INDEPENDENT POLICY & RESEARCHConceptual framework Edition 0.16.4
Public sources · Explicit provenance

Follow the source.
Keep its limitations.

Source documentation supports definitions and data access. A public or official source does not establish currentness, legal authority, causal validity or support for MAR.

Supported import paths

All calculators accept bounded local JSON input and flat CSV observation tables. Files are parsed locally, validated and recalculated. CSV blanks remain null. API keys, personal records and sensitive infrastructure details do not belong in browser files.

The optional World Bank adapter retrieves one annual observation for the United States, China or Russia. Supported series are total population and GDP in current US dollars for an explicit year 2000–2025. These contextual aggregates are not live civilian continuity data and are never converted into country performance coefficients. Missing values remain missing.

Census, BLS, USAspending and WTO are documented manual-snapshot sources in this release. EIA and FEC keyed integrations are planned; no credential is embedded. FEMA and UNCTAD retrieval was blocked during source review, so no automated integration is claimed.

Optional public-data snapshot

This explicit request contacts api.worldbank.org, which receives the selected country, series and year and ordinary connection metadata. No policy notes are sent. A refresh replaces a snapshot only after schema validation.

No external request has been made.

Source metadata dictionary

Snapshots retain source ID, series, URL, publisher, geography, unit, currency base year, period start/end, retrieval timestamp, release date, license, transforms, quality flags, last human review and raw-content checksum. Unknown metadata stays null; current-dollar GDP is not labeled inflation-adjusted. Revisions, coverage and interpretation require human review.

Authoritative reference index