Datagasm: World Bank links up to Stata!

From the World Bank site:

Stata is a statistical computing package widely used in the business and academic worlds. We use it at the World Bank and it’s great to see a new version of the wbopendata module that gives Stata users direct access to much of the data on data.worldbank.org... 

It’s important to have convenient access to the best data available. The wbopendata module connects to the World Bank Open Data API and provides direct access to the latest version of the Bank’s data though the Stata interface – there’s no unnecessary downloading or management of data needed.
The new version of wbopendata lets you:

• Access 1,000 new indicators, bringing the total up from 4,200 to 5,300 time series.

• Access the metadata of the downloaded series: including indicator definitions, the organization and/or agency responsible for its collection, and links to available supporting information.

• Easily link the indicators downloaded to maps from within Stata.

• Access data in three Stata-supported languages: English, Spanish or French

The wbopendata module lets you connect to information from over 256 and regions since 1960, the accessible datasets include:

• World Development Indicators

• Global Development Finance

• The African Development Indicators

• Doing Business

• Education Statistics

• Enterprise Surveys

• Gender Statistics

• Health Nutrition and Population Statistics

• Millennium Development Goals

• Worldwide Governance Indicators

To begin, just type in Stata: 

ssc install wbopendata

Further instructions can be found here. Cannot wait to try it out!