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World currency
A world currency is a currency used internationally as a unit of account, medium of exchange, and store of value; today the US dollar holds that role.
World Customs Organization
The World Customs Organization (WCO), founded in 1952 as the Customs Co-operation Council, is an intergovernmental body in Brussels whose 186 members process about 98 percent of world trade.
World Cycling Alliance
The World Cycling Alliance is a Brussels-based international non-profit founded in 2014 that unites more than 100 cycling advocacy organizations worldwide and co-campaigned for the United Nations' World Bicycle Day.
World Darts Federation
The World Darts Federation (WDF), founded in 1976, is the international body of national darts associations, running world rankings and the WDF World Darts Championship.
World Development Indicators
World Development Indicators (WDI) is the World Bank's primary compilation of cross-country development statistics, offering about 1,600 indicators for 217 economies with data from 1960 onward and quarterly updates.
World DJ Festival
World DJ Festival (월드 디제이 페스티벌) is an annual electronic dance music festival in South Korea, first staged in 2007 and now held at Seoul Land in Gwacheon.
World Downfall
World Downfall is the debut album by the American grindcore band Terrorizer, released by Earache Records in 1989 and widely regarded as a defining landmark of late-1980s grindcore.
World Dressage Championships
FEI Dressage World Championship, senior dressage world title held every four years; first held 1966 in Berne, part of World Equestrian Games 1990–2018; 2026 edition at Aachen, 11–15 August, with LA 2028 Olympic qualification.
World Economic Forum
The World Economic Forum (WEF) is a Swiss not-for-profit foundation, founded by Klaus Schwab in 1971, best known for its annual meeting of business and political leaders in Davos.
World economy
The world economy, also called the global economy, is the combined economic activity of all countries, worth about $118 trillion in 2025, led by the United States and China.
World Energy (company)
World Energy is an American low-carbon fuels company founded in Boston in 1998 and led by CEO Gene Gebolys, which describes itself as the world's first commercial-scale producer of sustainable aviation fuel.
World Energy Council
The World Energy Council is an independent, non-governmental global energy network founded in 1923 by Daniel Nicol Dunlop, with a secretariat in London and members in nearly 100 countries.
World Energy Outlook
The World Energy Outlook (WEO) is the International Energy Agency's annual flagship publication, first published in 1994, presenting long-term projections of global energy demand, supply, investment, and emissions under alternative scenarios.
World energy supply and consumption
World energy supply and consumption, also called primary energy or total energy supply, tracks global energy use: 620 EJ in 2023, over 80% fossil, with renewables in 2025 becoming the largest source of supply growth and passing coal in electricity.
World Englishes
World Englishes: applied-linguistics field studying regional varieties of English, founded on Braj Kachru's Three Circles model (1985) and the 1982 journal, distinguishing WE from ELF and Global Englishes paradigms.
World Enough and Time (Doctor Who)
World Enough and Time is Doctor Who Series 10 Episode 11 (BBC One, 24 June 2017), written by Steven Moffat, directed by Rachel Talalay. On a 400-mile colony ship near a black hole, time dilation lets Bill Potts be converted into a Mondasian Cyberman; John Simm's Master is revealed as Razor.
World Environment Day
World Environment Day: annual UN environmental day on 5 June since 1973, led by UNEP under resolution A/RES/2994 (XXVII) commemorating the 1972 Stockholm Conference, with annual themes, rotating host countries, and over 150 participating nations.
World Famous Lover (వర్ల్డ్ ఫేమస్ లవర్)
World Famous Lover (వర్ల్డ్ ఫేమస్ లవర్) is a 2020 Telugu romantic drama written and directed by Kranthi Madhav, starring Vijay Deverakonda, Raashi Khanna, Aishwarya Rajesh, Catherine Tresa, and Izabelle Leite; released 14 February 2020, it was a critical and box-office failure.
World Federation for Mental Health
The World Federation for Mental Health (WFMH) is an international non-governmental organization founded in 1948 that promotes mental health and organizes World Mental Health Day.
World Federation of Hemophilia
World Federation of Hemophilia (WFH), founded June 25, 1963 in Copenhagen by Frank Schnabel, is a non-profit federation of 122 national member organizations improving care for people with inherited bleeding disorders through treatment guidelines, humanitarian aid, and advocacy.
World Federation of Trade Unions
The World Federation of Trade Unions (WFTU) is an international federation of national trade union centers, founded in Paris in 1945 and based in Athens since 2006.
World fencing championships
The World Fencing Championships are fencing's senior world titles, organized by the International Fencing Federation in six individual and six team events, held annually except in Olympic years.
World Festival of Black Arts
The First World Festival of Negro Arts was a 1966 festival of African and diaspora art held in Dakar, Senegal, initiated by President Léopold Sédar Senghor.
World Field Archery Championships
The World Field Archery Championships are field archery's global title event, held every two years since 1969, organized by World Archery, with a separate IFAA championship under its own rules.
World Figure Skating Championships
The World Figure Skating Championships are the ISU's annual world titles in men's and women's singles, pairs, and ice dance, first held in 1896; known for the ISU Judging System, three-per-country entry quotas, and the Skategate-driven 2004 scoring overhaul.
World Financial Group
World Financial Group, formerly World Marketing Alliance, is an American multi-level marketing insurance agency owned by Transamerica that sells life insurance through independent contractor agents.
World Food Day
World Food Day, observed 16 October since 1981, was established by FAO Conference Resolution 1/79 in 1979 to mark FAO's 1945 founding and promote action against hunger, with annual themes in about 150 countries.
World Food Programme
The World Food Programme (WFP) is the United Nations' food-assistance organization, established in 1961, working in over 120 countries and awarded the 2020 Nobel Peace Prize.
World Football Elo Ratings
World Football Elo Ratings (eloratings.net): an Elo-system ranking of men's national football teams, updating after every match with match importance, goal margin, and home advantage; basis for FIFA's 2018 ranking change.
World Football League
The World Football League (WFL) was a 1974-1975 pro football challenger to the NFL, founded by Gary Davidson, won by the Birmingham Americans, and folded October 22, 1975.