spb/tools-spboucher-ai

1{2  "slug": "world-bank-data",3  "name": "World Bank Open Data",4  "aliases": [5    "World Bank Indicators API",6    "World Development Indicators",7    "WDI",8    "Data360"9  ],10  "vendor": {11    "name": "World Bank Group",12    "slug": "world-bank",13    "website": "https://www.worldbank.org"14  },15  "homepage_url": "https://data.worldbank.org/",16  "docs_url": "https://datahelpdesk.worldbank.org/knowledgebase/topics/125589",17  "license_url": "https://www.worldbank.org/ext/en/legal/terms-conditions",18  "product_type": "data-service",19  "product_status": "active",20  "summary": "Free access to World Bank development indicators by country and year through a web portal, bulk downloads and a public REST API",21  "description": "World Bank Open Data is the World Bank Group's portal for its statistical databases, chief among them the World Development Indicators, along with debt, poverty, education, gender and project datasets. Indicators are available by country, region and income group over several decades, downloadable as CSV or Excel, and queryable through the Indicators API, an unauthenticated REST service returning JSON or XML for countries, indicators and sources with simple filters and paging. Wrappers exist for Python (wbgapi), R (WDI) and Stata, and the data catalogue adds metadata and licence information for each dataset, most under Creative Commons Attribution terms. It is used for cross-country macro panels, development research and teaching. Coverage gaps and revisions are common for low-income countries, indicator definitions can change between releases, and sub-national or high-frequency data are limited.",22  "capabilities": [23    "Country-year indicators across economic and social topics",24    "Public REST API returning JSON or XML without an API key",25    "Bulk CSV and Excel downloads",26    "Data catalogue with metadata and licences",27    "Wrappers for Python, R and Stata"28  ],29  "workflows": [30    "Build a cross-country panel of GDP, inflation and credit indicators",31    "Fetch indicator metadata to document variable definitions in a paper"32  ],33  "advantages": [34    "No authentication required",35    "Long time series and wide country coverage",36    "Open licensing for most datasets"37  ],38  "limitations": [39    "Missing values and revisions for many countries",40    "Mostly annual frequency",41    "Limited sub-national detail"42  ],43  "prerequisites": [44    "HTTP client or wrapper library"45  ],46  "audiences": [47    "Development and macro economists",48    "Students and journalists",49    "Policy analysts"50  ],51  "alternatives": [52    "imf-data",53    "eurostat",54    "statistics-canada",55    "fred"56  ],57  "comparison_notes": "IMF Data focuses on macro-financial and fiscal statistics with SDMX access; Eurostat covers EU member states in depth. Statistics Canada and FRED give national and monthly detail that World Bank annual indicators lack.",58  "categories": [59    {60      "slug": "open-public-data",61      "primary": true62    },63    {64      "slug": "market-data-apis",65      "label": "Macroeconomic indicators"66    }67  ],68  "tags": [69    "open-data",70    "macroeconomics",71    "api",72    "development",73    "econometrics"74  ],75  "use_cases": [76    "access-public-statistics",77    "write-papers"78  ],79  "operating_systems": [80    "web",81    "any"82  ],83  "execution_modes": [84    "cloud"85  ],86  "interfaces": [87    "web",88    "api"89  ],90  "deployment_models": [91    "saas"92  ],93  "integrations": [94    "wbgapi (Python)",95    "WDI (R)",96    "Stata"97  ],98  "data_formats": [99    "JSON",100    "XML",101    "CSV",102    "Excel"103  ],104  "languages": [],105  "source_model": "proprietary",106  "pricing_model": [107    "free"108  ],109  "self_hostable": false,110  "sources": [111    {112      "url": "https://data.worldbank.org/",113      "type": "official_site",114      "supports": [115        "name",116        "summary"117      ],118      "checked_at": "2026-11-02",119      "title": "World Bank Open Data"120    },121    {122      "url": "https://datahelpdesk.worldbank.org/knowledgebase/topics/125589",123      "type": "official_docs",124      "supports": [125        "capabilities",126        "interfaces",127        "data_formats"128      ],129      "checked_at": "2026-11-02",130      "title": "Developer Information — World Bank Data Help Desk"131    },132    {133      "url": "https://www.worldbank.org/ext/en/legal/terms-conditions",134      "type": "policy_page",135      "supports": [136        "pricing_model",137        "advantages"138      ],139      "checked_at": "2026-11-02",140      "title": "World Bank terms and conditions"141    }142  ],143  "confidence": "high",144  "depth": "standard",145  "featured": false,146  "discovery_method": "editorial-research",147  "editorial_status": "reviewed",148  "visibility": "public",149  "author": "batch-F"150}151