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worldbank-mcp-server

Query 29,500+ World Bank development indicators for 200+ countries across 60+ years via MCP. STDIO or Streamable HTTP.

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What's in it

Data offered docs-verified: World Bank development indicator catalog (29,500+ indicators): search and metadata · country-level indicator time series · poverty headcount, gap, severity, Gini and decile shares (Poverty and Inequality Platform) · World Bank lending project portfolio search · country and aggregate metadata · topic and source lists
Coverage docs-verified: 200+ countries and regional aggregates (global) · 60+ years (PIP coverage from 1963)
Resolution docs-verified: Country and aggregate level; annual, quarterly or monthly where the series publishes that frequency
Formats docs-verified: MCP stdio · MCP streamable HTTP
Access docs-verified: Free and open; no API key required (public, unauthenticated World Bank Open Data API). Server licence: Apache-2.0

Useful for

Use cases llm-inferred: International benchmarking: income level, population and GDP per capita context for overseas water or civils project options (worldbank_get_country, worldbank_get_data) · Social impact assessment for overseas schemes: poverty headcount and Gini at national poverty lines (worldbank_get_poverty) · Development-finance pipeline screening: active and historical World Bank lending projects by country and sector (worldbank_search_projects)
Audience llm-inferred: environmental consultants · international development consultants · civils and water engineers working on overseas projects · planners and policy analysts

Limitations

Constraints llm-inferred: Depends on the upstream World Bank APIs; outages or timeouts are reported as upstream errors rather than data · Described coverage is national and aggregate level only; no sub-national, catchment or gridded data is described · Keyword search runs client-side because the upstream searchterm parameter does not filter · Pages are capped (e.g. 100 sources, 150 countries, 200 observations, 70 poverty estimates, 80 projects), so large pulls need pagination · Poverty inequality fields are null for gap-filled estimates; missing data cells return null · Project data covers the Bank's lending portfolio only · Catalogue auth note ('OAuth') is not reflected in DOCS, which say no API key is required · Catalogue tools list omits worldbank_get_poverty; DOCS list 9 tools · Pre-1.0 release (v0.5.3); maintenance risk

Licence: Apache-2.0
Authentication: OAuth mentioned in README (auto-extracted)
GitHub stars: 3
Last commit: 07/10/2026
Last successful page check: 14/10/2026
Page health: restricted
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Verification: Not independently verified

Auto-extracted, unverified fields: tools, install, auth. Check upstream documentation.

Provenance & evidence

Tools/install/auth auto-extracted from README; quality score heuristic (stars, recency, tool count, licence).

Metadata observed 15/10/2026 · research sweep: github-search