World Bank Indicators Scraper — GDP, Population, Inflation & More

Pull World Bank development indicators in bulk as clean, structured JSON, CSV, Excel or XML. Choose any indicator codes (GDP, population, inflation, unemployment, trade, life expectancy and thousands more) and any list of countries — or all countries at once — set an optional year range, and get one flat record per country × indicator × year. Ideal for research, dashboards, economic models and automated data pipelines.

What does World Bank Indicators Scraper do?

This scraper turns the World Bank's open development data into a ready-to-use dataset. Ask for a set of indicator codes and countries, optionally narrow to a year range, and it returns one tidy row per data point — with the country, indicator name, year, value and unit. Use it to build economic dashboards, back-test models, enrich reports, or keep a fresh copy of key indicators on a schedule.

What data can you get?

Field	Description
country	Country or region name.
countryIso	Two-letter ISO country code.
countryIso3	Three-letter ISO country code.
indicator	World Bank indicator code (e.g. NY.GDP.MKTP.CD).
indicatorName	Human-readable indicator name (e.g. "GDP (current US$)").
year	Observation year.
value	Indicator value for that country and year.
unit	Unit of measure, when the source provides one.

Use cases

• Economic dashboards — power GDP, inflation or population dashboards for any set of countries.
• Research & modelling — assemble multi-country, multi-year panels for analysis.
• Country comparisons — line up the same indicators across markets and years.
• Reporting — drop fresh figures into reports, briefs and presentations.
• Data pipelines — feed structured indicator data into BI tools, notebooks or apps.

How to use it

1. Add World Bank Indicators Scraper to your Apify account and open its input.
2. Enter one or more countries as ISO codes (e.g. US, SG, GB), or a single all for every country.
3. Enter one or more indicators codes (e.g. NY.GDP.MKTP.CD, SP.POP.TOTL).
4. Optionally set a year range such as 2010:2023.
5. Click Run, then export the results as JSON, CSV, Excel or XML.

Input

{
  "countries": ["US", "SG"],
  "indicators": ["NY.GDP.MKTP.CD", "SP.POP.TOTL"],
  "dateRange": "2018:2022"
}

Field	Description
countries	ISO country codes, e.g. US, SG, GB. Use all for every country and region.
indicators	World Bank indicator codes, e.g. NY.GDP.MKTP.CD (GDP), SP.POP.TOTL (population).
dateRange	Optional year or year range, e.g. 2020 or 2010:2023. Empty = all years.
includeEmptyValues	Also output rows where the value is missing. Off by default.
maxItems	Cap the total number of data points returned. 0 = no limit.

What you get

One flat JSON record per data point, ready to export to CSV, Excel, JSON or XML.

{
  "country": "Singapore",
  "countryIso": "SG",
  "countryIso3": "SGP",
  "indicator": "NY.GDP.MKTP.CD",
  "indicatorName": "GDP (current US$)",
  "year": "2022",
  "value": 514252535238.749,
  "unit": null
}

Popular indicator codes

Code	Indicator
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 labour force)
SP.DYN.LE00.IN	Life expectancy at birth (years)
NE.EXP.GNFS.ZS	Exports of goods and services (% of GDP)

FAQ

Which indicators can I request? Any World Bank indicator code. Pass one or more codes in the indicators field; each is fetched for every country you list.

How do I get every country at once? Set countries to a single value all. This includes countries as well as regional and income-group aggregates.

Can I limit the years? Yes — set dateRange to a single year (2020) or a range (2010:2023).

What export formats are available? JSON, CSV, Excel and XML, plus programmatic access through the Apify API.

Can I use this with n8n? Yes. Run it from the Apify n8n community node or trigger it over HTTP, then pass the dataset items straight into your n8n workflow for transforming, storing or alerting on indicator data.

Can I connect this to my other tools? It works with Make, Zapier, Slack, Airbyte, GitHub, Google Drive and many more, plus the Apify API, JavaScript/Python clients and MCP. Or use webhooks to trigger an action whenever a run finishes.

How often is the data updated? Values reflect the World Bank's latest published figures at run time. Re-run on a schedule to keep your copy fresh.

Is this official World Bank data? The data reflects public World Bank development indicators, but this actor is an independent tool and is not affiliated with or endorsed by the World Bank.

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Notes

Original clean-room implementation. Returns only public development-indicator data; you are responsible for compliant use. Not affiliated with the World Bank; all trademarks belong to their respective owners.