wb_country_indicator: World Bank country indicator data

In worldbank: Client for World Banks's 'Indicators' and 'Poverty and Inequality Platform (PIP)' APIs

World Bank country indicator data

Description

List all country indicators supported by the World Bank API.

Usage

wb_country_indicator(
  indicator = "NY.GDP.MKTP.CD",
  country = NULL,
  lang = "en",
  start_date = NULL,
  end_date = NULL
)

Arguments

indicator	(character()) indicators to query.
country	(character()) countries to query. Default NULL. If NULL, all countries are returned.
lang	(character(1)) language to query. Default "en".
start_date	(character(1) | integer(1)) start date to query. Default NULL. Supported formats: YYYY for yearly data (e.g. 2020 or "2020") YYYYQ[1-4] for quarterly data (e.g. "2020Q1") YYYYM[1-12] for monthly data (e.g. "2020M02")
end_date	(character(1) | integer(1)) end date to query, in the same format as start_date. Default NULL.

Value

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

date	The date
indicator_id	The indicator ID.
indicator_name	The indicator name.
country_id	The country ID.
country_name	The country name.
country_code	The country code.
value	The indicator value.
unit	The indicator unit.
obs_status	The observation status.
decimal	The decimal.

Source

https://api.worldbank.org/v2/country/{country}/indicator/{indicator}

Examples

ind <- wb_country_indicator("NY.GDP.MKTP.CD", "US")
head(ind)
ind <- wb_country_indicator(
  indicator = c("NY.GDP.MKTP.CD", "FP.CPI.TOTL.ZG"),
  country = c("US", "DE", "FR", "CH", "JP"),
  start_date = 2015, end_date = 2023
)
head(ind)

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