World Bank Development Indicators — 12 Core Series, All Countries, 1960–Present

DatasetCSV.GZOpenWorld BankWdiMacroDevelopmentGDPFree

136,446 country-year observations for 12 core World Development Indicators (GDP, GDP per capita, growth, inflation, population, unemployment, trade, government debt, life expectancy, internet use, energy use, FDI) for every country and aggregate the World Bank reports, 1960 to the latest available year, from the World Bank API as of 2026-09-05. Long format with indicator code and name on every row.

Use Cases

Country risk and macro factor models
Emerging-market screening
Per-capita normalisation of any country-level series

Methodology

World Bank API v2, all countries, one indicator per request with 20,000-row pages; null observations dropped.

Update Schedule

Static snapshot. WDI updates several times a year; refresh quarterly.

Attribution

Source: World Bank, World Development Indicators, CC BY 4.0.

Schema

name	type
indicator_code	string
indicator_name	string
country	string
country_code	string
year	integer
value	number

Sample Data

year	value	country	country_code	indicator_code	indicator_name
1986	0	Aruba	ABW	BX.KLT.DINV.WD.GD.ZS	Foreign direct investment, net inflows (% of GDP)
1987	0.223058133218786	Aruba	ABW	BX.KLT.DINV.WD.GD.ZS	Foreign direct investment, net inflows (% of GDP)
1988	2.05548592827715	Aruba	ABW	BX.KLT.DINV.WD.GD.ZS	Foreign direct investment, net inflows (% of GDP)
1989	0.186907630522088	Aruba	ABW	BX.KLT.DINV.WD.GD.ZS	Foreign direct investment, net inflows (% of GDP)
1990	17.063550036523	Aruba	ABW	BX.KLT.DINV.WD.GD.ZS	Foreign direct investment, net inflows (% of GDP)

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#    Cursor / Claude Code / others: mcp.json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "dagentbase": {
      "url": "https://dagentbase.com/api/mcp",
      "headers": { "Authorization": "Bearer dm_live_YOUR_KEY" }
    }
  }
}

# 2. Then ask your agent, in plain language:
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Details

Rows136,446

Size1.5 MB

Files1

FormatCSV.GZ

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