World Bank MCP Server

A Model Context Protocol (MCP) server that enables interaction with the open World Bank data API. This server allows AI assistants to list indicators

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What is the World Bank MCP server?

World Bank MCP server exists for a simple reason — assistants are far more useful when they can act on World Bank directly instead of describing what you should do. 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.

What you get

  • 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

Setting it up

Installation goes through your MCP client rather than a global install: point it at @smithery/cli on npm and it is fetched when the client starts. The copy-paste blocks for Claude Desktop, Claude Code and Cursor are further down this page.

Before you rely on it

  • It runs with your machine's permissions. That is convenient and also the reason to think about what you point it at before you approve a tool call.
  • MCP clients confirm each tool call by default. Leave that on until you have watched what the world bank mcp server does with a few real requests.

Choosing this one

Among the developer tooling options, the useful question is rarely "what can it do" but "what does it cost you to run" — permissions, credentials, and how much of your context its toolset consumes. It is maintained by anshumax; worth a glance at recent repository activity before you build anything load-bearing on it.

SyncDev reviews every entry in this directory against the project's own documentation before publishing, and revisits them as servers change.

How to install the World Bank MCP server

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

Configuration as documented by the project. Restart the client after saving.

Frequently asked questions

It connects World Bank to MCP-compatible AI assistants such as Claude and Cursor. Instead of copying data back and forth by hand, the assistant works with World Bank directly.