Every Digital & AI publication of the Bank's Education, Health & Social Protection practices (plus cross-cutting Human-Capital work) · 2024–2026
Downloads by reader country (WB Documents)
Share of geo-located downloads
Only 35 of the 238 publications name AI in the title — chatbots, GenAI, machine learning — yet they pull 258,201 downloads, 50% of the whole theme. The other 203 are the broader digital work: digital skills, EdTech, digital service delivery, online gig work, social registries and telehealth.
The AI total is driven by Spanish- and Portuguese-language flagships — AI Revolution in Education: What You Ne… (78,904) and AI Revolution in Higher Education : Wha… (40,507) — read heavily across Latin America. The curated 8-publication Digital & AI Series sits inside this AI core.
Reader region (left) · publication language (right)
Prepared as a background paper for the Bank’s flagship World Development Report 2026: The Promise of Artificial Intelligence:
The flagship is the Bank’s corporate report (thousands of contributors), shown here as the reach your background paper fed into — it is not added to this page’s publication totals. The World Development Report 2026 is on the Open Knowledge Repository in English only so far; official-language editions will appear here automatically when the Bank publishes them. The background paper is hosted on the WDR paper series and has no separate download counter, so it is represented by its evidence weight.
🟡 AI = AI named in the title (chatbots, GenAI, machine learning); the rest are the broader digital theme · click any title or language to open ↗
Digital & AI publications, 2024–2026 · ranked by total downloads.
| HD group | Publications | Total downloads | Share | Downloads / pub | Top pub | Pubs <1K |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Education | 136 | 322,915 | 62.4% | 2,374 | 78,904 | 105 |
| Social Protection | 67 | 127,541 | 24.6% | 1,904 | 14,029 | 32 |
| Health | 33 | 46,783 | 9.0% | 1,418 | 8,932 | 20 |
| HD (cross-cutting) | 2 | 20,483 | 4.0% | 10,242 | 14,493 | 0 |
| All Human Development | 238 | 517,722 | 100% | 2,175 | — | 157 |
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Sources. Downloads are read from both World Bank repositories — WB Documents (documentos.bancomundial.org) and the Open Knowledge Repository (openknowledge.worldbank.org) — and summed across every language version of each publication.
Window. Publications with a document date in 2024–2026. Reader geography is from WB Documents (~99% of its downloads are geo-located; OKR downloads are not). “United States & high-income” is the World Bank's residual region grouping, here almost entirely the United States.
This theme is found by scanning the title of every 2024–2026 Human-Development publication for digital/AI terms (the broad definition). Education uses WB Documents + OKR; Health & Social Protection use WB Documents plus OKR only where the repository record matched by exact title and date — treat those two as lower bounds. This theme overlaps with, but is much broader than, the 8-publication Digital & AI Series.
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Figures refresh monthly (1st of each month) · last checked 25 Aug 2026.
Digital & AI theme (broad) across Education, Health & Social Protection. Education = WB Documents + OKR; Health & SP = WB Documents + verified OKR (lower bounds). Reader geography = WB Documents. Refreshes every 2 months.