World Bank Indicator Monitor

Fetch World Bank economic and social indicators for multiple countries and emit clean Apify dataset rows. This Actor is designed for analysts, data teams, RAG pipelines, dashboards, and automation workflows that need repeatable snapshots of public World Bank time-series data without writing custom API glue.

Use cases

• Monitor GDP, unemployment, inflation, population, trade, and development indicators across country lists.
• Feed scheduled public macroeconomic snapshots into BI tools, spreadsheets, warehouses, or webhooks.
• Compare the same indicator across multiple countries with one Apify run.
• Build lightweight economic-data alerts by scheduling this Actor and consuming dataset rows.

Input

{
  "countries": ["US", "DE"],
  "indicators": ["NY.GDP.MKTP.CD", "SL.UEM.TOTL.ZS"],
  "dateRange": "2020:2025",
  "perPage": 1000,
  "maxItems": 1000,
  "includeMetadata": true
}

countries accepts World Bank country codes such as US, DE, IN, BR, or aggregate codes such as WLD. indicators accepts any World Bank indicator code. The Actor fetches every country/indicator pair and stops at maxItems.

Output

Each dataset row represents one country, indicator, and date:

{
  "source": "world-bank",
  "countryId": "US",
  "countryIso3Code": "USA",
  "countryName": "United States",
  "indicatorId": "NY.GDP.MKTP.CD",
  "indicatorName": "GDP (current US$)",
  "date": "2023",
  "value": 27811517000000,
  "unit": "",
  "fetchedAt": "2026-07-05T00:00:00.000Z"
}

If an upstream request fails, the Actor writes a structured error row with the country, indicator, URL, HTTP status, and error message, then continues with the remaining pairs.

Notes

This Actor uses the public World Bank API and does not require an API key. Users are responsible for validating that their downstream use of World Bank data matches their own licensing and attribution requirements.