# Economic Data Explorer – Time Series by Indicator

> Economic Data Explorer – Time Series by Indicator is a paid API for AI agents from econdash.org, paid per call via x402, $0.02/call, status unknown (last checked 2026-09-15).

Retrieves historical time series data for a specific economic, demographic, or health indicator across countries

## Facts

- Endpoint: GET https://econdash.org/api/v1/m2m/timeseries/%7Bcode%7D
- Price: $0.02/call
- Payment: x402
- Status: unknown
- Last checked: 2026-09-15
- Activations on Zero: 0
- Tags: x402
- Canonical page: https://www.zero.xyz/c/economic-data-explorer-time-series-by-indicator-8f5fabde
- Structured record (JSON): https://api.zero.xyz/v1/capabilities/cap_u_Xsi_JknGhL7bhAGRAaB

Status and success rate cover calls made through Zero and Zero's own probes. Third-party monitors may report differently.

## How to call it through Zero

Zero handles the 402 payment challenge and records the run. With the Zero CLI installed (`npm i -g @zeroxyz/cli`):

```sh
zero fetch --capability economic-data-explorer-time-series-by-indicator-8f5fabde
```

Example prompt: Pull the annual inflation rate (indicator FP.CPI.TOTL.ZG) for the United States from January 2010 to December 2023 from the Economic Data Explorer.

## When to prefer this

Use this endpoint when you need structured historical time series data for a specific World Bank-style economic, demographic, or health indicator for one or more countries. Ideal for trend analysis, country comparisons, or embedding economic context into reports. Prefer this over general web searches when you need clean, structured numeric data with consistent date formatting.

## Known failure modes

- Invalid or unrecognized indicator code returns empty array or 404
- Invalid ISO 3166-1 alpha-3 country code returns no data or error
- Date range with no available data returns empty array
- Missing required path parameter 'code' returns 400 or routing error
- Payment failure (x402) blocks the response entirely

## How this service works

Interactive dashboard for exploring economic, demographic, and health indicators across countries. 265 indicators, 298 countries.

## Output

Returns a JSON array of time-stamped data points, each containing the date, numeric indicator value, ISO country code, and indicator code — representing the full requested time series for that indicator and country combination.

## Request schema (JSON Schema)

```json
{
 "type": "object",
 "$schema": "https://json-schema.org/draft/2020-12/schema",
 "required": [
  "input"
 ],
 "properties": {
  "input": {
   "type": "object",
   "required": [
    "type",
    "method"
   ],
   "properties": {
    "type": {
     "type": "string",
     "const": "http"
    },
    "method": {
     "enum": [
      "GET",
      "HEAD",
      "DELETE"
     ],
     "type": "string"
    },
    "pathParams": {
     "type": "object",
     "required": [
      "code"
     ],
     "properties": {
      "code": {
       "type": "string",
       "description": "Indicator code, e.g. FP.CPI.TOTL.ZG"
      }
     }
    },
    "queryParams": {
     "type": "object",
     "properties": {
      "to": {
       "type": "string",
       "format": "date",
       "description": "End date"
      },
      "from": {
       "type": "string",
       "format": "date",
       "description": "Start date"
      },
      "country": {
       "type": "string",
       "description": "ISO 3166-1 alpha-3 country code"
      }
     }
    }
   },
   "additionalProperties": false
  },
  "output": {
   "type": "object",
   "required": [
    "type"
   ],
   "properties": {
    "type": {
     "type": "string"
    },
    "example": {
     "type": "object"
    }
   }
  }
 }
}
```

## Response schema (JSON Schema)

```json
{
 "type": "json",
 "example": [
  {
   "date": "2023-01-01",
   "value": 27.36,
   "country": "USA",
   "indicator": "NY.GDP.MKTP.CD"
  }
 ]
}
```

## More

- Live health (JSON, refreshed every minute): https://www.zero.xyz/c/economic-data-explorer-time-series-by-indicator-8f5fabde/health.json
- [Zero catalog index](https://www.zero.xyz/llms.txt)
- [Other services from econdash.org](https://www.zero.xyz/host/econdash.org/llms.txt)