StatCite — Verified Economic Statistics MCP server

StatCite

Economic statistics your AI can actually cite, with a verifier that catches the ones it invents.

· Live status · AI accuracy benchmark · Licence ledger · Verification guide

Every figure, verdict and citation above is real output from a live call, captured by tools/make-demo-gif.py at build time. A model recalling 98% is not a strawman: it was roughly right a few years earlier, which is exactly how stale recall sounds.

Free remote MCP server + REST API serving official economic statistics from the World Bank, IMF WEO and Fiscal Monitor (current vintage via the IMF DataMapper API, with a DBnomics fallback), BIS policy rates, ECB reference rates, and two regional central banks (the Eastern Caribbean Central Bank and the Central Bank of Barbados, covering Anguilla and Montserrat, which the World Bank does not report), where every number ships with its full citation: source, dataset, series ID, canonical URL, licence, retrieval date, a ready-to-paste citation sentence, and BibTeX/APA export formats.

The differentiator is verification, not lookup: verifystat checks a claimed figure against the official series and returns match / close / mismatch / cannotverify with diagnostics for the classic errors (wrong year, percent-vs-decimal, millions-vs-billions, sign flips). On a mismatch it re-judges the claim against the previous IMF vintage, so "was right when written, since revised" is never confused with "wrong". When the source cannot support a verdict, it says cannot_verify with the reason. It never guesses.

Three things people use it for

1. Fact-check a draft. The factcheck MCP prompt + verifyclaims audit every macro figure in a document, in batches of 15, each verdict carrying the citation for the correct number.
2. Cited data for agent reports. getindicator and countrysnapshot return official series with paste-ready citations, honest projection labelling, and machine-readable "no published value exists" instead of silent gaps.
3. Resolve source disagreements. compare_sources fetches one indicator from every official source in its chain and shows the spread (e.g. general-vs-central government debt definitions), each value with its own citation.

Install in one line

Shortened. The full README is on GitHub.