World Bank Open Data (WDI)

Name: World Bank Open Data (WDI)
Creator: World Bank Open Data (WDI)
License: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

Open · redistributedCreative Commons Attribution 4.0 (CC BY 4.0)macro

Source: World Bank, World Development Indicators (CC BY 4.0)

Redistributable. This source is served as canonical Parquet under the license below, with attribution and provenance preserved.

Coverage

Series catalogued

692

Temporal coverage

1960-12-31 – 2025-12-31

Frequencies

Annual

Distinct geographies

263

Licensing & provenance

License: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 (CC BY 4.0)
License URL: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
Required attribution: Source: World Bank, World Development Indicators (CC BY 4.0)
Redistribution: Permitted (served here)
Commercial use: Yes
Modification: Permitted

How to cite

World Bank (World Development Indicators). Retrieved from https://data.worldbank.org. Compiled and redistributed by the Elkassabgi Data Library.

Processing: Retrieved from the official source, normalized to a long {series_key, obs_date, value} schema (period-start dates), de-duplicated, and stored as zstd Parquet. Compiled and redistributed by the Elkassabgi Data Library.

Access & mirrors

Download: Select & download worldbank series as CSV →
API: Get a free API key, then GET /v1/series/<id>.csv
Canonical landing: https://econdatalibrary.com/worldbank.html

Structured metadata

schema.org/Dataset (Google Dataset Search)

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Croissant (ML-ready, schema.org JSON-LD)

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Part of the Econ Data Library catalog · metadata generated 2026-07-14 from the central registry · browse all datasets