OECD Data API MCP. Audit global economic indicators via conversation.

Your AI agent connects directly to the OECD’s global economic database, letting you run complex macroeconomic research—auditing social and fiscal series—without ever touching a messy data portal. You're not just querying; you're conducting full-scale policy audits right from your chat interface.

The OECD Data API - Global Economic & Social Metrics lets your agent handle the heavy lifting: retrieving historical datasets, checking regional trends across dozens of countries, or listing specific indicators using plain language queries. You won’t spend time building complex SQL joins; you just ask for what you need and get actionable data back.

Checking Service Status

Using check_api_status confirms whether the primary OECD Data service is up and running and ready to take your requests. Before you run anything big, calling this tool gives you immediate confirmation that the entire API infrastructure is online, so you know your queries won't hit a dead end.

Browsing Available Dataflows

When you need to figure out what data exists—say, you’re researching labor market shifts or educational spending—you start with list_oecd_dataflows. This tool gives you an exhaustive list of every available dataset and thematic series housed within the entire OECD catalog. You'll get a clear inventory of indicators ranging from historical population metrics to modern environmental impact scores.

It lets you scope out your research by showing you all the relevant buckets of data, so you don’t waste time guessing what IDs to search for.

Retrieving Specific Datasets

Once you know exactly what you need—maybe you're tracking changes in private pension spending or analyzing regional tax revenue over a decade—you use get_oecd_dataset. You feed this tool a specific OECD dataset ID, and it pulls the detailed economic or social data right out for you. The output isn’t just numbers; it includes high-resolution statistics that let you track global economic changes through time, cross-reference multiple countries in a single comparison, and audit complex fiscal series across different geopolitical zones.

This capability means your agent can pull granular historical datasets, allowing you to see how things looked 50 years ago compared to today. You're checking regional trends—like comparing healthcare expenditure growth rates between two distinct continents—and getting immediate results. It helps classify deep-dive archival data precisely by giving you unique dataset IDs and observation metadata for everything it returns.

In short, you stop manually logging into multiple government or international sites just to build a single comparison chart. Your agent handles the entire retrieval process, letting you focus on what the numbers mean—the actual policy implications and market shifts that matter.