&resourceId=RS00034&top=100&type=json')
    .then(response => {
        if (!response.ok) {
            throw new Error('');
        }
        return response.json();
    })
    .then(data => {
        // Do something with the response data
        // console.log(data);
    })
    .catch(error => {
        console.error('Error:', error);
    });

Python for easily work with data.

import requests
url = 'https://datacatalogapi.worldbank.org/dexapps/fone/api/apiservice?datasetId=DS00035&resourceId=RS00034&top=100&type=json'
try:
    response = requests.get(url)
    response.raise_for_status()  # Raise an exception for 4XX and 5XX status codes
    data = response.json()  # Parse the JSON response
    print(data)  # Print the response data
except requests.RequestException as e:
    print(f'Error: {e}')

PowerShell code to extract data.

$url = 'https://datacatalogapi.worldbank.org/dexapps/fone/api/apiservice?datasetId=DS00035&resourceId=RS00034&top=100&type=json'
try {
    $response = Invoke-RestMethod -Uri $url -Method Get
    # Print the response
    Write-Output $response
} catch {
    # Print error message if request fails
    Write-Error "Error: $_"
}

The following snippet brings data into your application.

require 'net/http'
url = URI('https://datacatalogapi.worldbank.org/dexapps/fone/api/apiservice?datasetId=DS00035&resourceId=RS00034&top=100&type=json')
begin
response = Net::HTTP.get_response(url)
if response.is_a?(Net::HTTPSuccess)
    puts response.body
else
    puts "Error: #{response.code} - #{response.message}"
end
rescue StandardError => e
puts "Error: #{e.message}"
end

Below code that makes usage with .NET more natural.

using System;
using System.Net.Http;
using System.Threading.Tasks;
class Program
{
    static async Task Main(string[] args)
    {
        var response = await new HttpClient().GetStringAsync("https://datacatalogapi.worldbank.org/dexapps/fone/api/apiservice?datasetId=DS00035&resourceId=RS00034&top=100&type=json");
        Console.WriteLine(response);
    }
}

JAVA for easily work with data.

import java.io.BufferedReader;
import java.io.InputStreamReader;
import java.net.HttpURLConnection;
import java.net.URL;
public class Main {
    public static void main(String[] args) throws Exception {
        URL url = new URL("https://datacatalogapi.worldbank.org/dexapps/fone/api/apiservice?datasetId=DS00035&resourceId=RS00034&top=100&type=json");
        HttpURLConnection connection = (HttpURLConnection) url.openConnection();
        connection.setRequestMethod("GET");
        BufferedReader reader = new BufferedReader(new InputStreamReader(connection.getInputStream()));
        String line;
        StringBuffer response = new StringBuffer();
        while ((line = reader.readLine()) != null) {
            response.append(line);
        }
        reader.close();
        System.out.println(response.toString());
    }
}

The following snippet brings data into your application.

shell "curl -X GET https://datacatalogapi.worldbank.org/dexapps/fone/api/apiservice?datasetId=DS00035&resourceId=RS00034&top=100&type=json"

PHP code to brings the data.

<?php
// Specify the URL you want to send the GET request to
$url = "https://datacatalogapi.worldbank.org/dexapps/fone/api/apiservice?datasetId=DS00035&resourceId=RS00034&top=100&type=json";
// Initialize cURL session
$curl = curl_init();
// Set the cURL options
curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_URL, $url);
curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, true);
// Execute cURL session
$response = curl_exec($curl);
// Close cURL session
curl_close($curl);
// Print the response
echo $response;
?>

Copy and paste the following to import this dataset into Stata.

clear
. import delimited "https://datacatalogapi.worldbank.org/dexapps/fone/api/apiservice?datasetId=DS00035&resourceId=RS00034&top=100&type=json"

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World Bank Expenditures by Organizational Unit

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