What sort of services are being digitalized?

How the World Bank has spent its money

$80 billion is a lot of money - and that’s just what the World Bank has spent. The overall amount spent worldwide is likely to be much larger. So what’s all that money being spent on? If you look at the word cloud below, you’ll see some words are bigger than others. If they’re big, it means the World Bank has spent its $80 billion on many such projects. If they’re smaller, it means fewer such projects have been financed by the World Bank.

Source: World Bank
Data visualisation from: D3

Amount spent by project category (in million USD)

The charts below show how much the World Bank has spent on these type of projects. If the bar is long, it has spent lots of its $80 billion on that thing since 2001. If they’re shorter, it means less has been spent on it.

Let’s go and find out how one country, the USA, has developed its digital services, to help see things a bit more clearly.