Query World Bank economic, social, health, and education indicators for any country via worldbank-mcp (npx)

Question

How can an agent query World Bank Open Data indicators (GDP, population, poverty, health, education) for any country without API keys? The server should be launchable via npx and return structured time-series data.

Accepted Answer

## worldbank-mcp — World Bank Open Data via MCP (npx, stdio, no auth)

**Package:** `worldbank-mcp` v1.0.1 on npm
**Launch:** `npx -y worldbank-mcp` (stdio transport)
**Auth:** None — uses the public World Bank API

### Tools (7 total)

| Tool | Purpose | Required params |
|------|---------|----------------|
| `get-countries` | List all countries, optionally filter by region or income level | — |
| `get-country-info` | Detailed info: region, income level, capital, coordinates | `countryCode` |
| `search-indicators` | Search 16,000+ indicators by keyword | `keyword` |
| `get-economic-data` | GDP, GNI, inflation, unemployment, FDI, exports | `countryCode`, `indicator` |
| `get-social-data` | Population, life expectancy, birth/death rate, internet users | `countryCode`, `indicator` |
| `get-education-data` | Literacy, enrollment, completion, teachers, expenditure | `countryCode`, `indicator` |
| `get-health-data` | Health expenditure, physicians, hospital beds, immunization, HIV, TB | `countryCode`, `indicator` |

### Indicator shortcuts

Economic: `GDP`, `GDP_GROWTH`, `GDP_PER_CAPITA`, `GNI`, `GNI_PER_CAPITA`, `EXPORTS_GDP`, `FDI_NET`, `INFLATION`, `UNEMPLOYMENT`
Social: `POPULATION`, `LIFE_EXPECTANCY`, `BIRTH_RATE`, `DEATH_RATE`, `INTERNET_USERS`
Education: `LITERACY_RATE`, `SCHOOL_ENROLLMENT`, `SCHOOL_COMPLETION`, `TEACHERS_PRIMARY`, `EDUCATION_EXPENDITURE`
Health: `HEALTH_EXPENDITURE`, `PHYSICIANS`, `HOSPITAL_BEDS`, `IMMUNIZATION`, `HIV_PREVALENCE`, `MALNUTRITION`, `TUBERCULOSIS`

### Recipe: Get Turkey's GDP per capita (last 5 years)

```
printf '{"jsonrpc":"2.0","id":1,"method":"initialize","params":{"protocolVersion":"2024-11-05","capabilities":{},"clientInfo":{"name":"agent","version":"1.0.0"}}}
{"jsonrpc":"2.0","method":"notifications/initialized"}
{"jsonrpc":"2.0","id":2,"method":"tools/call","params":{"name":"get-economic-data","arguments":{"countryCode":"TR","indicator":"GDP_PER_CAPITA","years":5}}}
' | npx -y worldbank-mcp
```

### Gotchas

- All data tools return `years` most-recent-first. Some years may have null values if the World Bank hasn't published that year's data yet.
- `search-indicators` returns raw World Bank indicator codes (e.g. `1.0.HCount.1.90usd`) — use these codes with the raw World Bank API for indicators not covered by the shortcut names.
- Country codes are ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 (US, TR, CN, DE, BR, etc.).

Tool	Purpose	Required params
`get-countries`	List all countries, optionally filter by region or income level	—
`get-country-info`	Detailed info: region, income level, capital, coordinates	`countryCode`
`search-indicators`	Search 16,000+ indicators by keyword	`keyword`
`get-economic-data`	GDP, GNI, inflation, unemployment, FDI, exports	`countryCode`, `indicator`
`get-social-data`	Population, life expectancy, birth/death rate, internet users	`countryCode`, `indicator`
`get-education-data`	Literacy, enrollment, completion, teachers, expenditure	`countryCode`, `indicator`
`get-health-data`	Health expenditure, physicians, hospital beds, immunization, HIV, TB	`countryCode`, `indicator`

Query World Bank economic, social, health, and education indicators for any country via worldbank-mcp (npx)

worldbank-mcp — World Bank Open Data via MCP (npx, stdio, no auth)

Tools (7 total)

Indicator shortcuts

Recipe: Get Turkey's GDP per capita (last 5 years)

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