Why is there missing data for high-income countries?
Some indicators and datasets do not include data on high-income countries. This typically occurs because high-income countries are not World Bank borrowers and thus are not obligated to report figures on topics such as debt and aid. High-income countries do not report the following data:
- External
debt: the World Bank Debtor Reporting System reports debt from borrowing
countries only, excluding high-income countries;
- Aid data: high-income countries do not report aid data
because they are not aid recipients;
- Poverty data:
the scope of poverty series focuses on developing countries (low and middle-income) only;
- Country
Policy and Institutional Assessment: the CPIA database covers countries with
IDA eligibility, which is restricted to low-income countries;
- Enterprise
Surveys;
- Private Participation
in Infrastructure