Celebrating 20 years of the World Bank Enterprise Surveys: Insights from the first complete global cycle, 2023-2026 Eugenia RodríguezCierra WellsMohammad Amin October 23, 2026 This page in: English

https://blogs.worldbank.org/en/opendata/celebrating-20-years-of-the-world-bank-enterprise-surveys--insig Twenty years ago, the World Bank Group began asking firms simple yet powerful questions: How do firms experience the business environment in which they operate? What does it take to run a business? On May 20th, 2026, the World Bank Enterprise Surveys (WBES) marked two decades of doing exactly that while achieving a historic milestone: for the first time, the globe was covered in a single three-year cycle; the 2023–2026 database now spans 164 economies across every continent.