BrazilDataAPI: Access Brazilian Data via APIs and Curated Datasets"

In BrazilDataAPI: Access Brazilian Data via APIs and Curated Datasets

knitr::opts_chunk$set(
  collapse = TRUE,
  comment = "#>"
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library(BrazilDataAPI)
library(ggplot2)
library(dplyr)

Introduction

The BrazilDataAPI package provides a unified interface to access open data from the BrasilAPI, REST Countries API, Nager.Date API, and World Bank API, with a focus on Brazil. It allows users to easily retrieve up-to-date information on postal codes, banks, economic indicators, holidays, company registrations, international country-level data, public holidays information, and economic development data relevant to Brazil.

In addition to API-access functions, the package includes a collection of curated datasets related to Brazil, covering diverse domains such as demographics (male and female population by state and year), river levels in Manaus, environmental emission factors in São Paulo, Brazilian film festivals, and historical yellow fever outbreaks.

BrazilDataAPI is designed to support research, teaching, and data analysis focused on Brazil by integrating public RESTful APIs with high-quality, domain-specific datasets from multiple domains into a single, easy-to-use R package.

Functions for BrazilDataAPI

The BrazilDataAPI package provides several core functions to access real-time and structured information about Brazil from public APIs such as BrasilAPI, REST Countries, Nager.Date API, and World Bank API. Below is a list of the main functions included in the package:

• get_brazil_banks(): Get List of Banks in Brazil

• get_brazil_cep(): Get Address Information by Brazilian CEP (Postal Code) Example: get_brazil_cep("89010025")

• get_brazil_cnpj(): Get Company Information by CNPJ (Brazil) Example: get_brazil_cnpj("19131243000197")

• get_brazil_municipalities(): Get Municipalities of a Brazilian State from IBGE Example: get_brazil_municipalities("SP")

• get_brazil_rate_name(): Get Specific Brazilian Economic Rate by Name Example: get_brazil_rate_name("CDI")

• get_brazil_rates(): Get Official Interest Rates and Indexes from Brazil

• get_brazil_vehicle_brands(): Get Vehicle Brands from BrasilAPI (FIPE Data) Example: get_brazil_vehicle_brands("motos"),get_brazil_vehicle_brands("caminhoes")

• get_country_info_br(): Get key country information for Brazil.

• get_brazil_child_mortality(): Get Brazil’s Under-5 Mortality Rate data from the World Bank.

• get_brazil_cpi(): Get Brazil’s Consumer Price Index (2010 = 100) data from the World Bank.

• get_brazil_energy_use(): Get Brazil’s Energy Use (kg of oil equivalent per capita) data from the World Bank.

• get_brazil_gdp(): Get Brazil’s GDP (current US$) data from the World Bank.

• get_brazil_hospital_beds(): Get Brazil’s Hospital Beds (per 1,000 people) data from the World Bank.

• get_brazil_life_expectancy(): Get Brazil’s Life Expectancy at Birth data from the World Bank.

• get_brazil_literacy_rate(): Get Brazil’s Adult Literacy Rate data from the World Bank.

• get_brazil_population(): Get Brazil’s Total Population data from the World Bank.

• get_brazil_unemployment(): Get Brazil’s Total Unemployment Rate data from the World Bank.

• get_brazil_holidays(): Get official public holidays in Brazil for a given year, e.g., get_brazil_holidays(2025).

• view_datasets_BrazilDataAPI(): Lists all curated datasets included in the BrazilDataAPI package

These functions allow users to access high-quality and structured information on Brazil, which can be combined with tools like dplyr, tidyr, and ggplot2 to support a wide range of data analysis and visualization tasks. In the following sections, you’ll find examples on how to work with BrazilDataAPI in practical scenarios.

List official interest rates and indexes from the BrasilAPI

# Retrieves official interest rates and indexes from the BrazilAPI

brazil_rates_001 <- get_brazil_rates()

print(brazil_rates_001)

Get Vehicle Brands from BrasilAPI (FIPE Data)

# A string indicating the type of vehicle. Must be one of "carros", "motos", or "caminhoes".

brazil_vehicles <- get_brazil_vehicle_brands("motos")

print(brazil_vehicles)

Get Municipalities of a Brazilian State

# A two-letter string representing the Brazilian state abbreviation (e.g., "SP", "RJ", "BA").

brazil_Municipalities <- get_brazil_municipalities("SP")

print(brazil_Municipalities)

Brazil's GDP (Current US$) from World Bank 2022 - 2017

brazil_gdp <- head(get_brazil_gdp())

print(brazil_gdp)

Brazil's Life Expectancy at Birth from World Bank 2022 - 2017

brazil_life_expectancy <- head(get_brazil_life_expectancy())

print(brazil_life_expectancy)

Female Deaths by Age Group in Brazil

# Summarize total deaths by age and year
df_plot <- Brasil_females_df %>%
  group_by(year1, age) %>%
  summarise(total_deaths = sum(deaths, na.rm = TRUE), .groups = "drop")

# Plot: Deaths by age group over time
ggplot(df_plot, aes(x = age, y = total_deaths, color = as.factor(year1))) +
  geom_line(size = 1) +
  labs(
    title = "Female Deaths by Age Group in Brazil",
    subtitle = "Aggregated by year (year1)",
    x = "Age",
    y = "Number of Deaths",
    color = "Year"
  ) +
  theme_minimal() +
  theme(
    plot.title = element_text(face = "bold", size = 14),
    legend.position = "bottom"
  )

Dataset Suffixes

Each dataset in BrazilDataAPI is labeled with a suffix to indicate its structure and type:

• _df: A standard data frame.

• _ts: A time series object.

• _list: A list object.

Datasets Included in BrazilDataAPI

In addition to API access functions, BrazilDataAPI provides several preloaded datasets offering insights into Brazil's demographic structure, environmental conditions, cultural events, and public health records. Here are some featured examples:

• Brasil_females_df: Brazilian Female Demographics & Mortality A data frame containing population counts and mortality information for females in Brazil, disaggregated by federal states and abridged age groups, for the years 1991 and 2000.

• manaus_ts: Monthly Average Heights of the Rio Negro at Manaus A univariate time series of monthly average river heights of the Rio Negro at Manaus. The series contains 1080 observations spanning 90 years, from January 1903 to December 1992.

• Yellow_Fever_list: Yellow Fever Outbreak in Brazil A list object containing information on the flow of Yellow Fever cases between five Brazilian states during the outbreak period from December 2016 to May 2017.

Conclusion

The BrazilDataAPI package provides a robust set of tools to access open data about Brazil through RESTful APIs and curated datasets. It includes functions to retrieve information about postal codes, banks, economic rates, company registrations, and holidays via the BrasilAPI, international country indicators through the REST Countries API, public holidays information through the Nager.Date API, and economic development data through the World Bank API. Additionally, it offers preloaded datasets on Brazil's male and female population by state and year, film festivals, São Paulo's emission factors, river data from Manaus, and records of yellow fever outbreaks.

BrazilDataAPI documentation built on Sept. 15, 2025, 9:09 a.m.