World Bank MCP

This community MCP server enables AI agents to query the World Bank Open Data platform, accessing over 29,500 development indicators for more than 200 countries spanning 60+ years. It supports listing topics, sources, and countries, searching and fetching indicator metadata, retrieving time-series data, accessing poverty metrics from the Poverty and Inequality Platform, and searching the World Bank's lending portfolio projects. No API key is required.

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What you can do with it

Query country time series for specific development indicators
Search the World Bank lending portfolio by text or status
Fetch poverty headcount and Gini coefficient metrics
List all thematic topics and data sources available

Source and maintenance

Community listingRegistry 0.5.4

mcp-registry: io.github.cyanheads/worldbank-mcp-server@0.5.4 Source repository

Maintenance checked: Oct 31, 2026, 10:27 PM UTC

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@cyanheads/worldbank-mcp-server 0.5.4

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@cyanheads/worldbank-mcp-server package definition

{
  "version": "0.5.4",
  "transport": "stdio",
  "identifier": "@cyanheads/worldbank-mcp-server",
  "runtimeHint": "npx",
  "registryType": "npm",
  "registryBaseUrl": "https://registry.npmjs.org",
  "environmentVariables": [
    {
      "name": "MCP_LOG_LEVEL",
      "format": "string",
      "default": "info",
      "description": "Minimum log level for output: 'debug', 'info', 'notice', 'warning', 'error'."
    },
    {
      "name": "WORLDBANK_API_BASE_URL",
      "format": "string",
      "default": "https://api.worldbank.org/v2",
      "description": "World Bank API base URL override."
    },
    {
      "name": "WORLDBANK_PIP_BASE_URL",
      "format": "string",
      "default": "https://api.worldbank.org/pip/v1",
      "description": "World Bank Poverty and Inequality Platform (PIP) API base URL override."
    },
    {
      "name": "WORLDBANK_PROJECTS_BASE_URL",
      "format": "string",
      "default": "https://search.worldbank.org/api/v3",
      "description": "World Bank Projects API base URL override."
    },
    {
      "name": "WORLDBANK_DEFAULT_PER_PAGE",
      "format": "string",
      "default": "50",
      "description": "Default page size for list, search, and data operations."
    },
    {
      "name": "WORLDBANK_CATALOG_CACHE_TTL_MS",
      "format": "string",
      "default": "3600000",
      "description": "Lifetime in ms of the in-process reference caches: the indicator catalog behind keyword-only search, the country index behind isAggregate, source-scoped country codes, and poverty ISO2 codes, each source-scoped dataset's concept, country, period, and dimension listings, and PIP's versions listing behind ppp_version, regions table behind aggregate codes, and economy list behind model-estimate-only economies. 0 disables caching."
    }
  ]
}

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Cursor

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Cursor configuration

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "world-bank-mcp": {
      "command": "npx",
      "args": [
        "-y",
        "@cyanheads/worldbank-mcp-server@0.5.4"
      ],
      "env": {
        "MCP_LOG_LEVEL": "<YOUR_MCP_LOG_LEVEL>",
        "WORLDBANK_API_BASE_URL": "<YOUR_WORLDBANK_API_BASE_URL>",
        "WORLDBANK_PIP_BASE_URL": "<YOUR_WORLDBANK_PIP_BASE_URL>",
        "WORLDBANK_PROJECTS_BASE_URL": "<YOUR_WORLDBANK_PROJECTS_BASE_URL>",
        "WORLDBANK_DEFAULT_PER_PAGE": "<YOUR_WORLDBANK_DEFAULT_PER_PAGE>",
        "WORLDBANK_CATALOG_CACHE_TTL_MS": "<YOUR_WORLDBANK_CATALOG_CACHE_TTL_MS>"
      }
    }
  }
}

Cline

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Cline configuration

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "world-bank-mcp": {
      "command": "npx",
      "args": [
        "-y",
        "@cyanheads/worldbank-mcp-server@0.5.4"
      ],
      "env": {
        "MCP_LOG_LEVEL": "<YOUR_MCP_LOG_LEVEL>",
        "WORLDBANK_API_BASE_URL": "<YOUR_WORLDBANK_API_BASE_URL>",
        "WORLDBANK_PIP_BASE_URL": "<YOUR_WORLDBANK_PIP_BASE_URL>",
        "WORLDBANK_PROJECTS_BASE_URL": "<YOUR_WORLDBANK_PROJECTS_BASE_URL>",
        "WORLDBANK_DEFAULT_PER_PAGE": "<YOUR_WORLDBANK_DEFAULT_PER_PAGE>",
        "WORLDBANK_CATALOG_CACHE_TTL_MS": "<YOUR_WORLDBANK_CATALOG_CACHE_TTL_MS>"
      }
    }
  }
}

VS Code

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VS Code configuration

{
  "servers": {
    "world-bank-mcp": {
      "type": "stdio",
      "command": "npx",
      "args": [
        "-y",
        "@cyanheads/worldbank-mcp-server@0.5.4"
      ],
      "env": {
        "MCP_LOG_LEVEL": "<YOUR_MCP_LOG_LEVEL>",
        "WORLDBANK_API_BASE_URL": "<YOUR_WORLDBANK_API_BASE_URL>",
        "WORLDBANK_PIP_BASE_URL": "<YOUR_WORLDBANK_PIP_BASE_URL>",
        "WORLDBANK_PROJECTS_BASE_URL": "<YOUR_WORLDBANK_PROJECTS_BASE_URL>",
        "WORLDBANK_DEFAULT_PER_PAGE": "<YOUR_WORLDBANK_DEFAULT_PER_PAGE>",
        "WORLDBANK_CATALOG_CACHE_TTL_MS": "<YOUR_WORLDBANK_CATALOG_CACHE_TTL_MS>"
      }
    }
  }
}

Claude Desktop

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Claude Desktop configuration

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "world-bank-mcp": {
      "command": "npx",
      "args": [
        "-y",
        "@cyanheads/worldbank-mcp-server@0.5.4"
      ],
      "env": {
        "MCP_LOG_LEVEL": "<YOUR_MCP_LOG_LEVEL>",
        "WORLDBANK_API_BASE_URL": "<YOUR_WORLDBANK_API_BASE_URL>",
        "WORLDBANK_PIP_BASE_URL": "<YOUR_WORLDBANK_PIP_BASE_URL>",
        "WORLDBANK_PROJECTS_BASE_URL": "<YOUR_WORLDBANK_PROJECTS_BASE_URL>",
        "WORLDBANK_DEFAULT_PER_PAGE": "<YOUR_WORLDBANK_DEFAULT_PER_PAGE>",
        "WORLDBANK_CATALOG_CACHE_TTL_MS": "<YOUR_WORLDBANK_CATALOG_CACHE_TTL_MS>"
      }
    }
  }
}

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