World Bank Indicators API

Put it to work

Potential use cases

A starting use for this source

Compare country-level macroeconomic, demographic and development context when considering international markets.

Add context to a market narrative

Compare an appropriate economic series with the market change you are investigating. Keep geography, time period and units consistent before using it in a planning memo or article.

What it covers

Geography and granularity

Geography: Countries and economies; some subnational or groupings by series

Granularity: Thousands of time-series indicators across many source databases

Source type: International development indicators

Access and cost

Public API

Use the documented v2 endpoints; the older v1 API has been retired.

Cost: Public data API; follow current access documentation.

Update cadence: Indicator-specific; many series have long historical ranges but are not real-time.

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Before you use it

Limits that matter

National indicators are broad context, not SaaS adoption or addressable-market counts. Verify the source, definitions and observation years for each indicator.

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