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wbdata

A python library for accessing world bank data
PyPI GitHub
No known security advisories. The current version has no OSV.dev malware reports and no critical or high-severity vulnerabilities.

wbdata has 4.9M monthly downloads and 210 GitHub stars. Version 1.1.0 supports Python <4,>=3.10, first published in 2012.

It is minimally maintained under a copyleft license, last released in Oct 2025.

It is built on top of appdirs, backoff and cachetools. It is used by 5 tracked packages, including cartograpy, rag-startups and openborders.

Downloads
Day
299.5K
Week
2.2M
Month
4.9M
Stars
210
Forks
57
Issues
6
Version
1.1.0

Package Insights

What's this?
Score breakdown - each component scores 0-100, weighted by percentage
Maintenance
30
Popularity
50
Adoption
100
Community
40
Provenance
0
How the maintenance status was determined
Last commit
274 days ago
Monthly downloads
4,908,497
Active
Activity within 30 days
Stable
Activity within 31-180 days
• Minimal
Activity within 181-365 days, or no activity data
At Risk
No activity for > 365 days, but > 10,000 monthly downloads
Archived
Repository flagged as archived on GitHub
How the popularity category was determined
Monthly downloads
4,908,497
Stars
210
Stars per 1k downloads
0.04
Industry Standard
> 10,000,000 monthly downloads
• Hidden Gem
< 0.5 stars per 1k downloads and > 100,000 monthly downloads
Community Favorite
> 5 stars per 1k downloads
Rising Star
Balanced ratio of stars to downloads
Unknown
Fewer than 1,000 monthly downloads, or no star data
How download momentum is calculated
Week daily avg
310,199
Month daily avg
163,617
Momentum
+89.6%
((week_daily_avg - month_daily_avg) / month_daily_avg) * 100
Python version support tiers
requires_python
<4,>=3.10
Cutting Edge
Minimum supported version is 3.12 or newer
• Modern
Minimum supported version is 3.9, 3.10, or 3.11
Legacy
Supports 3.8 or older (or Python 2)
Unknown
No requires_python specified or unparseable
License categories
License
GPL-2.0+
Permissive
MIT, Apache, BSD, ISC, Unlicense, CC0, etc.
• Copyleft
GPL, LGPL, AGPL, MPL, EPL, etc.
Proprietary
Commercial, all rights reserved, custom EULAs
Unknown
No license specified, or none of the above match
How the release cadence was determined
Last release
274 days ago
Total releases
9
Releases/year
0.7
Rapid
Last release within 365 days and > 12 releases/year
• Regular
Last release within 365 days
Slow
Last release 366-730 days ago
Stalled
Last release > 730 days ago, or no releases
Unknown
No usable release date available
How contributor risk was determined
Contributors
7
Monthly downloads
4,908,497
High Load
≤ 2 contributors and ≥ 50,000 monthly downloads
• Moderate Load
< 10 contributors and ≥ 500,000 monthly downloads
Low Load
< 25 contributors and ≥ 5,000,000 monthly downloads, or sole maintainer with ≥ 10,000 monthly downloads
Balanced
Enough contributors for the package's popularity
Unknown
No contributor data available
Engagement
46
 
Issue Burden
28.6
per 1k stars
Discussions
0.0
per 1k stars
Fork Ratio
12.3%
contrib / forks
Stale Release
No
 
PR Velocity
Quiet
 

Weekly Downloads

GitHub Stars

Not all downloads include detailed metadata. Breakdowns reflect the subset that does.

Downloads by OS

Linux 296.5K
Windows 29
macOS 9

Python Versions

3.12
99.9% 296.3K
3.13
0.0% 86
3.11
0.0% 42
3.10
0.0% 25
3.14
0.0% 17

Top Countries

1. US US
296.4K
2. JP JP
16
3. SG SG
15
4. CN CN
14
5. HK HK
11
6. IN IN
6
7. TR TR
6
8. RU RU
4
9. NL NL
3
10. DO DO
2

Dependencies

8
3 optional dependencies

Used By

5

Package Information

License
GPL-2.0+
First Release
December 28, 2012
Last Release
9 months ago
Last Commit
9 months ago
Latest Version
1.1.0
Total Releases
9
Contributors
7
Open PRs
1
Archived
No
Wheels
py3
Keywords
World Bank data economics
Tracking Since
January 6, 2026
Data Updated
July 5, 2026
Data Freshness
Fresh

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