World Bank

aid: worldbank
name: World Bank
description: World Bank open data platform providing REST APIs for accessing global development data including GDP, poverty
  indicators, health metrics, education statistics, country profiles, financial data, climate information, and project operations.
  All data is freely available under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 licensing with no authentication required for most endpoints.
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created: '2026-06-13'
modified: '2026-06-13'
specificationVersion: '0.19'
tags:
- Development Data
- Global Economics
- GDP
- Poverty
- Health Metrics
- Education
- Climate
- Finance
- World Bank
- Open Data
- Country Data
- Indicators
apis:
- aid: worldbank-indicators
  name: World Bank Indicators API
  description: Provides programmatic access to nearly 16,000 time series development indicators including GDP, poverty rates,
    health metrics, education statistics, and demographic data across countries and regions. Supports filtering by date range,
    country, region, income level, and lending type. Returns data in XML, JSON, JSONP, and JSON-stat formats.
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  humanURL: https://datahelpdesk.worldbank.org/knowledgebase/articles/889386-developer-information-overview
  baseURL: https://api.worldbank.org/v2
  tags:
  - Indicators
  - Time Series
  - Development Data
  - GDP
  - Poverty
  - Health
  - Education
  properties:
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://datahelpdesk.worldbank.org/knowledgebase/articles/898581-api-basic-call-structures
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: https://api.worldbank.org/v2
  contact:
  - FN: World Bank Data Help Desk
    url: https://datahelpdesk.worldbank.org
    email: data@worldbank.org
- aid: worldbank-data-catalog
  name: World Bank Data Catalog API
  description: Provides information about thousands of development-relevant datasets available through the World Bank Data
    Catalog. Supports searching, listing, viewing dataset metadata, and downloading resource files. Supports OData-style query
    parameters for filtering, sorting, and pagination with up to 100 records per request.
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  humanURL: https://datahelpdesk.worldbank.org/knowledgebase/articles/1886698-data-catalog-api
  baseURL: https://datacatalogapi.worldbank.org
  tags:
  - Data Catalog
  - Datasets
  - Metadata
  - Development Data
  properties:
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://datahelpdesk.worldbank.org/knowledgebase/articles/1886698-data-catalog-api
  contact:
  - FN: World Bank Data Help Desk
    url: https://datahelpdesk.worldbank.org
    email: data@worldbank.org
- aid: worldbank-projects
  name: World Bank Projects API
  description: Provides access to World Bank operations data including active, pipeline, and closed projects. Returns project
    details including financial commitments, status, country classification, themes, and team information across IBRD and
    IDA lending operations worldwide.
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  humanURL: https://datahelpdesk.worldbank.org/knowledgebase/articles/889386-developer-information-overview
  baseURL: https://search.worldbank.org/api/v2/projects
  tags:
  - Projects
  - Operations
  - Loans
  - Development Finance
  properties:
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://datahelpdesk.worldbank.org/knowledgebase/articles/889386-developer-information-overview
  contact:
  - FN: World Bank Data Help Desk
    url: https://datahelpdesk.worldbank.org
    email: data@worldbank.org
- aid: worldbank-finances
  name: World Bank Finances API
  description: Provides programmatic access to World Bank financial data including loans, credits, trust funds, budget data,
    and financial statements. Delivered through the Finances One platform with support for JSON and CSV output. Maximum 1,000
    records per request with pagination support.
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  humanURL: https://financesone.worldbank.org/api-explorer
  baseURL: https://datacatalogapi.worldbank.org/dexapps/fone/api
  tags:
  - Finance
  - Loans
  - Credits
  - Budget
  - Financial Statements
  properties:
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://financesone.worldbank.org/api-explorer
  contact:
  - FN: World Bank Finances
    url: https://financesone.worldbank.org
    email: data@worldbank.org
- aid: worldbank-sdmx
  name: World Bank SDMX API
  description: Provides access to World Bank development data in SDMX (Statistical Data and Metadata eXchange) format, the
    international standard for statistical data sharing. Supports World Development Indicators (WDI) dataset with annual data
    from 1960 onwards. Limited to 15,000 data points per call. Supports SDMX-ML 2.1 and JSON response formats.
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  humanURL: https://datahelpdesk.worldbank.org/knowledgebase/articles/1886701-sdmx-api-queries
  baseURL: https://api.worldbank.org/v2/sdmx/rest
  tags:
  - SDMX
  - World Development Indicators
  - Statistics
  - International Standards
  properties:
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://datahelpdesk.worldbank.org/knowledgebase/articles/1886701-sdmx-api-queries
  contact:
  - FN: World Bank Data Help Desk
    url: https://datahelpdesk.worldbank.org
    email: data@worldbank.org
common:
- type: Website
  url: https://data.worldbank.org
- type: Documentation
  url: https://datahelpdesk.worldbank.org/knowledgebase/articles/889386-developer-information-overview
- type: GitHubOrg
  url: https://github.com/worldbank
- type: LinkedIn
  url: https://linkedin.com/showcase/world-bank-development-economics
- type: Blog
  url: https://blogs.worldbank.org/opendata
- type: Pricing
  url: https://www.worldbank.org/en/about/legal/terms-of-use-for-datasets
- type: X
  url: https://x.com/worldbankdata
- type: Plans
  url: plans/worldbank-plans-pricing.yml
- type: RateLimits
  url: rate-limits/worldbank-rate-limits.yml
- type: FinOps
  url: finops/worldbank-finops.yml
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com