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Product · AF-MACRO

African & EM macro indicators

Helps EM research teams put company and tender signals in macro context by joining curated World Bank indicators to the same entity spine so they can move from anecdote to defensible country views.

GDP, inflation, population and more, built on World Bank Open Data with every value cited to its series and license — the context layer under fundamentals and tenders.

Proof: 12 countries · 12 indicators · 2,024 country-year values (2010–24) · plus a point-in-time layer — daily FX & monthly CPI/FX for 5 core markets, as_of-queryable · every value cites its World Bank series (CC BY 4.0) · live via /v1/macro · 4 provenance guarantees

Use-case menu

What buyers do with AF-MACRO.

Context join

A research desk overlays inflation, FX and growth trends on fundamentals per country. Output: joined view. Value: one spine, zero reconciliation.

Country views

Move from anecdote to defensible country context — the same curated indicators under every company and tender signal. Output: CSV / API. Value: citable country baselines.

Agent grounding

Pull “Nigeria inflation” beside a company fundamental — with the series citation attached. Output: API / MCP. Value: macro answers that cite their source.

Coverage today

Twelve countries, twelve indicators.

12
Countries (Nigeria, Kenya, South Africa, Egypt, Ghana, Morocco, Côte d’Ivoire, Tanzania, Uganda, Ethiopia, Senegal, Rwanda)
12
Indicators — GDP, growth, inflation, population, GNI, real rate, unemployment, exports, FDI, FX, tax, life expectancy
2010–24
Annual observations, ~2,000 country-indicator-year values
Cited
Every value references its World Bank series & carries a license class

Live figures are always available from /v1/quality-metrics/af-macro and the get_macro MCP tool. Coverage expands as indicators and countries are added.

New · point-in-time layer

Tradeable macro, as-of-queryable.

The annual indicators above are research-grade context. For quant and systematic desks we ship a point-in-time layer: series stored with two timestamps — release_date (the source’s publication) and observed_at (our ingest) — so a backtest as-of date D sees only what was known at D. No look-ahead. Revisions are kept as new vintages, never overwritten.

5 markets
Monthly CPI (headline index + YoY) and FX for South Africa, Nigeria, Kenya, Egypt & Ghana — World Bank GEM (CC BY 4.0)
Daily ZAR/USD
ECB euro reference rates (license-clean) — the first daily high-frequency series
as_of
/v1/macro?series=…&as_of=YYYY-MM-DD returns the latest vintage known at that date — no look-ahead
MCP
get_macro_series exposes the same point-in-time series to agents; revisions kept as new vintages

Honest coverage today: live now — daily ZAR/USD (ECB reference) plus monthly CPI (headline index + YoY) and monthly FX (LCU/USD) for all five markets, from the World Bank Global Economic Monitor (CC BY 4.0). Still to come, built and tested — each shipping the moment its source clears license review: daily FX for NGN/KES/EGP/GHS, native-statistics CPI with a true revision history, and central-bank policy rates. GEM figures are as-published monthly levels and ECB rates are indicative daily snapshots (~16:00 CET) — not executable fixings. We publish the exact coverage rather than overclaim.

Schema

Data dictionary.

FieldTypeDescription
country_iso3stringISO-3 country code (NGA, KEN, ZAF…).
country_namestringCountry name.
indicator_codestringWorld Bank indicator code (e.g. FP.CPI.TOTL.ZG).
indicator_namestringHuman-readable indicator name.
yearintegerObservation year.
valuenumberIndicator value for the country-year.
source_refstringWorld Bank series reference (S013:worldbank/<code>).
license_classstringLicense Register code (S013, World Bank Open Data, CC BY 4.0).
Query it live

Nigeria’s inflation, 2010–2024.

curl
curl -H "x-api-key: your-key" \
  "…/v1/macro?country=NGA&indicator=FP.CPI.TOTL.ZG"

Agents can call the same via the MCP get_macro tool — pulling “Nigeria inflation” beside a Dangote fundamental and a live tender, all citable.

Try before you buy

Validate the World Bank lineage.

Like every Certvas product, AF-MACRO ships with its dictionary, provenance annex and measured metrics file. The free sample lets you validate the World Bank lineage for yourself.