# Edge Agents AI Country Demographic Age Structure

> Edge Agents AI Country Demographic Age Structure is a paid API for AI agents from pay.edge-agents.ai, paid per call via x402, $0.1/call, status unknown (last checked 2026-10-17).

Returns normalized country demographic data including population, age bands, dependency ratios, fertility and birth rates sourced from UN World Population Prospects via World Bank WDI, with explicit observation years and missing-data reporting.

## Facts

- Endpoint: GET https://pay.edge-agents.ai/v1/services/country-demographic-age-structure?utm_source=zero.xyz
- Price: $0.1/call
- Payment: x402
- Status: unknown
- Last checked: 2026-10-17
- Activations on Zero: 0
- Tags: x402
- Canonical page: https://www.zero.xyz/c/edge-agents-ai-country-demographic-age-structure-9e74b530
- Structured record (JSON): https://api.zero.xyz/v1/capabilities/cap_9xznJNoibOfv9oPww1axt

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 edge-agents-ai-country-demographic-age-structure-9e74b530
```

Example prompt: Pull the full demographic age structure for Germany — population, age bands, dependency ratios, fertility rate, and birth rate — and flag any missing indicators or data lags.

## When to prefer this

Choose this endpoint when you need authoritative, source-attributed country demographic data with explicit observation years, missing-data transparency, and consistency checks — especially for autonomous agent workflows that must not hallucinate or silently omit missing indicators. Prefer over raw World Bank or UN API calls when you need normalized, agent-ready output with provenance and quality metadata pre-attached.

## Known failure modes

- Invalid or unrecognized ISO 3-letter country code returns an error
- Data unavailable for some territories or very small nations results in dataStatus: unavailable
- Partial data coverage returns dataStatus: partial with explicit missing-indicator flags
- Payment failure or insufficient USDC balance prevents data delivery
- Stale data beyond 24-hour freshness target may be served with lag noted in response

## How this service works

Country population, age bands, dependency ratios, fertility and birth rate from UN World Population Prospects via World Bank WDI, with source, licence, lag and missing data. Input: ?country=ISO3. Purpose: Give an autonomous agent a normalized country demographic structure with explicit observation years, consistency checks and missing indicators. 24-hour freshness target; missing evidence is reported explicitly rather than invented.

## Output

A structured JSON report containing: population totals, age band breakdowns, old-age and youth dependency ratios, fertility rate, and crude birth rate for the requested country. Each indicator includes its observation year, data source (World Bank WDI / UN World Population Prospects), licence, data lag, and explicit flags for any missing indicators. Report includes a dataStatus field (complete/partial/unavailable), a generatedAt timestamp, consistency checks, and a quality assessment block.

## Request schema (JSON Schema)

```json
{
 "type": "object",
 "$schema": "https://json-schema.org/draft/2020-12/schema",
 "required": [
  "input"
 ],
 "properties": {
  "input": {
   "type": "object",
   "required": [
    "type",
    "method"
   ],
   "properties": {
    "type": {
     "type": "string",
     "const": "http"
    },
    "method": {
     "enum": [
      "GET"
     ],
     "type": "string"
    },
    "queryParams": {
     "type": "object",
     "required": [
      "country"
     ],
     "properties": {
      "country": {
       "type": "string",
       "pattern": "^[A-Za-z]{3}$",
       "maxLength": 3,
       "description": "ISO 3166-1 alpha-3 country code, for example GBR."
      }
     },
     "description": "Required: country (ISO 3166-1 alpha-3 country code, for example GBR.)",
     "additionalProperties": false
    }
   },
   "additionalProperties": false
  },
  "output": {
   "type": "object",
   "required": [
    "type"
   ],
   "properties": {
    "type": {
     "type": "string"
    },
    "example": {
     "type": "object",
     "required": [
      "serviceId",
      "generatedAt",
      "dataStatus",
      "analysis"
     ],
     "properties": {
      "quality": {
       "type": "object",
       "description": "Evidence-quality assessment; not probability of profit."
      },
      "analysis": {
       "type": "object",
       "description": "Product-specific findings calculated from eligible evidence."
      },
      "evidence": {
       "type": "object",
       "description": "Observed evidence, providers, timestamps and source lineage supporting the analysis."
      },
      "reportId": {
       "type": "string",
       "description": "Product report identifier when the service exposes one."
      },
      "serviceId": {
       "type": "string",
       "const": "country-demographic-age-structure"
      },
      "dataStatus": {
       "enum": [
        "complete",
        "partial",
        "unavailable"
       ],
       "type": "string",
       "description": "Completeness of eligible evidence used by the live report."
      },
      "deliveryId": {
       "type": "string",
       "description": "Unique delivery identifier returned after a successful paid request."
      },
      "disclaimer": {
       "type": "string"
      },
      "provenance": {
       "type": "object",
       "description": "Issuer and signature/verification status when available."
      },
      "generatedAt": {
       "type": "string",
       "pattern": "^\\d{4}-\\d{2}-\\d{2}T\\d{2}:\\d{2}:\\d{2}
… (truncated)
```

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