country: Countries

In fishstat: Global Fishery and Aquaculture Statistics

Countries

Description

Countries and various territories, defined by FAO (2025).

Usage

country

Format

Data frame containing eight columns:

country	country code
country_name	country name
iso2	ISO 2-alpha code
iso3	ISO 3-alpha code
continent	continent
georegion	geographic region
ecoclass	economic class
official	official country name

Details

This data frame contains the full set of 275 data records from the FishStat Country Groups data table. Column names have been simplified to facilitate quick exploration and plotting in R.

Source

FAO (2025). Global Production. Fisheries and Aquaculture Division. Rome.

https://www.fao.org/fishery/en/collection/global_production

See Also

aquaculture and capture data are also available in a combined production format.

area, country, environment, measure, source, species, and status are lookup tables.

fishstat-package gives an overview of the package.

Examples

head(country)

# Regions within continents
table(country$georegion, country$continent)

# Select country entries that have non-zero production
nonzero <- unique(production$country[production$value > 0])
country.nz <- country[country$country %in% nonzero,]
length(country.nz$country)

# Only country and country_name are always defined
cbind(sapply(country, function(x) all(x != "")))

# Columns defined for non-zero production
cbind(sapply(country.nz, function(x) all(x != "")))

# Economic class levels
sort(unique(country$ecoclass))

# Examine individual countries
print.simple.list(country[country$iso2 == "IS",])
print.simple.list(country[country$country_name == "Samoa",])

fishstat documentation built on June 17, 2025, 9:08 a.m.