World Bank Data Scraper

Fetch time-series economic data from the World Bank Open Data API — completely free, no API key required.

Pull GDP, population, inflation, unemployment, trade, CO2 emissions, and 20,000+ other indicators across 200+ countries with a single run.

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What you get

Each output row contains one country × indicator × year data point:

Field	Example
country_code	US
country_name	United States
indicator_code	NY.GDP.MKTP.CD
indicator_name	GDP (current US$)
year	2023
value	27357000000000
source	World Bank

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Popular indicators

Indicator Code	Name
NY.GDP.MKTP.CD	GDP (current US$)
NY.GDP.PCAP.CD	GDP per capita (current US$)
SP.POP.TOTL	Population, total
FP.CPI.TOTL.ZG	Inflation, consumer prices (annual %)
SL.UEM.TOTL.ZS	Unemployment, total (% of labor force)
NE.EXP.GNFS.ZS	Exports of goods and services (% of GDP)
EN.ATM.CO2E.PC	CO2 emissions (metric tons per capita)
SE.ADT.LITR.ZS	Literacy rate, adult total (% of people)
SP.DYN.LE00.IN	Life expectancy at birth, total (years)
EG.USE.PCAP.KG.OE	Energy use (kg of oil equivalent per capita)

Use mode=indicators to browse all 20,000+ available indicators.

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Modes

data (default) — Time-series economic data

Fetch actual values for selected countries and indicators over a year range.

Input example:

{
  "mode": "data",
  "indicators": ["NY.GDP.MKTP.CD", "FP.CPI.TOTL.ZG"],
  "countries": ["US", "CN", "KR", "DE"],
  "startYear": 2015,
  "endYear": 2023
}

Use "countries": ["all"] to fetch data for every country.

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indicators — Browse available indicators

Returns a searchable list of World Bank indicators with their codes, names, source, and topics.

{ "mode": "indicators", "maxIndicators": 500 }

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countries — Browse available countries

Returns the full list of countries with ISO codes, region, income level, and capital.

{ "mode": "countries" }

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Use cases

• Economic research — compare GDP growth across countries over decades
• Data journalism — visualize inequality, poverty, or climate indicators
• Financial modeling — enrich quantitative models with macro data
• Academic projects — download World Bank datasets programmatically
• Dashboard backends — power live economic dashboards without manual downloads

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Pricing

Event	Price
Actor start	$0.005
Per data point fetched	$0.001

A typical run (8 countries × 3 indicators × 14 years) returns ~300 data points = $0.005 + $0.30 = ~$0.31 total.

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Notes

• Data sourced from the World Bank Open Data API
• No API key or authentication required
• Some indicators may have missing values for certain country/year combinations (shown as null)
• Historical data goes back to 1960 for many indicators

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Related actors

• OECD Stats Tracker — OECD member country economic statistics to complement World Bank global coverage
• BIS Central Bank Data — Bank for International Settlements data on monetary policy and banking sector health
• ECB Economic Data Tracker — Eurozone-specific monetary and macroeconomic data for EU country analysis

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