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UNESCO UIS Education Statistics MCP Server

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UNESCO UIS Education Statistics MCP is answering right now. Last checked 2 min ago. 441 installs a week from npm. It exposes 5 tools. Last commit 28 Oct 2026.

UNESCO UIS statistics (education, science, culture) with full provenance and fixed releases.

Installs per day peak 468 · avg 46 · +27% w/w
a month agotoday
Uptime history 86 days of history · worst day 92%
86 days agonow
100.0%
Uptime 24h
92 of 92 checks
5
Tools
read from the server
242 ms
Response time
average over 24h
441
Installs / week
npm and PyPI

What changed 36

Every tool that appeared, vanished or quietly changed what it asks for. Recorded since 3 September 2026. No other catalogue keeps this.

28 Oct a tool changed version2 times that day
16 Oct a tool description was rewritten2 times that day uis_get_data
16 Oct a tool changed version2 times that day
13 Oct a tool changed version
9 Oct a tool changed version
8 Oct a tool changed version3 times that day
8 Oct a tool description was rewritten uis_get_data
7 Oct a tool changed version
6 Oct a tool changed version
2 Oct a tool changed version3 times that day
and 26 more, back to 3 September 2026

UNESCO UIS Education Statistics MCP missed one check this week

Everything else answered, so this is steady rather than shaky. We check every 15 minutes, which is how a one-off gets told apart from the start of a pattern, and how you hear about the next one within the hour instead of from your users.

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Connect this server

Endpoint below is the one we actually reach during checks — not the one copied from a README. Last verified 2 min ago.

run in your terminal
claude mcp add uis-mcp-server --transport http https://uis.sidneybissoli.com/mcp
Settings → Connectors → Add custom connector, then paste this address
https://uis.sidneybissoli.com/mcp
~/.codex/config.toml
[mcp_servers.uis-mcp-server]
url = "https://uis.sidneybissoli.com/mcp"
.cursor/mcp.json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "uis-mcp-server": {
      "url": "https://uis.sidneybissoli.com/mcp"
    }
  }
}
.vscode/mcp.json
{
  "servers": {
    "uis-mcp-server": {
      "type": "http",
      "url": "https://uis.sidneybissoli.com/mcp"
    }
  }
}

Available tools 5

Read directly from the server with tools/list, grouped by what they act on. If a tool disappears, we record the date.

