World Development Indicators’ API

Data - WDI

Author

Info

source	dataset	Title	.html	.rData
wdi	api	NA	NA	NA

List of APIs

source	dataset	Title	.html	.rData
bdf	api	NA	NA	NA
bea	api	NA	NA	NA
bis	api	NA	NA	NA
bls	api	NA	NA	NA
dbnomics	api	NA	NA	NA
ecb	api	NA	NA	NA
eurostat	api	NA	NA	NA
imf	api	NA	NA	NA
insee	api	NA	NA	NA
oecd	api	OECD's API	2024-05-07	2024-04-16
wdi	api	NA	NA	NA

Using SDMX-ML: Data Structure Definition

API: http://api.worldbank.org/v2/country/all/indicator/SP.POP.TOTL
Documentation: https://datahelpdesk.worldbank.org/knowledgebase/articles/889392-about-the-indicators-api-documentation
API Basic Call Structures: https://datahelpdesk.worldbank.org/knowledgebase/articles/898581
Date: 2000, 2001. http://api.worldbank.org/v2/country/all/indicator/SP.POP.TOTL?date=2000:2001
Code from R Package: https://rdrr.io/cran/WDI/src/R/WDI.R
Format JSON: https://datahelpdesk.worldbank.org/knowledgebase/articles/1886686-advanced-data-api-queries

LAST_COMPILE

LAST_COMPILE
2025-10-10

Javascript

Code

new <- "https://api.worldbank.org/v2/country/all/indicator/SP.POP.TOTL?format=json" %>%
  jsonlite::fromJSON() %>%
  pluck(2)

Example

Startperiod, endPeriod

Code

"http://api.worldbank.org/v2/sdmx/rest/data/WDI/A.SP_POP_TOTL./?startperiod=2011&endPeriod=2011" %>%
  readSDMX %>%
  as_tibble %>%
  print_table_conditional

Example

Code

"http://api.worldbank.org/v2/sdmx/rest/data/WDI/A.SP_POP_TOTL./?startperiod=2011&endPeriod=2011" %>%
  readSDMX %>%
  as_tibble %>%
  print_table_conditional