Get GDP for Any Country in One API Request

The fastest way to understand an API is a request that actually works. Here's GDP for Germany, end to end, against the real production endpoint — no placeholder values.

The request

GET https://api.economicsapi.com/v1/latest?country=germany&indicator=gdp
Authorization: Bearer sk_live_xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

country accepts an ISO3 code (DEU), the slug (germany), or a group token like g20 or eu27 — see the full country list for every slug we support. indicator accepts the KPI ID or the slug; gdp is one of the 20 indicators covered for every country that carries it.

The response

{
  "data": [
    {
      "series_id": "DEU.NA.GDP.CUR.USD",
      "country_id": "DEU",
      "country": "Germany",
      "kpi_id": "NA.GDP.CUR.USD",
      "indicator": "GDP, current prices, USD",
      "slug": "gdp",
      "group": "gdp",
      "latest_value": 5050922925047.05,
      "latest_value_date": "2025-12-31",
      "previous_value": 4685592577804.69,
      "previous_value_date": "2024-12-31",
      "highest_value": 5050922925047.05,
      "highest_value_date": "2025-12-31",
      "lowest_value": 84619845881.26,
      "lowest_value_date": "1960-12-31",
      "unit": "USD bn",
      "frequency": "annual",
      "source_name": "World Bank",
      "source_url": "https://data.worldbank.org"
    }
  ]
}

That's the same figure shown on the Germany hub and the Germany GDP page — this is a live production endpoint, not a demo dataset with different numbers than the site.

Multiple countries in one call

Comma-list the country parameter to avoid one request per country:

GET https://api.economicsapi.com/v1/latest?country=germany,france,japan&indicator=gdp
Authorization: Bearer sk_live_xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

Or use a group token to get an entire cohort — g20 for the G20, eu27 for every EU member state — in a single request rather than looping through 20+ separate calls.

Reading the response fields

latest_value and latest_value_date are the current reading. previous_value, highest_value, and lowest_value give you trend context — up, down, near a historical extreme — without a second request. source_name and source_url are the attribution: here, World Bank World Development Indicators, the same source cited on every GDP-related page on this site. The full field reference, including the other 19 indicators (inflation, unemployment, policy rates, and more), is in the indicator catalog.

Beyond GDP: history and other indicators

Swap indicator=gdp for any other slug — inflation-rate, unemployment-rate, government-debt-to-gdp — against the same /v1/latest shape, or point the same country and indicator parameters at /v1/history for the full time series instead of just the latest reading. If you're wiring this up for an AI agent rather than a script, the same data is available as an MCP tool — see giving your agent live economics data for that version of this walkthrough. Every field returned here traces back to a documented source — see how we source and verify the data for the full picture.