Big Mac Index

liveEconomicsGeography

big-mac-index — The Economist's Big Mac index: what a Big Mac costs in each country, in local currency and in dollars, and how far each currency is over- or under-valued against the dollar, euro, pound, yen and yuan by burgernomics (raw) and after adjusting for GDP per person (adjusted). 2000 to the latest release, twice a year since 2011.

2tools
0msauth
free tier50 calls/day

Tools

big_mac_index

The Economist Big Mac index for a country: the local Big Mac price, the dollar exchange rate, the dollar price, and the

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big_mac_valuation

Rank every currency in a Big Mac index release by how over- or under-valued it is against a base currency (USD, EUR, GBP,

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Test with curl

The gateway speaks JSON-RPC 2.0 over HTTP POST. You can test any pack directly from the terminal.

List available tools
bash
curl -X POST https://gateway.pipeworx.io/big-mac-index/mcp \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"jsonrpc":"2.0","id":1,"method":"tools/list"}'
Call a tool
bash
curl -X POST https://gateway.pipeworx.io/big-mac-index/mcp \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"jsonrpc":"2.0","id":2,"method":"tools/call","params":{"name":"big_mac_index","arguments":{}}}'

Use with the SDK

Install @pipeworx/sdk to call tools from any TypeScript/Node project.

TypeScript
import { Pipeworx } from '@pipeworx/sdk';
const px = new Pipeworx();
const result = await px.call("big_mac_index", {});
ask_pipeworx
// Or ask in plain English:
const answer = await px.ask("big-mac-index — the economist's big mac index: what a big mac costs in each country, in local currency and in dollars, and how far each currency is over- or under-valued against the dollar, euro, pound, yen and yuan by burgernomics (raw) and after adjusting for gdp per person (adjusted)");