StatCite

Official economic statistics with full citations — World Bank, IMF WEO, ECB.

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What it can do

  • Get Indicator: 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,
  • Verify Stat: Check a claimed economic figure (from a draft, article, or memory) against the official statistical series and get a verdict: match, close, mismatch, or cannot_verify — with the official
  • Get Series: Fetch any supported series by explicit id: 'worldbank/<WDI code>' (needs country), 'fred/<SERIES>' (US, needs server FRED key), or 'dbnomics/<PROVIDER>/<DATASET>/<SERIES>' (IMF WEO, OECD,

What data it sees

Do you need an account

No: the server works without sign-in

Official economic statistics with full citations — World Bank, IMF WEO, ECB. Every number ships source, dataset, series ID, license, and retrieval date. Plus verify_stat: check a claimed figure against the official series and get a match/close/mismatch verdict with diagnostics. Free, no auth, no API key.

How to connect

How to connect StatCite to Claude

The server address to paste into Claude settings:

https://statcite--asokore-beckles.run.tools

  1. Open Claude (claude.ai or the desktop app).
  2. Go to Settings → Connectors.
  3. Click Add custom connector.
  4. Paste the server address copied below into Remote MCP server URL and click Add.
  5. In a chat, click + → Connectors and switch the new connector on.

Custom connectors are available on Free, Pro, Max, Team and Enterprise plans (Free is limited to one). On Team and Enterprise an organization Owner adds the connector first under Organization settings → Connectors.

Authorization

After you click Add, a sign-in window for the service opens. Sign in with your own account and approve access. Claude never sees your password.

How to connect StatCite to ChatGPT

The server address to paste into ChatGPT settings:

https://statcite--asokore-beckles.run.tools

  1. Open ChatGPT in a browser (chatgpt.com). A Plus, Pro, Business, Enterprise or Edu plan is required.
  2. Turn on developer mode once: Settings → Apps → Advanced settings → Developer mode.
  3. Open Settings → Connectors and click Create.
  4. Fill in the form: Name (anything), Description (one line about what the service does), MCP server URL (copy it below).
  5. Under Authentication choose OAuth if the service requires sign-in, otherwise None. Click Create.
  6. In a new chat open + → Apps/Connectors and enable the connector.

OpenAI has renamed this section before (Connectors → Apps/Plugins). If the label differs, search settings for "developer mode". On Business/Enterprise workspaces an admin must allow custom connectors first.

Authorization

On first use ChatGPT opens the service's sign-in window. Sign in and approve access.

How to connect StatCite to Cursor

The server address to paste into Cursor settings:

https://statcite--asokore-beckles.run.tools

Fastest: click Open in Cursor below and confirm the prompt.

Manually:

  1. In Cursor open Settings → Cursor Settings → MCP and click Add new global MCP server.
  2. Paste the JSON copied below into ~/.cursor/mcp.json (per project: .cursor/mcp.json in the repo root).
  3. Save the file. The server appears in the MCP list; authorize it there if asked.

Authorization

If the service needs sign-in, an authorize button appears next to the server in the MCP list.

Server tool list (10)

Raw names from tools/list. Only developers need these.

get_indicatorGet 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.
verify_statCheck a claimed economic figure (from a draft, article, or memory) against the official statistical series and get a verdict: match, close, mismatch, or cannot_verify — with the official value, the difference, diagnostics for classic errors (wrong year, percent-vs-decimal, unit scaling), and a full citation for the correct number. Use this before publishing any economic statistic in a report, brief, or article.
get_seriesFetch any supported series by explicit id: 'worldbank/<WDI code>' (needs country), 'fred/<SERIES>' (US, needs server FRED key), or 'dbnomics/<PROVIDER>/<DATASET>/<SERIES>' (IMF WEO, OECD, Eurostat and more via DBnomics). Supports year filters and transforms (yoy, pct_change, index). Every response carries a full citation. Prefer get_indicator for common indicators.
search_indicatorsSearch StatCite's curated indicator registry (World Bank WDI + IMF WEO + FRED) by topic — 'inflation', 'debt', 'unemployment', 'poverty' — and discover additional DBnomics datasets. Returns indicator keys usable with get_indicator/verify_stat, with units and source notes.
country_snapshotOne call for a country's headline economic picture: GDP, GDP growth, GDP per capita, inflation, unemployment, population, current account, trade openness, FDI, life expectancy (World Bank) plus general government debt (IMF WEO). Each value carries its own citation. Ideal for country briefs and report openers.
inflation_adjustConvert a nominal amount between years using official CPI: 'what is 100 (1995) worth in 2025 money?' Works for any country with CPI data (default USA). Returns the adjusted amount, the exact index values and formula used, and the citation. Annual-average precision.
fx_convertConvert an amount between currencies using ECB daily reference rates (~30 majors, any date since 1999) or, for ~90 other currencies (BBD, XCD, JMD, KES, …), official annual-average rates from the World Bank — with the method and citations stated explicitly. Pass date='YYYY-MM-DD' for daily or 'YYYY' for annual-average conversion.
list_sourcesThe official sources behind StatCite (World Bank WDI, IMF WEO via DBnomics, ECB reference rates, optional FRED), what each covers, its license, and the attribution line to use when citing.
searchSearch official economic statistics by free text, e.g. 'inflation barbados' or 'government debt japan'. Returns result ids that can be passed to fetch. Designed for deep-research connectors; for richer control use get_indicator / get_series.
fetchFetch full data for a result id returned by search (format: 'indicator/<key>/<ISO3>'). Returns the recent observations and the full citation as text.