# World Bank

**Canonical:** https://apis.io/providers/worldbank/  
**Website:** https://data.worldbank.org  
**APIs profiled:** 10

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.

## Kin Score — 32.8 / 100 (thin)

Scored 2026-08-20 under rubric 0.12.0. Trend: flat (+0.0 from 32.8).

| Facet | Score |
|---|---|
| Discoverability | 74.1 |
| Contract Quality | 57.7 |
| Governance | 9.8 |
| Contract Governance | 9.8 |
| Operational Transparency | 36.8 |
| Developer Ergonomics | 11.9 |
| Commercial Clarity | 18.4 |
| Access Clarity | 18.4 |

Regulatory layer — **Education & Research**: 20.4 (matched via tags).

## Agent readiness — 24.5 (agent-aware)

| Dimension | Value |
|---|---|
| Spec Presence | yes |
| Agentic Access | derived |
| Reversibility Documented | na |
| MCP Server | no |
| Auth Clarity | no |
| Idempotency | na |
| Error Semantics | no |
| OpenAPI Examples | no |
| Rate Limit Signal | documented |
| Event Surface Described | no |
| Agent Skills | no |
| Well Known Catalog | no |
| Consent Identity | no |
| Agent Card | no |
| Dry Run Mode | na |

## Access

Open access — onboarding: open, pricing: unknown, trial: no (confidence: medium).

## APIs (10)

- **World Bank Data Catalog API** — Provides information about thousands of development-relevant datasets available through the World Bank Data Catalog. Supports searching, listing, viewing dataset metadata, and d...
- **World Bank Projects API** — Provides access to World Bank operations data including active, pipeline, and closed projects. Returns project details including financial commitments, status, country classific...
- **World Bank Finances API** — Provides programmatic access to World Bank financial data including loans, credits, trust funds, budget data, and financial statements. Delivered through the Finances One platfo...
- **World Bank SDMX API** — Provides access to World Bank development data in SDMX (Statistical Data and Metadata eXchange) format, the international standard for statistical data sharing. Supports World D...
- **World Bank Classifications API** — The Classifications API from World Bank — 2 operation(s) for classifications.
- **World Bank Countries API** — The Countries API from World Bank — 2 operation(s) for countries.
- **World Bank Indicators API** — The Indicators API from World Bank — 5 operation(s) for indicators.
- **World Bank Regions API** — The Regions API from World Bank — 1 operation(s) for regions.
- **World Bank Sources API** — The Sources API from World Bank — 1 operation(s) for sources.
- **World Bank Topics API** — The Topics API from World Bank — 2 operation(s) for topics.

## Agentic access (1)

- **Worldbank Agentic Access** — 12 operations

## Security (1)

- **Worldbank Domain Security** — TLSv1.3 · HSTS · DMARC

## Tags

Development Data, Global Economics, GDP, Poverty, Health Metrics, Education, Climate, Finance, World Bank, Open Data, Country Data, Indicators

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Profiled by [API Evangelist](https://apievangelist.com) and published on [APIs.io](https://apis.io/providers/worldbank/). Scores are computed from the provider's own public artifacts under a published rubric.