Macro Data API: Inflation, GDP, Unemployment by Country

Use when: a finance or research agent needs clean headline macro numbers by country (IMF World Economic Outlook, with projections) or an inflation calculation ("what is $100 from 2000 worth now?"), without parsing IMF/World Bank files.

Try this input (also the default, just click Start)

{"requests": ["United Kingdom", {"action": "inflation", "country": "US", "amount": 100, "from_year": 2000}]}

Sample output (real run, 3 Nov 2026, trimmed)

{"action": "indicators", "country": "GBR", "indicators": {"inflation_pct": {"2024": 2.5, "2025": 3.4, "2026": 3.3, "2027": 2.8},
  "gdp_growth_pct": {"2025": 1.2, "2026": 1.3}, "unemployment_pct": {"2025": 4.9, "2026": 5.3}, "gov_debt_pct_gdp": {"2026": 102}},
 "note": "IMF World Economic Outlook: years after the latest actual are IMF projections.", "error": null}
{"action": "inflation", "country": "USA", "amount": 100, "from_year": 2000, "to_year": 2024, "value": 182.17, "cumulative_inflation_pct": 82.17, "avg_annual_pct": 2.53, "error": null}

Options

• Country as ISO2, ISO3 or English name. years: [from, to] (default last 3 years to next year).
• action: "inflation" with amount, from_year, optional to_year (World Bank CPI).

Indicators: inflation %, real GDP growth %, unemployment %, GDP (US$ bn), GDP per capita, government debt % GDP, current account % GDP, population (m). No API key needed.

Pricing: pay per event, $0.003 per macro lookup (one country, or one inflation calculation). Rows with errors are not charged. No subscription.

Limits & failure modes

• Annual data only; IMF forecasts are revised in April and October and future years are projections.
• Inflation calculator ends at the latest World Bank CPI year (2024 in testing), not today.
• Sources: IMF DataMapper ("Source: IMF"), World Bank WDI (CC BY 4.0).

Last tested: 3 Nov 2026.

Use from AI agents (MCP)

• Apify MCP server: add https://mcp.apify.com/?tools=tudorlane/macro-indicators to Claude, Cursor, ChatGPT, VS Code or any MCP client.
• REST: POST https://api.apify.com/v2/acts/tudorlane~macro-indicators/run-sync-get-dataset-items?token=YOUR_TOKEN with the input JSON.