World Bank Data MCP Server - 16k+ Economic Indicators for AI Agents

Apify-hosted MCP server giving AI agents (Claude, Cursor, Continue) instant access to World Bank Open Data: ~16,000 global economic and development indicators for every country. Search indicators, pull time series, compare countries, get a country profile. No API key, no proxy, free official data. $0.01 per tool call.

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What is the World Bank MCP Server?

The World Bank MCP Server is an Apify actor implementing the Model Context Protocol for the World Bank Indicators API - the canonical open dataset for global GDP, population, inflation, unemployment, CO2, poverty, health, education, and ~16k more indicators across 200+ countries and decades of history.

It exposes 6 tools your AI agent can call to discover indicator codes, fetch time series, compare countries, and get a one-call country profile. Backed by the free official api.worldbank.org/v2 endpoint - no API key, no rate limit headaches, no proxy.

Use it standalone via the Apify API, or wire it into Claude Desktop / Cursor / Continue.dev as an MCP server to give your agent live macroeconomic data.

Use cases

• Economic research agents - let your AI pull GDP, inflation and unemployment time series for any country on demand.
• Finance / macro copilots - compare growth, debt or trade across a basket of countries in one tool call.
• Country due-diligence bots - one country_profile call returns the headline economic + development snapshot.
• Data journalism / OSINT - resolve a vague request ("CO2 per capita in the EU") into real indicator codes and values.
• Dashboards + RAG pipelines - feed authoritative World Bank numbers into LLM answers instead of hallucinated figures.

Tools available

Tool	What it returns
search_indicators(query, limit)	Indicator codes matching a keyword (GDP, CO2, ...)
get_indicator(indicator, country, start_year, end_year)	Time series for one indicator + country
compare_countries(indicator, countries, year)	One indicator across N countries, ranked
country_profile(country)	GDP, growth, population, inflation, unemployment, life expectancy
list_countries(region, income_level, limit)	Countries + ISO codes + region + income group
indicator_metadata(indicator)	Definition, source, organization, topics for a code
list_tools	Free - schema discovery

Input

{
  "mode": "call_tool",
  "tool_name": "country_profile",
  "arguments": { "country": "FR" }
}

Set mode: "list_tools" to get the full input schema for every tool - that call is free.

Output

{
  "country": "France",
  "country_id": "FR",
  "indicators": {
    "NY.GDP.MKTP.CD": { "label": "GDP (current US$)", "value": 3160442622465.08, "year": "2024" },
    "SP.POP.TOTL": { "label": "Population, total", "value": 68170228, "year": "2024" },
    "FP.CPI.TOTL.ZG": { "label": "Inflation, consumer prices (annual %)", "value": 2.0, "year": "2024" }
  },
  "source": "World Bank - World Development Indicators"
}

Pricing

PAY_PER_EVENT - $0.01 per tool call (= $10 per 1,000). Free actor starts. The list_tools discovery call is free. No charge if a tool returns an error.

FAQ

Which indicators are searchable? search_indicators scans the World Development Indicators catalog (~1,500 headline series: GDP, population, inflation, CO2, trade, health, education). The full API exposes ~16k indicators - pass any code directly to get_indicator or indicator_metadata.

What country codes are accepted? ISO2 (FR) or ISO3 (FRA). Use list_countries to discover codes, regions and income groups.

Why MCP instead of a regular scraper? MCP lets an AI agent decide which tool to call dynamically - resolve a keyword to a code, then fetch the series, then compare countries, all in one reasoning loop.

Does it work in Claude Desktop? Yes - wire the Apify actor URL as an MCP server and your AI agent gets the 6 tools instantly.

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License: MIT · Author: dltik