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World Bank Open Data API
Keyless macroeconomic indicators for every country: GDP, inflation, population and more
The World Bank Open Data API exposes thousands of development and macroeconomic indicators (GDP, inflation, population, unemployment, trade) for nearly every country, with long historical series. It is completely free and keyless. Responses are JSON or XML.
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No keyBase URL
https://api.worldbank.org/v2What you'd build with it
- Macro context for a country-analysis or geo-economics skill
- Compare GDP, inflation or population trends across countries
- Backfill long historical macro series into a data warehouse
- Enrich a report with authoritative development indicators
Key endpoints
- GET
/country/US/indicator/NY.GDP.MKTP.CD?format=jsonIndicator time series for a country (e.g. GDP for the US) - GET
/country/all/indicator/SP.POP.TOTL?format=jsonAn indicator across all countries (e.g. total population) - GET
/country?format=jsonList of countries with region and income metadata - GET
/indicator?format=jsonCatalogue of available indicators and their codes
Members
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Tags
macroeconomicsindicatorskeylessopen-data