We ask users to cite the data as follows (Chicago Manual of Style, author–date):
World Bank. 2026. “Women, Business and the Law” [dataset]. Washington, DC: World Bank. Accessed February 24, 2026. https://wbl.worldbank.org/en/wbl-data.
For tables and graphs, please indicate the source explicitly as:
Source: World Bank, Women, Business and the Law, https://wbl.worldbank.org/en/wbl
We also encourage users to include an acknowledgement line in their papers or books when using data or reports from the World Bank’s Women, Business and the Law Unit. We suggest the following wording; please feel free to amend as appropriate: "We thank the Women, Business and the Law Unit of the Development Economics Policy Indicators Group of the World Bank for the data."
We recommend that authors detail the version of the dataset through highlighting its name, version, and date of publication either in the citation or in the graphs/tables. Data files are updated on an annual basis and individual economy-level data are also available through our economy snapshots.
