What you can ask
- “What does World Bank have for the area or asset I'm working on?”
- “Pull the most recent World Bank records and put them in a table.”
- “What does World Bank cover, and how fresh is the data?”
About this source
World Bank Open Data v2 country-indicator time series and searchable topic catalogs, with Energy & Mining topic 5 as the default.
Connector ID world-bank
Provenance
PublisherWorld Bank Open Data v2
API basehttps://api.worldbank.org/v2
Freshness & coverage
FreshnessScheduled — Publication cadence varies by indicator and country; use meta.lastUpdated on each response.
GeographicWorld Bank countries and aggregates
TemporalNot declared
AuthenticationNo credentials required
Caveats
- ⚠ Indicator availability and update cadence vary by indicator and country.
› Methods (3)
Technical detail for developers: parameters, pagination, units, and freshness per method.
getIndicator
readGet one indicator for one country or all countries, optionally bounded by year and page.
Required paramsindicatorEntitiesindicator-observationPaginationpage (pageField: page, limitField: perPage)FreshnessScheduled (source-level)- ⚠ A lone startYear or endYear is treated as a single-year query.
searchIndicators
readSearch indicator ids and names within a World Bank topic; defaults to Energy & Mining topic 5.
Entitiesindicator-definitionPaginationnoneFreshnessScheduled (source-level)getServiceInfo
readStatic API overview + curated high-value energy indicators
Entitiesservice-metadataPaginationnoneFreshnessScheduled (source-level)