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worldbank-mcp

World Bank Model Context Protocol service based on World Bank Open Data API

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What's in it

Data offered docs-verified
country information · indicator search · economic: GDP, GDP growth, GDP per capita, GNI, GNI per capita, exports % of GDP, FDI net inflows, inflation, unemployment · social: population, life expectancy, birth rate, death rate, internet users · education: literacy rate, primary school enrolment, primary completion, primary teachers, education expenditure · health and nutrition: health expenditure, physicians, hospital beds, immunization, HIV prevalence, undernourishment, tuberculosis incidence
Coverage docs-verified
Global
Formats llm-inferred
MCP stdio
Access docs-verified
Local install via npm (global or npx); MIT licence; no authentication specified

Useful for

Use cases llm-inferred
Country-level population and life expectancy context for international water or civils bid documents · GDP per capita and income-level context for development-finance funding submissions · Internet usage and population baselines for socio-economic sections of overseas environmental assessments
Audience llm-inferred
international development consultants · economists · environmental consultants preparing socio-economic baselines · developers building MCP-based research tools

Limitations

Constraints llm-inferred
No geospatial, hydrological, flood, drainage or UK-specific sub-national data is listed, so the 'gis' category does not match the offered data · Data is country-level only, via country codes · Only the enumerated indicators in the docs are supported; no water, WASH or environmental indicators are listed · Requires a Node.js/npm runtime for local install · Depends on World Bank API availability; no rate limits or SLA are documented · Default query window is 10 years unless 'years' is set · Catalogue entry lists no tools, but the docs describe seven · Maintenance activity was not assessed from the docs provided

Example tool calls docs-verified

Retrieve 10 years of UK GDP per capita (current US$) for an income-context baseline.

{
  "tool": "get-economic-data",
  "arguments": {
    "countryCode": "GB",
    "indicator": "GDP_PER_CAPITA",
    "years": 10
  }
}

Find available World Bank indicator codes matching a keyword before querying data.

{
  "tool": "search-indicators",
  "arguments": {
    "keyword": "population"
  }
}

Retrieve 10 years of UK total population for a socio-economic baseline.

{
  "tool": "get-social-data",
  "arguments": {
    "countryCode": "GB",
    "indicator": "POPULATION",
    "years": 10
  }
}
Licence
MIT
Authentication
Unknown — review source docs
GitHub stars
8
Last commit
01/03/2026
Last successful page check
14/10/2026
Page health
healthy
Package
npm:worldbank-mcp
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