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World Bank

Development indicators for every country on Earth

🔭 Science & SpaceUNMONITORED
AUTH NONECORS ✓AGENT ?HTTPS ✓COMMERCIAL ✓

The World Bank's open data API serves thousands of development indicators — GDP, population, health, education — across countries and decades. Endpoints return paginated JSON with a metadata header followed by the data array. Free, keyless, and released under CC BY 4.0.

—HOW IT'S SCORED ⓘ
▶ Run liveDocs ↗
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ON PROBE SCHEDULE

We probe a documented GET and expect 2xx JSON — full uptime and health score. Open provider docs ↗

Uptime historystarts after first probe

On our probe schedule. Uptime charts appear after the first check lands.

Example responsefrom provider docs — not verified by us
GET https://api.worldbank.org/v2/country/US?format=json

[
  {
    "page": 1,
    "pages": 1,
    "per_page": "50",
    "total": 1
  },
  [
    {
      "id": "USA",
      "iso2Code": "US",
      "name": "United States",
      "region": {
        "value": "North America"
      },
      "incomeLevel": {
        "value": "High income"
      },
      "capitalCity": "Washington D.C.",
      "longitude": "-77.032",
      "latitude": "38.8895"
    }
  ]
]
Call itcurl · fetch · python
curl "https://api.worldbank.org/v2/country/US?format=json"
const res = await fetch("https://api.worldbank.org/v2/country/US?format=json");
const data = await res.json();
console.log(data);
import requests

res = requests.get("https://api.worldbank.org/v2/country/US?format=json")
print(res.json())
Endpoints · 6On scheduleFULL DOCS ↗
On schedule — GET /country/US?format=json awaits first probe
GET/country/US?format=jsonPROBED

Development indicators for every country on Earth

GET/country

Country — documented GET route.

GET/country/1

Country details by ID (example: 1).

GET/country?limit=10

Country — documented GET route.

GET/country/search?q=test

Search by query parameters.

GET/country/US?limit=5

US — documented GET route.

Machine-readable spec

We probe a documented GET and expect 2xx JSON — full uptime and health score. Export includes every documented route below.

Response-shape history

Not tracked yet. Shape-change history starts once this API joins our probe schedule.

World Bank: common questions

Is World Bank free to use?

Yes — World Bank is a free science & space API. Free tier: Free — no API key required. Commercial use is allowed on the free tier.

Does World Bank need an API key?

No — World Bank needs no API key or signup. You can call it straight away; rate limits still apply (Unpublished).

Can I call World Bank from the browser?

Yes — World Bank returns CORS headers over HTTPS, so front-end code can fetch it directly with no backend proxy. Use the fetch snippet on this page, or hit "Run live" to try it now.

Is World Bank up right now?

World Bank is catalogued but not yet on our probe schedule, so we don't publish a live status for it. Check the provider's own status page or docs for its current state.