uis
uis_get_data
Statistical records from the UNESCO Institute for Statistics Data API, filtered by indicator codes (from uis_search_indicators, up to 25), geo unit codes (from uis_list_geo_units) and year range. Set include_footnotes for per-record source notes. Returns raw UIS records only — it does not aggregate, convert or otherwise transform values; ILO labour statistics live in the sibling ILOSTAT MCP server. Broad queries are rejected with the record count — narrow by geo unit or years. A code that does not exist is an error carrying the UIS API's own wording, never an empty result: zero rows means the codes are real and the selection has no data, and the hint then relays what the UIS reported (including the indicator's available year range). When only SOME of the requested codes exist, the matching rows are returned with `warnings` naming the rest. Values are those of the release named in data_vintage: a new UIS release can revise past years. On a record, `magnitude` says what the value shown means (e.g. NA = not applicable, shown as 0; SUPP = withheld, blank) and `qualifier` says how it was obtained (national or UIS estimate); the provenance notices count them in plain words; both are null when the UIS publishes no flag. The UIS publishes no unit field: the unit usually closes the indicator name in parentheses ("(%)", "(number)", "(years)"), but not always — a parenthesis can also name a parity index (GPIA), an estimate type or an education level, and some names have none.
uis_list_geo_units
Valid geographic codes for uis_get_data: 462 geo units — countries (NATIONAL, ISO alpha-3 codes like BRA) and regional aggregates (REGIONAL). Filter by name/code and type. Does not return statistical values; these codes apply only to uis_get_data, not to other statistical servers.
uis_search_indicators
Search the UNESCO Institute for Statistics catalogue of ~5,000 indicators — education, science/R&D, culture and communication — by keywords in the name or code, optionally filtered by theme. All terms must match (AND, case-insensitive), so start with 2–3 words and drop terms if you get 0 results. Everyday and US wording is resolved to the UIS's own (enrollment→enrolment, spending→expenditure, preschool→pre-primary, university→tertiary, graduation→completion, girls/boys→female/male); when that happens the response says so in vocabulary_notes. Returns indicator codes to use with uis_get_data, plus each indicator's data availability (years, record count). Searches the catalogue only — it does not return statistical values (use uis_get_data); ILO labour statistics live in the sibling ILOSTAT MCP server.
fetch
fetch
Returns the full document for an id obtained from `search`, as { id, title, text, url, metadata }: `text` is the readable content (Markdown) and `url` the canonical public page to cite. Companion of `search` in the OpenAI Deep Research contract, over the UNESCO UIS statistics (≈5,000 indicators: education — enrolment, completion, literacy, teachers, spending, SDG 4 —, science/R&D (SDG 9.5), culture (SDG 11.4) and demographic context) catalog. Only ids returned by `search` are valid; an unknown id returns an error. The `uis_*` tools remain the tools for data queries. Behavior: read-only and idempotent — a live GET against the public source when the document needs it.
search
search
Searches the UNESCO UIS statistics (≈5,000 indicators: education — enrolment, completion, literacy, teachers, spending, SDG 4 —, science/R&D (SDG 9.5), culture (SDG 11.4) and demographic context) catalog and returns up to 10 matching documents as { id, title, url }, ordered by relevance (an empty list means nothing matched). This tool exists for the OpenAI Deep Research contract: ChatGPT deep research, company knowledge and research workflows over the Responses API require exactly the tools `search` and `fetch`. Pass one of the returned ids to `fetch` to read the document. For direct questions and for data (values, series, rankings) prefer the `uis_*` tools, which return the actual data with provenance — this is a catalog index, not a data query. Query: natural language or keywords, Portuguese or English; accents and case are ignored. Behavior: read-only and idempotent — the catalog comes from the public source and is cached in memory.

Endpoints

URLTransportStateLatencyChecked
https://uis.sidneybissoli.com/mcp streamable-http answering 190 ms 2 min ago

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UNESCO UIS Education Statistics MCP — questions

Answers built from our own checks of this server.

What can UNESCO UIS Education Statistics MCP do?
It exposes 5 tools, read directly from the server on our last check. Among them: fetch, search, uis_get_data, uis_list_geo_units, uis_search_indicators. The full list with descriptions is on this page — we take it from the server itself via tools/list, not from a README. How MCP servers expose tools in the first place →
Is UNESCO UIS Education Statistics MCP working right now?
We send a real MCP handshake every 15 minutes. Over the last 24 hours 92 of 92 checks got a reply (100.0%), average response time 242 ms. The bar chart above shows every period we have measured.
How do I connect UNESCO UIS Education Statistics MCP?
Copy the ready config from this page. We generate it for Claude Code, Claude Desktop, Codex, Cursor and VS Code, each in the form that client actually reads. It is a remote server, so there is nothing to install — the client connects to the address.
Does UNESCO UIS Education Statistics MCP need an API key?
No. UNESCO UIS Education Statistics MCP completed a full MCP handshake with us as an anonymous client and listed its tools without asking for anything. All 5 of them are readable on this page. This is what we observed, not what the docs claim.
How fast is UNESCO UIS Education Statistics MCP?
It answers our handshake in 242 ms on average, which is faster than 59% of all working MCP servers we measure. The comparison comes from our own checks across the whole registry, every 15 minutes.
How many people use UNESCO UIS Education Statistics MCP?
The npm package uis-mcp-server was installed 441 times in the last week. Week over week that is +27%. We show installs rather than GitHub stars on purpose: a star is a bookmark, an install is someone actually running it.
Is UNESCO UIS Education Statistics MCP open source?
The code is open source: it is published under the MIT licence, written in TypeScript and 1 stars on GitHub. The licence covers the code in the repository, not the hosted service at uis.sidneybissoli.com, which runs on its operator's own terms.