NEWS.md

In gpw13/whoville: Country Codes, Names, and Other Metadata from the WHO, UN and WB

whoville 0.1.7

• IHME's GBD codes and regional classifications added to allow conversion between ISO3 and GBD codes, as well as use of the GBD regions in analyses.

whoville 0.1.6

• Minor change to accommodate new formatting for the World Bank's historical classification by income for countries.

whoville 0.1.5

• Added UN intermediate regions, UN DESA regions and subregions, and SDG regions and subregions.

whoville 0.1.4

• Small island developing states (SIDS) and land-locked developing countries (LLDC) classifications added to countries.
• