Overview
GDP API provides comprehensive economic data from the World Bank including GDP in current USD, GDP growth rate, and GDP per capita. Query the latest data or retrieve data for a specific year for economic analysis and research. With changes=true every reading is set against the country's own stored history: whether GDP rose or fell for every plan, and on paid plans the previous year, its GDP and real growth rate, the change in dollars and percent, the per-capita change, a growth trend (accelerating, slowing or steady), the 5-year average real growth rate, and the 5- and 10-year compound annual growth rates of nominal GDP.
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Formula
One function covers the whole catalog: the first argument names the source, the next are its inputs, and the field after them says which single value lands in the cell. Formulas covers the grammar that applies to all of them.
=VERVE("gdp", A2, "countryName")=VERVE.CALL("gdp", A2, "countryName")A2 holds the country you are looking up. Drag the formula down and each row resolves on its own.
With literal values
Nothing has to come from a cell — typed values work the same way.
=VERVE("gdp", "US", "countryName")=VERVE.CALL("gdp", "US", "countryName")Inputs
Required inputs are positional, in the order below, followed by the field. Everything else is passed as a "name", value pair after that — the same shape as SUMIFS. Premium inputs are accepted on every plan but only take effect on plans that include them.
| Input | Type | Where it goes | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
countryRequired | string | argument 2 (A2) | ISO 2 or 3-letter country code (e.g., US, USA, GB, GBR) length 2–3 |
yearOptionalPremium | integer | "year", value | Specific year to retrieve data for (1960-present). Returns latest if not specified. range 1960–2030 |
changesOptional | boolean | "changes", value | Include the change against the previous year, the growth trend, the 5-year average growth rate and the 5- and 10-year compound annual growth rates |
Passing an option
=VERVE("gdp", A2, "countryName", "year", 2023)=VERVE.CALL("gdp", A2, "countryName", "year", 2023)What lands in your sheet
The field — the argument after the inputs — is what makes the formula resolve to one cell. Its value is a dot-path from the table below, so swapping it is how you pull a different value — one formula per column.
Seeing everything at once
Leave the field out and the formula returns the whole response instead: two columns, field name on the left and value on the right, spilling from the cell you typed in.
=VERVE("gdp", A2)=VERVE.CALL("gdp", A2)The second row's table would land on top of the first's, and every cell after the first reads #REF! (#SPILL! in Excel). Keep one per sheet, or name a field, and leave the cells below and to the right empty.
Response fields
Paths are relative to data. Each one is exactly what the field argument accepts, so swapping it is how you pull a different value into a cell. On a plan without a Premium field the cell reads #PREMIUM(field) rather than a value, so a locked field never looks like a real answer.
| Use as the field | Type | Example cell value | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
country | string | US | ISO country code of the queried country |
countryName | string | United States | Full name of the country in English |
currency | string | USD | Official currency code for the country |
year | number | 2025 | Year for which GDP data is provided |
gdp | number | 30769700000000 | Gross Domestic Product in current USD |
gdpFormatted | string | $30.77 trillion | Formatted GDP value (e.g., $27.36 trillion) |
gdpGrowth | number | 2.16 | Annual GDP growth rate as percentage |
gdpPerCapita | number | 90027 | GDP per capita in current USD |
countPremium | number | 1 | Number of year records returned |
yearsPremium | array[1] | Array of GDP records for multiple years | |
years.0.yearPremium | number | 2025 | Year of the GDP data record |
years.0.gdpPremium | number | 30769700000000 | Gross Domestic Product in current USD |
years.0.gdpFormattedPremium | string | $30.77 trillion | Formatted GDP value (e.g., $27.36 trillion) |
years.0.gdpGrowthPremium | number | 2.16 | Annual GDP growth rate as percentage |
years.0.gdpPerCapitaPremium | number | 90027 | GDP per capita in current USD |
previousYearPremium | number | 2024 | Year of the previous GDP record, the year before the reading (with changes=true) |
changeDirection | string | up | Whether GDP rose, fell or held against the previous year: up, down or unchanged (with changes=true) |
previousGdpPremium | number | 29298013000000 | GDP in current USD for the previous year (with changes=true) |
