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World Bank

Country profiles, World Development Indicators and poverty data for 200+ economies.

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About this source

Search 16,000+ indicators (GDP, population, health, education, energy, trade), fetch time series by country and year, browse topics and sources, and query poverty and inequality data. Values carry the indicator id and source so they can be cited.

Questions you can ask World Bank

Type them into Kahubi’s chat once the source is connected.

Compare an indicator across three countries over ten years, naming the dataset and unit.

What comes back: Values with dataset codes, units and time coverage.

What the assistant can do with it

The 9 tools this server offers to Kahubi. The assistant picks the right one for each question.

  • worldbank_list_topics

    List all 21 World Bank thematic topics (Economy & Growth, Health, Education, and others) with descriptions.

  • worldbank_list_sources

    List the 70+ World Bank data sources (datasets), such as World Development Indicators, International Debt Statistics, and Doing Business.

  • worldbank_list_countries

    List countries and regional aggregates with metadata: ISO codes, region, income level, capital, and coordinates.

  • worldbank_get_country

    Fetch metadata for one country or aggregate entity: ISO codes, region, income level, lending type, capital, and coordinates.

  • worldbank_search_indicators

    Search the 29,500+ World Bank indicator catalog by keyword, topic, or source, returning indicator IDs and metadata for worldbank_get_data.

  • worldbank_get_indicator

    Fetch metadata for one World Bank indicator by ID: name, description, unit, source dataset, source organization, and thematic topics.

  • worldbank_get_data

    Query World Bank indicator values for one or more countries across a time range - the primary data-access tool; find indicator_id values with worldbank_search_indicators.

  • worldbank_get_poverty

    Query poverty and inequality estimates from the World Bank Poverty and Inequality Platform (PIP) for one or more countries.

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  • worldbank_search_projects

    Search the World Bank lending portfolio - the individual loans, credits, and grants the Bank finances - by free text, country, region, status, and board approval date.

Good to know

  • Community server. An open-source server maintained by the MCP community. Kahubi tests it with live queries before listing it and health-checks it regularly.
  • Cited, checkable answers. Results are treated as retrieved material and cited with the source’s own identifiers, so you can open every record the answer relied on.
  • Your files stay private. Only the search the assistant writes for your question is sent to World Bank.

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