aid: worldbank name: World Bank description: >- World Bank open data platform providing REST APIs for accessing global development data including GDP, poverty indicators, health metrics, education statistics, country profiles, financial data, climate information, and project operations. All data is freely available under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 licensing with no authentication required for most endpoints. image: https://kinlane-productions.s3.amazonaws.com/apis-json/apis-json-logo.jpg url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/worldbank/refs/heads/main/apis.yml created: '2026-06-13' modified: '2026-06-13' specificationVersion: '0.19' tags: - Development Data - Global Economics - GDP - Poverty - Health Metrics - Education - Climate - Finance - World Bank - Open Data - Country Data - Indicators apis: - aid: worldbank-indicators name: World Bank Indicators API description: >- Provides programmatic access to nearly 16,000 time series development indicators including GDP, poverty rates, health metrics, education statistics, and demographic data across countries and regions. Supports filtering by date range, country, region, income level, and lending type. Returns data in XML, JSON, JSONP, and JSON-stat formats. image: https://kinlane-productions.s3.amazonaws.com/apis-json/apis-json-logo.jpg humanURL: https://datahelpdesk.worldbank.org/knowledgebase/articles/889386-developer-information-overview baseURL: https://api.worldbank.org/v2 tags: - Indicators - Time Series - Development Data - GDP - Poverty - Health - Education properties: - type: Documentation url: https://datahelpdesk.worldbank.org/knowledgebase/articles/898581-api-basic-call-structures - type: OpenAPI url: https://api.worldbank.org/v2 contact: - FN: World Bank Data Help Desk url: https://datahelpdesk.worldbank.org email: data@worldbank.org - aid: worldbank-data-catalog name: World Bank Data Catalog API description: >- Provides information about thousands of development-relevant datasets available through the World Bank Data Catalog. Supports searching, listing, viewing dataset metadata, and downloading resource files. Supports OData-style query parameters for filtering, sorting, and pagination with up to 100 records per request. image: https://kinlane-productions.s3.amazonaws.com/apis-json/apis-json-logo.jpg humanURL: https://datahelpdesk.worldbank.org/knowledgebase/articles/1886698-data-catalog-api baseURL: https://datacatalogapi.worldbank.org tags: - Data Catalog - Datasets - Metadata - Development Data properties: - type: Documentation url: https://datahelpdesk.worldbank.org/knowledgebase/articles/1886698-data-catalog-api contact: - FN: World Bank Data Help Desk url: https://datahelpdesk.worldbank.org email: data@worldbank.org - aid: worldbank-projects name: World Bank Projects API description: >- Provides access to World Bank operations data including active, pipeline, and closed projects. Returns project details including financial commitments, status, country classification, themes, and team information across IBRD and IDA lending operations worldwide. image: https://kinlane-productions.s3.amazonaws.com/apis-json/apis-json-logo.jpg humanURL: https://datahelpdesk.worldbank.org/knowledgebase/articles/889386-developer-information-overview baseURL: https://search.worldbank.org/api/v2/projects tags: - Projects - Operations - Loans - Development Finance properties: - type: Documentation url: https://datahelpdesk.worldbank.org/knowledgebase/articles/889386-developer-information-overview contact: - FN: World Bank Data Help Desk url: https://datahelpdesk.worldbank.org email: data@worldbank.org - aid: worldbank-finances name: World Bank Finances API description: >- Provides programmatic access to World Bank financial data including loans, credits, trust funds, budget data, and financial statements. Delivered through the Finances One platform with support for JSON and CSV output. Maximum 1,000 records per request with pagination support. image: https://kinlane-productions.s3.amazonaws.com/apis-json/apis-json-logo.jpg humanURL: https://financesone.worldbank.org/api-explorer baseURL: https://datacatalogapi.worldbank.org/dexapps/fone/api tags: - Finance - Loans - Credits - Budget - Financial Statements properties: - type: Documentation url: https://financesone.worldbank.org/api-explorer contact: - FN: World Bank Finances url: https://financesone.worldbank.org email: data@worldbank.org - aid: worldbank-sdmx name: World Bank SDMX API description: >- Provides access to World Bank development data in SDMX (Statistical Data and Metadata eXchange) format, the international standard for statistical data sharing. Supports World Development Indicators (WDI) dataset with annual data from 1960 onwards. Limited to 15,000 data points per call. Supports SDMX-ML 2.1 and JSON response formats. image: https://kinlane-productions.s3.amazonaws.com/apis-json/apis-json-logo.jpg humanURL: https://datahelpdesk.worldbank.org/knowledgebase/articles/1886701-sdmx-api-queries baseURL: https://api.worldbank.org/v2/sdmx/rest tags: - SDMX - World Development Indicators - Statistics - International Standards properties: - type: Documentation url: https://datahelpdesk.worldbank.org/knowledgebase/articles/1886701-sdmx-api-queries contact: - FN: World Bank Data Help Desk url: https://datahelpdesk.worldbank.org email: data@worldbank.org common: - type: Website url: https://data.worldbank.org - type: Documentation url: https://datahelpdesk.worldbank.org/knowledgebase/articles/889386-developer-information-overview - type: GitHubOrg url: https://github.com/worldbank - type: LinkedIn url: https://linkedin.com/showcase/world-bank-development-economics - type: Blog url: https://blogs.worldbank.org/opendata - type: Pricing url: https://www.worldbank.org/en/about/legal/terms-of-use-for-datasets - type: X url: https://x.com/worldbankdata - type: Plans url: plans/worldbank-plans-pricing.yml - type: RateLimits url: rate-limits/worldbank-rate-limits.yml - type: FinOps url: finops/worldbank-finops.yml maintainers: - FN: Kin Lane email: kin@apievangelist.com