About Afriref: cited government reference data
Afriref is a fleet of seven remote MCP servers for official government reference data across 128 countries and the EU. It serves analysts and applications needing cited tax, economic, calendar, and employment figures, with source URLs and freshness metadata attached to each value.
Key features
- 01Official regional reference data
- 02Cited values with freshness metadata
- 03Tax and economic calculations
- 04Holiday and business-day tools
- 05Change tracking and alerts
Use cases
- 01Check country tax and VAT figures
- 02Calculate working days or settlement dates
- 03Verify source and update status
- 04Compare official economic series
MCP support
Exposes seven regional remote MCP servers over Streamable HTTP, with tools for retrieving cited series, calendars, changes, alerts, and computed answers.
Configuration
Remote servers need no local install. Pick your client, then copy the config or install in one click.
https://afriref.dev/mcpclaude mcp add --transport http dev-afriref-reference-data https://afriref.dev/mcp{"mcpServers":{"dev-afriref-reference-data":{"type":"http","url":"https://afriref.dev/mcp"}}}Open in Cursor{"servers":{"dev-afriref-reference-data":{"type":"http","url":"https://afriref.dev/mcp"}}}Open in VS Code{"mcpServers":{"dev-afriref-reference-data":{"type":"http","url":"https://afriref.dev/mcp"}}}{"mcpServers":{"dev-afriref-reference-data":{"serverUrl":"https://afriref.dev/mcp"}}}Run commands in a terminal; paste JSON into the client’s MCP config and restart. Servers that need sign-in will prompt on first connect.
Tools
22| Parameter | Type | Required | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| detail | boolean | No | Default false. Without country, false returns a compact index (country -> series ids). true returns the full catalog, which is large. |
| country | string | No | Optional ISO country code. Returns full per-series metadata (source, freshness, bands) for that country only. |
Details
The maintainer has not added details yet. Check the README in the repository.
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