Search the World Bank indicator catalog API

Keyword search over the ~1,500 World Development Indicators, returning the indicator code, name, source and a trimmed definition for each match. Lets an agent discover the exact code to pass to the indicator/ranking endpoints. Answers 'what is the World Bank code for renewable energy', 'find indicators about poverty', 'which metric measures CO2 emissions'.

Price$0.01per request

MethodPOST

Route/v1/gov/worldbank-indicator-search

StatusLive

MIME typeapplication/json

Rate limit60/minute

Cache604800s public

govecon-dataworld-banksearchindicatorscatalogmetadatadiscovery

API URLhttps://x402.hexl.dev/v1/gov/worldbank-indicator-search

Integration docs

Example request

{
  "query": "renewable",
  "limit": 4
}

Example response

{
  "query": "renewable",
  "catalogSize": 1486,
  "matchCount": 4,
  "indicators": [
    {
      "code": "EG.ELC.RNEW.ZS",
      "name": "Renewable electricity output (% of total electricity output)",
      "unit": null,
      "source": "World Development Indicators",
      "note": "Renewable electricity is the share of electrity generated by renewable power plants in total electricity generated by all types of plants."
    },
    {
      "code": "EG.ELC.RNWX.KH",
      "name": "Electricity production from renewable sources, excluding hydroelectric (kWh)",
      "unit": null,
      "source": "World Development Indicators",
      "note": "Electricity production from renewable sources in kilowatt-hour (kWh), excluding hydroelectric, includes geothermal, solar, tides, wind, biomass, and biofuels."
    },
    {
      "code": "EG.ELC.RNWX.ZS",
      "name": "Electricity production from renewable sources, excluding hydroelectric (% of total)",
      "unit": null,
      "source": "World Development Indicators",
      "note": "The share of electricity production from renewable sources of total electricity production."
    },
    {
      "code": "EG.FEC.RNEW.ZS",
      "name": "Renewable energy consumption (% of total final energy consumption)",
      "unit": null,
      "source": "World Development Indicators",
      "note": "Renewable energy consumption is the share of renewable energy in total final energy consumption."
    }
  ]
}

Input schema

{
  "type": "object",
  "required": [
    "query"
  ],
  "properties": {
    "query": {
      "type": "string",
      "minLength": 2,
      "description": "Keyword to match against indicator id or name."
    },
    "limit": {
      "type": "integer",
      "minimum": 1,
      "maximum": 50,
      "default": 15
    }
  }
}

Output schema

{
  "type": "object",
  "additionalProperties": true
}