Gis: TRADING ECONOMICS | GIS API

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Trading Economics exposes its entire dataset as geospatial layers through the OGC API – Features standard. Every data point is delivered as a GeoJSON feature anchored to a country polygon or centroid, so you can load it directly into QGIS, ArcGIS Pro, or any OGC-compliant client — no conversion, no middleware. A single URL gives you live, queryable, styleable layers ready for choropleth mapping (see GDP Growth Map), labeling, or temporal animation alongside your existing spatial data.

Endpoints: Indicators | Markets | FRED | COMTRADE

Clients: QGIS | ArcGIS | Proxy

Gis: TRADING ECONOMICS | GIS Authentication

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

To access the Trading Economics Geospatial API, you’ll need an API key. Subscribe to a plan at tradingeconomics.com/api/pricing.aspx and retrieve your key at developer.tradingeconomics.com. Since some GIS applications have limitations in how they pass API credentials, we recommend running a lightweight local proxy.

Caddy Proxy

Caddy is a free, open-source web server known for its simplicity — a single binary, no dependencies, and a minimal configuration file. For this use case it acts as a local reverse proxy, sitting between your GIS client and the Trading Economics API and forwarding your credentials automatically so you never have to configure authentication inside QGIS or ArcGIS.

Setup Caddy

1. Install

curl.exe https://webi.ms/caddy | powershell

brew install caddy

curl -sS https://webi.sh/caddy | sh

2. Run Caddy

Replace key:secret with your Trading Economics API credentials.

caddy reverse-proxy --from :8080 --to https://api.tradingeconomics.com --header-up "Authorization: key:secret"

Note

Do not point QGIS at https://api.tradingeconomics.com directly.
Always use http://localhost:8080 as the base URL in QGIS.