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StatCite MCP server
by asokore
Your AI can look up official economic numbers with full citations, and check figures it already has.
StatCite is a free online helper that gives your AI access to official economic statistics from the World Bank, the IMF, the BIS, the ECB and two Caribbean central banks. Every number comes with a proper citation you can paste into a report. It is handy for anyone who writes about economies, budgets, debt, inflation or exchange rates and needs figures they can actually stand behind.
What is an MCP server? The 30-second version
On its own, your AI can only chat. It answers from memory, and memory goes stale. An MCP server is a small helper program that gives your AI a new skill or a connection to a service. This one connects your AI to StatCite, which sits in front of official statistical databases, so when you ask about a country's inflation or debt, your AI can fetch the real published figure with its source instead of guessing.
What this MCP server does
You ask your AI something like how much debt Japan has compared with its economy. Your AI passes the question to StatCite. StatCite goes to the official source, such as the IMF or the World Bank, and pulls the series you asked for. It hands back the number, the year, the source, a link, the licence and a ready-to-paste citation sentence. If you give it a figure you already have, it checks that figure against the official series and tells you whether it matches, is close, is wrong, or cannot be checked.
Click to zoomWhat you can do with it
- Look up an official economic figure for a country and year
- Check a number you already have against the official series
- Audit every macro figure in a draft document in batches
- Compare one indicator across several official sources to see the spread
- Get a quick snapshot of a country's main economic numbers
- Adjust an old amount for inflation to today's money
- Convert an amount between about 120 currencies
Try asking your AI
- “What was US inflation in 2023, with the source?”
- “Check this claim: Japan's government debt was 250 percent of GDP in 2022”
- “Give me a country snapshot for Barbados with citations”
- “Compare government debt as a share of GDP for Germany from every official source you have”
What it gives back to you
You get the figure itself, the year or period it covers, and the source it came from. Alongside that comes a citation sentence you can paste straight into your document, plus a link, the licence and the retrieval date. When you ask it to check a claim, you get a verdict such as match, close, mismatch or cannot verify, with a short note explaining what went wrong if the numbers disagree. Everything shows up as ordinary text in your chat.
Before you start
What you need
- An AI app that can connect to MCP servers, such as Claude, Cursor, VS Code or ChatGPT developer mode
- Nothing else. No signup, no API key, no payment
Good to know
It only reads data, it never changes or deletes anything, but remember that IMF figures are sometimes projections rather than actual results, and StatCite labels those clearly so you should keep the label when you quote them.
Install it with your AI
Add StatCite MCP server to your AI, no technical skills needed
You don't install anything by hand. You copy one prompt, paste it into an AI that can work on your computer, and it checks, installs and connects the server for you, asking you when it needs something.
Sign in to get the install prompt
Members get a ready-made prompt that lets the Claude desktop app check StatCite MCP server, install it and connect it for them, step by step. You don't need any technical skills: you copy, paste and answer a few questions. Your connected AI can also find and install any of the 4,066 MCP servers here for you.
Who it's for
Economists, analysts, journalists, students and anyone who writes reports or briefs containing economic figures and needs them to be right and properly sourced.
