API to get the population by country

Question

Is there a free API to get the population of every country ?

I've searched on the World Bank Open Data but I didn't find the API for it.

Answer 1

Yes, the World Bank offers an API access for free, and you can retrieve this kind of data quite easily. The API documentation is available here: https://datahelpdesk.worldbank.org/knowledgebase/topics/125589

In the "API Basic Call Structures" section, they give a very simple example of how to get the population of all countries in the year 2000, in XML format:

http://api.worldbank.org/v2/country/all/indicator/SP.POP.TOTL?date=2000.

Don't forget to follow their recommendations when using the API: https://datahelpdesk.worldbank.org/knowledgebase/articles/902064-development-best-practices

Answer 2

Austrian non-profit population.io has an API link on its homepage but I haven't signed up for it and thus not used it.