gdpChangePremium | number | 1471687000000 | Change in GDP from the previous year, in current USD (with changes=true) |
gdpChangePercentPremium | number | 5.02 | Percent change in nominal GDP (current USD) from the previous year; gdpGrowth is the real, inflation-adjusted rate (with changes=true) |
previousGdpGrowthPremium | number | 2.79 | Real GDP growth rate for the previous year, as a percentage (with changes=true) |
growthTrendPremium | string | slowing | Whether real growth is accelerating, slowing or steady against the previous year's rate (with changes=true) |
gdpPerCapitaChangePercentPremium | number | 4.48 | Percent change in GDP per capita (current USD) from the previous year (with changes=true) |
gdpCagr5yPremium | number | 7.56 | Compound annual growth rate of nominal GDP over the 5 years ending at the reading, as a percentage (with changes=true) |
gdpCagr10yPremium | number | 5.34 | Compound annual growth rate of nominal GDP over the 10 years ending at the reading, as a percentage (with changes=true) |
averageGrowth5yPremium | number | 3.31 | Average real GDP growth rate over the 5 years ending at the reading, as a percentage; null unless all 5 years are reported (with changes=true) |
Filling a whole column
Both platforms make one batched call for a column rather than one request per cell, and both cost the same — 2 credits per row looked up. How you write it differs, because the two runtimes batch at different points.
=VERVE("gdp", A2:A100, "countryName")In Google Sheets, give the arguments ranges and the answers spill down from the cell you typed in. Custom functions there run synchronously and in isolation, so dragged cells cannot be coalesced — the range form is how a column becomes one call. The field is required here: a per-row two-column table has nowhere to spill. Use a full column per input (A2:A100, not A2) — a single-cell reference is read as row 1 only and the rest of the column comes back blank.
In Excel, type the formula once and fill down — no range form and none needed, because its runtime is asynchronous and the add-in coalesces the calls a fill produces into a single batched request. Do not hand VERVE.CALL a range: Excel flattens it into positional arguments, so A2:A100 arrives as a hundred separate arguments and the cell reads #ERR rather than filling.
Either way, column A holds your country values and the answers land beside them, one row each, blank rows skipped.
When a cell doesn't fill
A failed lookup returns readable text starting with #ERR rather than a spreadsheet error, because Excel cannot show a custom message on a real error — you would get a bare #VALUE! with no reason. The trade-off is that IFERROR() will not catch it; test with LEFT(cell, 4) = "#ERR" instead. Error handling covers the rest.
| Cell reads | What happened |
|---|---|
#ERR Not connected | No API key saved. Open the side panel and connect your account. |
#ERR Replace <name> with a cell or value | A preview formula was copied as-is. Swap the placeholder for a cell reference. |
#ERR No "x" in gdp | An option name this source does not take. The message lists the ones it does. |
#ERR No data point "…" | The field path is not in the response. Check it against the table above. |
#PREMIUM(field) | The field exists but your plan does not include it. |
#ERR Out of credits | The cycle's credits are spent. Usage resets on your billing date. |
Before the formula works
The add-in reads the API key you saved once in the side panel — the key never goes in the formula, so a shared sheet does not leak it and a collaborator without access simply sees the last calculated values.
- Install the add-in for Google Sheets or Excel.
- Open the side panel and sign in, or paste a key from your dashboard.
- Type the formula above into any cell.
Use cases
- Sovereign Risk Assessment
- To assess national debt sustainability, credit rating agencies compare a government's outstanding obligations against total economic output and per capita income.
- Cross-Border Expansion Benchmarking
- When evaluating consumer purchasing power in emerging markets, retail strategists benchmark local gross domestic product per capita against established regional markets.
- Macroeconomic Dashboard Widgets
- Feed annual growth rates and formatted dollar outputs directly into financial intelligence portals to track national output shifts across continents.
- Academic Research Modeling
- Economists track multi-decade development trajectories by pulling historical national production numbers and yearly growth percentages for statistical regression models.
Other ways to use Country GDP
Set up Country GDP on VerveSheets, or reach the same source a different way. Your VerveSheets account and credits work on all of them — one key, one balance.
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