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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
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