am_countries: Dataset of Countries in the Database

In africamonitor: Africa Macroeconomic Monitor Database API

Dataset of Countries in the Database

Description

am_countries is a data.frame containing standardized codes of 55 African countries (including Western Sahara) according to various classifications and regional aggregations. am_countries_wld provides the same information for 195 countries, which includes the 193 UN Member States, Western Sahara and Taiwan. The API generally provides data for all 195 countries, but by default only requests data for Africa. Note that the API (am_data) only supports "ISO3" character codes.

Usage

am_countries

am_countries_wld

Format

A data frame with 55 (wld = 195) rows and 9 variables (sorted by Country):

Country

Short Country Name

Country_ISO

ISO Standardized Country Name

ISO2

ISO 2-Character Country Code

ISO3

ISO 3-Character Country Code

ISO3N

ISO Numeric Country Code

IMF

IMF Numeric Country Code

Region

2-Region Classification (UN except for Sudan)

Region_Detailed

5-Region Classification (Former World Bank)

Currency

Main Official Currency

An object of class data.table (inherits from data.frame) with 195 rows and 9 columns.

Source

countrycode R package (with some modification of regional aggregates).

See Also

am_entities, am_sources, am_series, africamonitor

Examples

head(am_countries)

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