What problem does it solve?
Provide fast, programmatic access to World Bank economic indicators, governance scores, and development metrics so analysts can perform country-level macro, sovereign risk, and ESG research without manual data wrangling.
Core Features & Use Cases
- Rich indicator coverage: Access 16,000+ World Bank indicators including GDP, inflation, debt, trade, demographics, and specialized development metrics.
- Governance & trend analysis: Retrieve World Governance Indicators with estimates and percentile ranks for corruption, rule of law, regulatory quality, stability, voice/accountability, and government effectiveness.
- Comparisons & snapshots: Pull time series for single countries, compare one indicator across multiple countries, or request a 10-indicator macro snapshot for rapid country assessments; ideal for sovereign credit analysis, cross-country benchmarking, and ESG screening.
Quick Start
Ask the data-wb skill to fetch GDP and inflation time series for Brazil from 2010 to 2023.