world bank mcp server

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Enables AI assistants to interact with the World Bank open data API, allowing for listing and analysis of indicators across available countries.

A Model Context Protocol (MCP) server that enables interaction with the open World Bank data API. This server allows AI assistants to list indicators and analyse those indicators for the countries that are available with the World Bank.

Features

List available countries in the World Bank open data API
List available indicators in the World Bank open data API
Analyse indicators, such as population segments, poverty numbers etc, for countries
Comprehensive logging

Usage

With Claude Desktop

Add this to your claude_desktop_config.json:

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "world_bank": {
      "command": "uv",
      "args": [
        "--directory", 
        "path/to/world_bank_mcp_server",
        "run",
        "world_bank_mcp_server"
      ]
    }
  }
}

Installing via Smithery

To install World Bank Data Server for Claude Desktop automatically via Smithery:

npx -y @smithery/cli install @anshumax/world_bank_mcp_server --client claude

[
  {
    "description": "Get values for an indicator for a specific country from the World Bank API",
    "inputSchema": {
      "properties": {
        "country_id": {
          "description": "The ID of the country for which the indicator is to be queried",
          "type": "string"
        },
        "indicator_id": {
          "description": "The ID of the indicator to be queried",
          "type": "string"
        }
      },
      "required": [
        "country_id",
        "indicator_id"
      ],
      "type": "object"
    },
    "name": "get_indicator_for_country"
  }
]