Data from the World Bank's portal, last updated 2026-04-28, aims to shed light on Mali's technology base. It likely contains metrics on research and development, scientific publications, high-technology exports, and intellectual property. Sources include UNESCO Institute for Statistics, U.S. National Science Board, UN Statistics Division, IMF, and World Intellectual Property Organization.
Use Cases
- Benchmarking national R&D investment based on research and development data mentioned in the description
- Analyzing trends in scientific output based on scientific and technical journal articles
- Assessing economic specialization in high-tech sectors based on high-technology exports
- Studying intellectual property flows based on royalty and license fees, patents, and trademarks
Strengths
- License is CC-BY-4.0, permitting broad reuse with attribution
- Aggregates data from multiple authoritative sources including UNESCO, IMF, and WIPO
Limitations
- Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download
- Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment
- Description metadata is limited; actual data quality requires manual inspection after download
Provenance
- Source
- World Bank Group
- Collection Method
- Aggregated from sources including UNESCO Institute for Statistics, U.S. National Science Board, UN Statistics Division, International Monetary Fund, and World Intellectual Property Organization.
- Freshness
- Last updated 2026-04-28 09:06:21.446503; freshness should be verified
- Geography
- Mali