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The World Bank has a lot of data on their website that is shown on maps.

Is there is a way to download this data and use it in Qgis, preferably via shapefiles?

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    while this is a useful answer and I'm sure the plugin is great, could you edit the question to make it more questioning.
    – Ian Turton
    Commented Jun 15, 2017 at 16:32

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There is a great plugin that enable you to import the world bank data into Qgis The first thing is install the World Bank plugin.the World Bank Data plugin

The plugin will be at the plugin menu QGIS plugin menu

Once you click it you will have a window with topics. In this window you will be able to choose topics and subtopics for a given year. Before you press "OK" you need to choose the folder that your shapefile will be saved into. enter image description here

I have choose the "Agriculture, value added (% of GDP) (2014)" topic. It looks like this: enter image description here Canada is missing because it had no value.

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