World Bank Data Scraper - Economic Indicators

Pull World Bank Open Data economic indicators for any country and year range - GDP, inflation, population, unemployment, CO2, life expectancy and 20,000+ more - as clean, one-row-per-observation data with full indicator and country metadata. Or switch to catalog mode and list every indicator to discover codes. Built on the official API - no key, no browser, no proxy.

What you get

Data mode - one row per country-year observation:

Field	Meaning
indicatorId / indicatorName	The indicator code and its name
countryId / countryName / countryIso3	The country (or aggregate, e.g. EU, World)
year / value	The year and the reported value
unit / obsStatus / decimal	Unit, observation status and precision where given

Catalog mode (mode: indicators) - one row per indicator: indicatorId, indicatorName, sourceName, sourceNote, sourceOrganization, topics.

Input

{ "indicators": ["NY.GDP.MKTP.CD", "FP.CPI.TOTL.ZG"], "countries": ["US", "CN", "DE"], "dateRange": "2015:2023" }

• Indicator codes - one per line, e.g. NY.GDP.MKTP.CD (GDP), SP.POP.TOTL (population). Run Mode = List indicators to discover the full catalog.
• Countries - 2- or 3-letter ISO codes, or aggregates like EUU, WLD. Empty = all countries.
• Year range - 2023 or 2010:2023. Empty = all years.
• Include empty values - keep years a country did not report (off by default, so you only pay for real data points). Import from a file and output fields work as on our other actors.

Leave everything empty and the run returns a small free sample (GDP for US/CN/DE, 2020-2023).

Reliability

Reads the official World Bank v2 API

• keyless, no anti-bot, page-2 data shape handled, deep-paginated across every matching observation. An unrecognized indicator code, an empty result or a failed request bills $0 and says what to fix.

Honest limits

• Coverage follows the World Bank's own data - not every country reports every indicator every year. Missing years are skipped by default (turn on Include empty values to keep them as nulls).
• unit is often blank because most World Bank series encode the unit in the indicator name (e.g. "GDP (current US$)") rather than a separate field - that is the source's shape.
• Values are the latest World Bank revision at run time; historical figures are periodically restated by the World Bank, so a value can change between runs.

Pricing

$0.0006 per record on the FREE tier (tiered pricing lowers it with volume) - priced for bulk, since one indicator across many countries and years yields thousands of rows. Only saved rows are billed.

Output views

• Observations - indicator, country, year, value, indicator ID, ISO3.

Use with AI assistants (MCP)

Available through the Apify MCP server - an agent can pull a country's macro indicators for a briefing, build a cross-country GDP/inflation panel, or discover indicator codes from the catalog in one call.

Agent-ready: autonomous payments (x402 & Skyfire)

This actor is agent-ready - AI agents can discover it, run it, and pay for it autonomously, with no Apify account and no human in the loop. It uses pay-per-event pricing and limited permissions, so it qualifies for Apify's agentic-payment standards:

• x402 - an open, HTTP-native payment protocol. Agents pay per run in USDC on the Base network directly through the Apify MCP server - no account, no API key.
• Skyfire - agent-to-service payments for fully autonomous AI-agent workflows.

Building an AI agent, MCP tool, or autonomous data pipeline? This scraper is ready to plug in and pay as it goes.