World Bank Data Scraper 🌍📊

Scrape World Bank economic indicators — GDP, population, inflation, unemployment and 1000s more — by country and year, straight into a clean, structured dataset. No API key, no login, no scraping headaches. One row per country / indicator / year, ready for research, dashboards and machine-learning pipelines.

Powered by the official World Bank Indicators API (open data), this actor turns messy paginated JSON into tidy time-series rows.

✨ Why use this actor?

• No API key required — start pulling data immediately.
• 1000s of indicators — GDP, GDP per capita, population, inflation (CPI), unemployment, GDP growth, and thousands of other World Bank series.
• Any country, any year range — single countries, a custom list, or all.
• Clean tabular output — flat rows (country, indicator, year, value, …), perfect for CSV/Excel/Pandas.
• Cheap & fast — datacenter-friendly, ~$0.50 per 1,000 results.
• Pagination handled — full historical time series pulled automatically.

💡 Use cases

• Economic research — build country panels for GDP, inflation and unemployment.
• Data journalism — chart long-run trends across nations in minutes.
• Machine-learning features — enrich models with macro indicators by country/year.
• Dashboards & BI — feed live macroeconomic data into Power BI, Tableau, Looker or Grafana.

🛠 Input

Field	Type	Description
mode	select	Scrape mode. indicators fetches the time series for each country × indicator.
countries	array	ISO 2/3-letter country codes, e.g. ["US","DE","CN","IN"]. Use ["all"] for every country.
indicators	array	World Bank indicator codes, e.g. ["NY.GDP.MKTP.CD","SP.POP.TOTL"].
dateFrom	string	Optional start year (YYYY), e.g. 2000.
dateTo	string	Optional end year (YYYY), e.g. 2023.
maxItems	integer	Max data points to collect (default 500, max 5000).

Example input

{
  "mode": "indicators",
  "countries": ["US", "DE", "CN", "IN"],
  "indicators": ["NY.GDP.MKTP.CD", "SP.POP.TOTL"],
  "dateFrom": "2015",
  "dateTo": "2023",
  "maxItems": 500
}

📤 Output

Each item is a single observation:

{
  "country": "United States",
  "country_code": "USA",
  "indicator": "GDP (current US$)",
  "indicator_code": "NY.GDP.MKTP.CD",
  "year": "2022",
  "value": 26054614000000,
  "unit": null,
  "source": "worldbank",
  "scraped_at": "2026-07-21T00:00:00+00:00"
}

📚 Common indicator codes

Code	Indicator
NY.GDP.MKTP.CD	GDP (current US$)
NY.GDP.PCAP.CD	GDP per capita (current US$)
NY.GDP.MKTP.KD.ZG	GDP growth (annual %)
SP.POP.TOTL	Population, total
SP.POP.GROW	Population growth (annual %)
FP.CPI.TOTL.ZG	Inflation, consumer prices (annual %)
SL.UEM.TOTL.ZS	Unemployment, total (% of labor force)
NE.EXP.GNFS.ZS	Exports of goods & services (% of GDP)
NE.IMP.GNFS.ZS	Imports of goods & services (% of GDP)
SP.DYN.LE00.IN	Life expectancy at birth (years)

Browse all indicators at data.worldbank.org/indicator.

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💰 Pricing

Pay-per-result at roughly $0.50 per 1,000 data points. Most economic-research runs cost just a few cents.

⚖️ Legal

This actor uses the World Bank's open data API. World Bank data is generally provided under the CC BY 4.0 license — please attribute the source. Use responsibly and in line with the World Bank's terms.

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