World Bank Data
Overview
the
World Bank
is an international bank that provides loans to low and middle income type countries for investment purposes.
As such, it collects data on international demographic and economic issues. It makes its data avaiable for free.
(See
world bank data and
world bank api)
World Bank Api
The world bank makes its data available as
let data = await $url("https://api.worldbank.org/v2/country/all/indicator/SP.POP.TOTL?date=2000");
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World Bank Api Module
The data provided by the World Bank API is returned in XML format. This means that some processing is required in order to turn it into
Javascript objects.
The world bank api module hosted in the davinci library provides utilities for post processing the
data after downloading it.
let dt = await import('/lib/data/world-bank/v1.0.0/world-bank.mjs');
let test = await dt.data('https://api.worldbank.org/v2/country/all/indicator/SP.POP.TOTL?date=2000', $url);
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