wb_country: World Bank country data

In worldbank: Client for the 'World Bank' APIs

World Bank country data

Description

List all countries supported by the World Bank API.

Usage

wb_country(country = NULL, lang = "en")

Arguments

country	(NULL | character()) Country to query. Default NULL. If NULL, all countries are returned.
lang	(character(1)) Language to query. Default "en".

Value

A data.frame() with the available countries. The columns are:

• country_id: The country ID.

• country_code: The country code.

• country_name: The country name.

• region_id: The region ID.

• region_code: The region code.

• region_value: The region value.

• admin_region_id: The admin region ID.

• admin_region_code: The admin region code.

• admin_region_value: The admin region value.

• income_level_id: The income level ID.

• income_level_code: The income level code.

• income_level_value: The income level value.

• lending_type_id: The lending type ID.

• lending_type_code: The lending type code.

• lending_type_value: The lending type value.

• capital_city: The capital city.

• longitude: The longitude.

• latitude: The latitude.

Source

https://api.worldbank.org/v2/country

See Also

Other indicators data: wb_income_level(), wb_indicator(), wb_language(), wb_lending_type(), wb_region(), wb_source(), wb_topic()

Examples

country <- wb_country()
head(country)

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