# World Bank Economy Stress Screen

> World Bank Economy Stress Screen is a paid API for AI agents from world-bank.x402tookit.com, paid per call via x402, $0.03/call, status down (last checked 2026-10-24).

Returns recession, high inflation, unemployment, and debt stress flags for a given country using the latest World Bank data.

## Facts

- Endpoint: GET https://world-bank.x402tookit.com/economy-health?utm_source=zero.xyz
- Price: $0.03/call
- Payment: x402
- Status: down
- Last checked: 2026-10-24
- Activations on Zero: 0
- Tags: x402
- Canonical page: https://www.zero.xyz/c/world-bank-economy-stress-screen-e9cc9b3f
- Structured record (JSON): https://api.zero.xyz/v1/capabilities/cap_bGzibyuXU7fh-HT1d1wLk

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 world-bank-economy-stress-screen-e9cc9b3f
```

Example prompt: Run an economy stress screen for Argentina — I want to know if it's flagged for recession, high inflation, unemployment, or debt problems based on the latest World Bank data.

## When to prefer this

Choose this endpoint when you need a fast, pre-computed economic stress assessment with actionable flags (recession, inflation, debt, unemployment) rather than raw time-series data. Ideal for country-risk screening workflows, investment due diligence, or automated watchlists where you need a verdict and reasons rather than historical trends. Use sibling endpoints for multi-country comparisons, historical trend analysis, or raw indicator series.

## Known failure modes

- Unknown or misspelled country name returns an error or null result
- World Bank data unavailable for a country returns degraded=true with partial indicators
- Some indicators may not be checked if data is missing, listed in notChecked array
- Network or upstream World Bank API failure returns error response
- Very small or non-member territories may have no data

## How this service works

Economy stress screen for a country: recession, high inflation, unemployment and debt flags from the latest World Bank data.

## Output

Returns a structured object including: overall verdict (e.g. stressed/healthy), a list of raised stress flags (e.g. HIGH_INFLATION, HIGH_DEBT), human-readable reasons, a summary narrative, key indicator values (GDP growth, inflation, unemployment, government debt % of GDP) with their data year, applied thresholds, income group classification, ISO3 code, data source URL, and a disclaimer. May include a 'degraded' flag if some indicators were unavailable.

## Request schema (JSON Schema)

```json
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 "required": [
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     "const": "http"
    },
    "method": {
     "enum": [
      "GET"
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     "type": "string"
    },
    "queryParams": {
     "type": "object",
     "required": [
      "country"
     ],
     "properties": {
      "country": {
       "type": "string",
       "description": "Country name or ISO code"
      }
     }
    }
   },
   "additionalProperties": false
  },
  "output": {
   "type": "object",
   "required": [
    "type"
   ],
   "properties": {
    "type": {
     "type": "string"
    },
    "example": {
     "type": "object",
     "properties": {
      "asOf": {
       "type": [
        "null",
        "string"
       ]
      },
      "iso3": {
       "type": [
        "null",
        "string"
       ]
      },
      "flags": {
       "type": [
        "array",
        "null"
       ],
       "items": {
        "type": "string"
       }
      },
      "source": {
       "type": [
        "null",
        "string"
       ]
      },
      "country": {
       "type": [
        "null",
        "string"
       ]
      },
      "reasons": {
       "type": [
        "array",
        "null"
       ],
       "items": {
        "type": "string"
       }
      },
      "summary": {
       "type": [
        "null",
        "string"
       ]
      },
      "verdict": {
       "type": [
        "null",
        "string"
       ]
      },
      "degraded": {
       "type": [
        "boolean",
        "null"
       ]
      },
      "sourceUrl": {
       "type": [
        "null",
        "string"
       ]
      },
      "disclaimer": {
       "type": [
        "null",
        "string"
       ]
      },
      "indicators": {
       "type": [
        "null",
        "object"
       ],
       "properties": {
        "gdpGrowth": {
         "type": [
          "null",
          "object"
         ],
         "properties": {
          "year": {
           "type": [
            "null",
            "number"
           ]
          },
          "value": {
           "type": [
            "null",
            "number"
           ]
          }
         }
        },
        "inflation": {
         "type": [
          "null",
          "object"
         ],
         "properties": {
          "year": {
           "typ
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```

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