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UNESCO UIS — Education, Science & Culture Statistics (provenance First)

Query UNESCO UIS education, science, culture and communication statistics with indicator search, raw data, geography lookup and provenance.

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Install UNESCO UIS — Education, Science & Culture Statistics (provenance First)

Pick your client, then add it in one click or paste the config.

STDIONode.js
~/Library/Application Support/Claude/claude_desktop_config.json
claude_desktop_config.json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "unesco-uis-education-science-culture-statistics-provenance-first": {
      "command": "npx",
      "args": [
        "-y",
        "uis-mcp-server"
      ]
    }
  }
}

Settings → Developer → Edit Config, merge this into mcpServers, then fully quit and reopen Claude Desktop.

Install not yet sandbox-tested— the server itself is confirmed live (we called its tools/list endpoint). The stdio install command is a separate, ongoing check.

Overview

UNESCO UIS — Education, Science & Culture Statistics (provenance-first) connects MCP clients to the UNESCO Institute for Statistics catalogue and Data API. It provides indicator discovery, geographic-code lookup, raw statistical records, and OpenAI Deep Research-compatible search and fetch tools. Responses include source and release details, while queries can use English or Portuguese and common alternative wording. Reach for it when an assistant needs auditable UIS figures by indicator, geography and year rather than transformed analysis or bulk datasets.

Use cases

  • Find UIS indicators for education, science, R&D or culture topics
  • Retrieve country or regional statistics for selected years
  • Check valid UIS geographic codes before requesting data
  • Trace reported figures to their UIS release and source
  • Prepare catalogue documents for OpenAI Deep Research workflows

Key features

  • Searches roughly 5,000 UIS indicators
  • Retrieves raw records by indicator, geography and year
  • Includes data-release and source provenance
  • Resolves common English and Portuguese terminology
  • Supports Streamable HTTP without an API key
  • Provides OpenAI Deep Research search and fetch tools

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How UNESCO UIS — Education, Science & Culture Statistics (provenance First) works

What UNESCO UIS — Education, Science & Culture Statistics (provenance-first) does

UNESCO UIS — Education, Science & Culture Statistics (provenance-first) exposes the UNESCO Institute for Statistics catalogue and public Data API through MCP. Its coverage includes education, science and research and development, culture, communication, and related demographic context. The catalogue contains roughly 5,000 indicators, including enrolment, completion, literacy, teachers, education expenditure, researchers and R&D expenditure.

The service is read-only and idempotent. It is an independent community project rather than an official UNESCO or UIS service. Data responses carry provenance information such as the source URL, UIS data release, retrieval time, licence and citation.

How it works

A typical workflow starts by searching the indicator catalogue, then resolving the relevant geographic codes before requesting records. Indicator searches match all supplied terms, ignore case and accents, and accept Portuguese or English input. Common everyday and US terms can be mapped to UIS vocabulary, with those substitutions reported in vocabulary_notes.

Data requests accept up to 25 indicator codes, geographic-unit codes and a year range. Broad selections are rejected with a record count so the request can be narrowed by geography or time. Returned values are raw UIS records: the server does not aggregate, convert or otherwise transform them. Release information appears in data_vintage, while flags such as not applicable, withheld, national estimate or UIS estimate are described through magnitude and qualifier.

Setup and configuration

The hosted service runs on Cloudflare Workers and uses Streamable HTTP, so a client can connect to the remote MCP endpoint without installing a package, creating an account or supplying an API key. It calls the official UIS Data API for live data requests, while the catalogue is cached in memory. Configure the endpoint in an MCP client that supports Streamable HTTP.

Tools and capabilities

  • uis_search_indicators searches the UIS indicator catalogue and returns matching codes, availability years and record counts. It searches metadata, not statistical values.
  • uis_list_geo_units lists the 462 valid countries and regional aggregates, with filtering by name, code and type.
  • uis_get_data retrieves records by indicator, geography and year, optionally including per-record footnotes. Invalid codes produce the UIS API error; valid selections with no observations return zero rows, and partially valid requests include warnings.
  • search returns up to 10 relevant catalogue documents as identifiers, titles and URLs.
  • fetch reads a document only when given an identifier returned by search, returning readable Markdown and citation metadata. Together, search and fetch satisfy the OpenAI Deep Research tool contract.

Limitations and notes

The uis_* tools are the appropriate path for actual values, series and rankings; search and fetch index catalogue documents instead. The UIS does not publish a dedicated unit field, so units often need to be interpreted from the indicator name. Parentheses in a name can also describe a parity index, estimate type or education level.

A new UIS release may revise historical values. The server does not provide labour statistics; those belong to the companion ILOSTAT MCP server. Data remain subject to UNESCO-UIS attribution terms, including CC BY-SA 4.0 as identified by the project.

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Frequently Asked Questions about UNESCO UIS — Education, Science & Culture Statistics (provenance First)

UNESCO UIS — Education, Science & Culture Statistics (provenance-first) is an MCP server that connects clients to the UNESCO Institute for Statistics catalogue and public Data API. Its main tools search indicators, list geographic units, retrieve raw records, and support document search and fetching for OpenAI Deep Research workflows.

No installation is required. Connect an MCP client that supports Streamable HTTP to the hosted endpoint; the service requires no account and no API key. It runs remotely on Cloudflare Workers and accesses the public UIS Data API.

Use `uis_search_indicators` to find indicator codes, `uis_list_geo_units` to resolve country or regional codes, and `uis_get_data` to request records for the desired year range. The data tool returns raw UIS values with provenance and can include record-level footnotes.

Start with two or three words and remove terms if necessary. Searches require every supplied term to match, although common wording such as enrollment, spending, preschool and graduation is mapped to UIS terms. The response can explain substitutions in `vocabulary_notes` and provide a hint for zero-result searches.

Yes. Cursor is named as a supported use case for the hosted MCP service. Configure its remote Streamable HTTP connection to the server endpoint; no local installation, account or API key is required.

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