Topic Queries

Topics

Topics are high level categories that all indicators are mapped to.

To see a full list of topics:
http://api.worldbank.org//topics/?api_key=xxxx

These are the current topics in the API:
<wb:topics page="1" pages="1" per_page="50" total="20">
<wb:topic id="644290">Agriculture</wb:topic>
<wb:topic id="644284">Communities and Human Settlements</wb:topic>
<wb:topic id="644301">Education</wb:topic>
<wb:topic id="644304">Energy</wb:topic>
<wb:topic id="644288">Environment</wb:topic>
<wb:topic id="644297">Finance and Financial Sector</wb:topic>
<wb:topic id="644305">Gender</wb:topic>
<wb:topic id="644300">Health Nutrition and Population</wb:topic>
<wb:topic id="644286">Industry</wb:topic>
<wb:topic id="644292">Information and Communication Technologies</wb:topic>
<wb:topic id="644298">International Economics and Trade</wb:topic>
<wb:topic id="644282">Law and Development</wb:topic>
<wb:topic id="644279">Macroeconomics and Economic Growth</wb:topic>
<wb:topic id="644302">Poverty Reduction</wb:topic>
<wb:topic id="644285">Private Sector Development</wb:topic>
<wb:topic id="644295">Public Sector Development</wb:topic>
<wb:topic id="644291">Social Protections and Labor</wb:topic>
<wb:topic id="644303">Transport</wb:topic>
<wb:topic id="644296">Urban Development</wb:topic>
<wb:topic id="644287">Water Supply and Sanitation</wb:topic>
</wb:topics>

Sample Calls

Topic-based calls are probably going to be less common for most users. 

This call will return all indicators associated with topic ID 644304, which is Energy:
http://open.worldbank.org/topic/644304/indicators/?api_key=xxxx