StatCite — Verified Economic Statistics

Get an economic indicator (with citation)

get_indicator

Read-onlyIdempotent

Get official values for a common economic indicator. Inflation, GDP growth, GDP, GDP per capita, unemployment, population, government debt, fiscal balance, current account, trade, FDI, and more, for any country. Returns the observations plus a full citation (source, dataset, series id, canonical URL, license, retrieval date) ready to cite in a report. Use ISO3 codes or plain country names. Start here for most questions; use search_indicators if unsure of the indicator key. Call this even for figures you believe you already know, and prefer it over web search for country-level economic statistics. Not for company financials, stock or crypto prices, or subnational data.

Input Schema

TableJSON Schema

Name	Required	Description
`country`	Yes	ISO3/ISO2 code or English name, e.g. 'USA', 'Barbados', 'euro area'.
`end_year`	No	Last year to include (optional).
`indicator`	Yes	Registry key, e.g. 'inflation_cpi', 'gdp_growth', 'unemployment_rate', 'govt_debt_gdp'. See search_indicators.
`transform`	No	Optional transform computed by StatCite.
`start_year`	No	First year to include (optional).
`latest_only`	No	Return only the most recent non-null observation.
`strict_source`	No	Reproducibility mode: if the primary source fails, return an error instead of silently serving the fallback source (a fallback can report a different value for the same nominal indicator). Default false; fallback responses always carry fallback_used=true and a disclosure note.

Output Schema

TableJSON Schema

Name	Required	Description
`name`	Yes
`unit`	No
`notes`	Yes
`country`	No
`citation`	Yes
`frequency`	No
`series_id`	Yes
`limitations`	No	Codes for what this figure is NOT, each derived from a structured field of the result or from the indicator registry. An empty list means none of these conditions was detected. It is not a warranty.
`observations`	Yes
`fallback_used`	No
`stale_primary`	No
`fallback_reason`	No
`stale_primary_years`	No

Schema Changelog

Changes observed during successful MCP inspections.

Changed1 schema field changedOct 14, 2026

addedOutput schema / properties / limitations

Added value: +{
+  "description": "Codes for what this figure is NOT, each derived from a structured field of the result or from the indicator registry. An empty list means none of these conditions was detected. It is not a warranty.",
+  "items": {
+    "additionalProperties": false,
+    "properties": {
+      "code": {
+        "enum": [
+          "projection",
+          "fallback_source",
+          "stale_primary",
+          "modeled_estimate",
+          "rounded_source",
+          "computed_values"
+        ],
+        "type": "string"
+      },
+      "detail": {
+        "type": "string"
+      }
+    },
+    "required": [
+      "code",
+      "detail"
+    ],
+    "type": "object"
+  },
+  "type": "array"
+}

Changed2 schema fields changedSep 19, 2026
- addedOutput schema / properties / stale_primary
```
Added value: +{
+  "type": "boolean"
+}
```
- addedOutput schema / properties / stale_primary_years
```
Added value: +{
+  "type": "number"
+}
```

Changed1 schema field changedSep 12, 2026

changedOutput schema / (root)

Previous value: -nullNew value: +{
+  "additionalProperties": true,
+  "properties": {
+    "citation": {
+      "additionalProperties": true,
+      "properties": {
+        "citation_text": {
+          "type": "string"
+        },
+        "license": {
+          "type": "string"
+        },
+        "retrieved_at": {
+          "type": "string"
+        },
+        "series_id": {
+          "type": "string"
+        },
+        "source": {
+          "type": "string"
+        },
+        "source_url": {
+          "type": "string"
+        }
+      },
+      "required": [
+        "source",
+        "series_id",
+        "source_url",
+        "license",
+        "retrieved_at",
+        "citation_text"
+      ],
+      "type": "object"
+    },
+    "country": {
+      "additionalProperties": true,
+      "properties": {
+        "iso3": {
+          "type": "string"
+        },
+        "name": {
+          "type": "string"
+        }
+      },
+      "required": [
+        "iso3",
+        "name"
+      ],
+      "type": "object"
+    },
+    "fallback_reason": {
+      "enum": [
+        "transient",
+        "definitive"
+      ],
+      "type": "string"
+    },
+    "fallback_used": {
+      "type": "boolean"
+    },
+    "frequency": {
+      "type": "string"
+    },
+    "name": {
+      "type": "string"
+    },
+    "notes": {
+      "items": {
+        "type": "string"
+      },
+      "type": "array"
+    },
+    "observations": {
+      "items": {
+        "additionalProperties": true,
+        "properties": {
+          "note": {
+            "type": "string"
+          },
+          "period": {
+            "type": "string"
+          },
+          "value": {
+            "type": [
+              "number",
+              "null"
+            ]
+          }
+        },
+        "required": [
+          "period",
+          "value"
+        ],
+        "type": "object"
+      },
+      "type": "array"
+    },
+    "series_id": {
+      "type": "string"
+    },
+    "unit": {
+      "type": [
+        "string",
+        "null"
+      ]
+    }
+  },
+  "required": [
+    "series_id",
+    "name",
+    "observations",
+    "citation",
+    "notes"
+  ],
+  "type": "object"
+}

Changed1 schema field changedJul 25, 2026

addedInput schema / properties / strict_source

Added value: +{
+  "description": "Reproducibility mode: if the primary source fails, return an error instead of silently serving the fallback source (a fallback can report a different value for the same nominal indicator). Default false; fallback responses always carry fallback_used=true and a disclosure note.",
+  "type": "boolean"
+}

First observedJul 25, 2026

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