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The 2013 edition of World Development Indicators (WDI) has just been released. WDI 2013 provides a new look to high-quality cross-country comparable statistics about development and people's lives around the globe. All the new features of the WDI suite of products can be accessed from data.worldbank.org/wdi, and include: *New online tables with all the data tables , will be automatically updated when the database is updated four times a year, and can be accessed in web browsers or downloaded as PDF files *An improved WDI "DataFinder" application available in English, Spanish, French and Chinese, in tablet and mobile phone editions for both Android and iOS. The full text of the printed book is also included. *An update to the WDI database, including improved notes and metadata "about the data" from the printed book, explaining the relevance of the indicators for development, their source, and their methodology. *An updated version of the Little Data Book 2013

The Humanitarian Kiosk (HKiosk) application provides a range of up-to-the-minute humanitarian related information from emergencies around the world. The application has multiple independant kiosks which reflect locations where UN-OCHA operates or there is an ongoing international humanitarian emergency

Curently only for iPad, Android will follow somewhere in 2013