If you've ever tried to get structured, current, programmatically accessible macroeconomic data for African countries, you've hit the same wall. Bloomberg has it — behind a $24,000/year terminal. The World Bank has it — with a 6 to 12 month lag. Everything else is either a manually updated HTML table on a central bank website, a PDF, or a JavaScript-rendered dashboard that blocks automated access.
That gap is disproportionately painful for the people who need it most: developers building African fintech products, researchers studying frontier markets, journalists covering economic crises as they happen, and AI agents that need structured data to reason about the world's fastest-growing economies.
So I built the infrastructure myself.
What I Built
A suite of Apify actors that pull macroeconomic data directly from the issuing source — central banks, national statistics offices, and multilateral institutions — and return clean, normalised, attributed JSON. No aggregators, no lagged annual releases, no guessing where the number came from.
