> ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://docs.usecroma.com/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # World Bank indicators > Development statistics for Latin America and the Caribbean: about 1,500 World Development Indicators for its 42 economies since 1960, from poverty and inequality to labor, education, health, income, financial inclusion and the macroeconomy, plus the World Bank's poverty and inequality estimates country by year. The World Bank publishes the World Development Indicators, its collection of cross-country development statistics, and the Poverty and Inequality Platform, its poverty and inequality estimates from household surveys. Croma keeps every WDI value for the 42 economies of Latin America and the Caribbean since 1960, about 1.3 million values over some 1,500 indicators, and every poverty and inequality estimate the platform publishes, and brings them up to date monthly after each World Bank release. Find an indicator first, by words or by topic, then read its values by country and year. The poverty endpoint answers the share of people below the international poverty lines, the Gini index and the welfare distribution, with the survey behind each figure. Values cover the 42 economies of Latin America and the Caribbean as the World Bank groups them, from 1960. The poverty estimates cover every country the World Bank reports on. Figures can differ from national statistics offices and from other international sources, because the welfare measures and adjustments differ: cite the World Bank next to every figure. The whole source, organized and ready to query: every endpoint on this page answers in milliseconds. Every response carries `as_of`: how current the data is. [How datasets work](/datasets). ## Search indicators `POST /global/world-bank/indicators-search/v1` Dataset Find the code of the indicator you need, by words or by topic. | Field | Type | Notes | | - | - | - | | `query` | string | Optional words in the indicator's name or definition, e.g. `gini`, `youth unemployment`. Every word must appear. | | `topic` | enum | Optional topic, e.g. `poverty`, `education`, `health`, `social_protection_labor`, `financial_sector`, `economy`, `gender`. | | `page` | integer | 1-based page number. Default `1`. | | `per_page` | integer | Results per page (1-200). Default `50`. | ```bash theme={"dark"} curl https://api.croma.run/global/world-bank/indicators-search/v1 \ -H "Authorization: Bearer $CROMA_API_KEY" \ -H "Content-Type: application/json" \ -d '{ "query": "gini", "topic": "poverty" }' ``` Returns `as_of` (how current the data is), the applied filters, `total` and `total_is_exact`, `page`, `per_page`, `total_pages`, `count` and `results[]`, by code. Every indicator carries `indicator_code` (what the values endpoint takes), `indicator` (its name), `unit` (as the name states it, e.g. `% of GDP`; null when it states none), `topics[]`, `source_note` (the World Bank's definition) and `source_organization` (who produces the data). ## Indicator values `POST /global/world-bank/indicator-values/v1` Dataset Values by indicator, country and year. Leave `country_code` empty to compare every economy in the region. | Field | Type | Notes | | - | - | - | | `indicator_code` | string | Optional indicator code, e.g. `SI.POV.GINI` (Gini index), `SL.UEM.TOTL.ZS` (unemployment), `NY.GDP.PCAP.CD` (GDP per capita). | | `country_code` | string | Optional three-letter ISO 3166-1 code, e.g. `COL`, `BRA`, `MEX`. | | `year` | integer | Optional single year, e.g. `2024`. Default `0`. | | `year_from` | integer | Optional first year of a range. Default `0`. | | `year_to` | integer | Optional last year of a range. Default `0`. | | `page` | integer | 1-based page number. Default `1`. | | `per_page` | integer | Results per page (1-200). Default `50`. | ```bash theme={"dark"} curl https://api.croma.run/global/world-bank/indicator-values/v1 \ -H "Authorization: Bearer $CROMA_API_KEY" \ -H "Content-Type: application/json" \ -d '{ "indicator_code": "SI.POV.GINI", "country_code": "COL", "year_from": 2015 }' ``` Returns `as_of`, the applied filters, `indicator`, `total` and `total_is_exact`, `page`, `per_page`, `total_pages`, `count` and `results[]`. Every value carries `id` (country, indicator and year), `country_code` (ISO 3166-1, three letters), `country`, `indicator_code`, `indicator`, `unit`, `year`, `value`, `decimals` (how many the World Bank shows) and `obs_status` (the World Bank's flag for an estimate, when it sets one). Years without a value are not listed. Ordered by indicator, country and year, newest first. With `indicator_code`, `indicator` carries its definition. ## Poverty and inequality `POST /global/world-bank/poverty/v1` Dataset One row per country, year, coverage and welfare measure. Compare years only within one `comparable_spell`. | Field | Type | Notes | | - | - | - | | `country_code` | string | Optional three-letter ISO 3166-1 code, e.g. `COL`, `BRA`, `MEX`. | | `year` | integer | Optional single year, e.g. `2024`. Default `0`. | | `year_from` | integer | Optional first year of a range. Default `0`. | | `year_to` | integer | Optional last year of a range. Default `0`. | | `reporting_level` | enum | Optional coverage: `national`, `urban` or `rural`. Argentina is covered by urban surveys only, so leave it empty to see every country. | | `welfare_type` | enum | Optional welfare measure: `income` (most of Latin America) or `consumption`. | | `page` | integer | 1-based page number. Default `1`. | | `per_page` | integer | Results per page (1-200). Default `50`. | ```bash theme={"dark"} curl https://api.croma.run/global/world-bank/poverty/v1 \ -H "Authorization: Bearer $CROMA_API_KEY" \ -H "Content-Type: application/json" \ -d '{ "country_code": "COL", "year_from": 2015 }' ``` Returns `as_of`, the applied filters, `total` and `total_is_exact`, `page`, `per_page`, `total_pages`, `count` and `results[]`. Every estimate carries `id` (country, year, coverage and welfare measure), `country_code`, `country`, `region_code`, `year`, `survey_year`, `survey_acronym`, `survey_coverage`, `reporting_level`, `welfare_type`, `comparable_spell` (compare years only within one), `headcount_300`, `headcount_420` and `headcount_830` (the share of people below $3.00, $4.20 and \$8.30 a day, 2021 PPP, from 0 to 1), `poverty_gap_300`, `poverty_gap_420`, `poverty_gap_830`, `gini` (0 to 1), `mean` and `median` (2021 PPP dollars a day per person), `mld`, `polarization`, `deciles[]` (each tenth's share of welfare, poorest first), `societal_poverty_line`, `population`, `is_interpolated`, `estimation_type` and `distribution_type`. Ordered by country and year, newest first. Source: World Bank, World Development Indicators and Poverty and Inequality Platform, under CC BY 4.0. Croma reshapes the data into the fields above; the World Bank does not endorse this service. 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