World Bank Open Data

Connect World Bank Open Data to PostHog to sync your data into the PostHog data warehouse for analysis and modeling.

Pull country-level development statistics from the World Bank Indicators API into the PostHog Data warehouse.

The API is open, so no credentials are required. The World Bank publishes around 16,000 indicator series, which is far too much to sync wholesale, so enter the indicator codes you want (up to 50), one per line. For example:

SP.POP.TOTL
NY.GDP.PCAP.CD
IT.NET.USER.ZS

You can look codes up in the indicators table or on data.worldbank.org. Observations for every code you enter land in a single indicator_data table.

The API has no "changed since" filter, and the World Bank revises historical values on each quarterly release, so every table syncs as a full refresh.

Configuration

Option	Type	Required
Indicator codes	textarea	Yes

Linking World Bank Open Data to PostHog

1. Go to the Data pipeline page in PostHog
2. Click New source and select World Bank Open Data
3. Fill in the required configuration fields
4. Click Next, select the tables you want to sync, and then press Import