hdr package
In hdr: Interface to the UNDR Human Development Report API

Introduction

The hdr package provides a complete interface to the United Nations Development Programme Human Development Report API. This data source includes a large amount of human development data, including all the series used to compute the Human Development Index (HDI), as well as the HDI itself.

Usage example

The package ships with a data frame with id and indicator names

library(hdr)

# Get a data frame with id and indicator names
head(hdr_indicators)

Get the Human Development Index for Germany in 2013:

hdi <- get_data(indicator = 137506, country = "DEU", year = 2013)
head(hdi)

Leave a dimension as NULL (default) to get all values for that dimension e.g. all countries and all year for a specific indicator:

df <- get_data(103606)
head(df)

Get the adolescent birth rate and a measure of female educaction for all years and all countries, and plot these against each other:

br <- get_data(c(24806, 36806), year = 2010:2013)

library(dplyr)
library(tidyr)

br <- br %>% 
  group_by(id, iso3c) %>% 
  summarise(mean_val = mean(value, na.rm = TRUE)) %>% 
  spread(id, mean_val) %>% 
  .[complete.cases(.), ] %>% 
  setNames(c("iso3c", "fem_ed", "birth_rate"))

library(ggplot2)

ggplot(br, aes(x = fem_ed, y = birth_rate, label = iso3c)) +
  geom_text(size = 3, alpha = 0.75) +
  geom_smooth() +
  theme_light(8) +
  labs(y = "\nAdolescent birth rate (women aged 15-19 years)",
       x = "Population with at least secondary education, female/male ratio\n",
       title = "Relationship between female education and adolescent birth rate (2010-2013 means)")