StatCite — Verified Economic Statistics

Connect it to your AI

Claude Code

claude mcp add --transport http statcite https://statcite.com/mcp

Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor and other apps

Add it as a custom connector with this URL (Streamable HTTP):

https://statcite.com/mcp

Cursor, VS Code and other apps (mcp.json)

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "statcite": {
      "url": "https://statcite.com/mcp"
    }
  }
}

Tools it offers

12 tools, as the server itself reported during our check on Oct 31, 2026.

• 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
• 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
• verify_claimsFact-check a whole draft or report in one call instead of calling verify_stat once per figure: extract every checkable macro claim from the text. Indicator + country + period + claimed value, and submit them together. Ea
• get_seriesFetch any supported series by explicit id: 'worldbank/<WDI code>' (needs country), 'imf/<CODE>' (needs country; current-vintage IMF WEO/Fiscal Monitor via the DataMapper API), 'caribstat/<ECCB|CBB>/<table>/<series>' (Eas
• search_indicatorsSearch StatCite's curated indicator registry (World Bank WDI, IMF DataMapper/WEO/Fiscal Monitor, BIS policy rates, ECB HICP) and the Eastern Caribbean Central Bank and Central Bank of Barbados tables by topic, such as 'i
• compare_sourcesFetch one indicator for one country from EVERY official source in its chain independently (e.g. World Bank WDI and the IMF WEO/Fiscal Monitor) and see the values side by side, each with its own citation, plus the spread
• 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 (I
• inflation_adjustConvert a nominal amount between years using official CPI: 'what is 100 in 1995 money worth in today's money?' Works for any country with CPI data (default USA). Returns the adjusted amount, the exact index values and fo
• 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 met
• list_sourcesThe official sources behind StatCite (World Bank WDI, IMF WEO & Fiscal Monitor via the IMF DataMapper API with DBnomics as a vintage-pinned fallback, BIS central bank policy rates, ECB reference rates and the ECB Data Po
• 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_in
• fetchFetch full data for a result id returned by search (format: 'indicator/<key>/<ISO3>'). Returns the recent observations and the full citation as text.

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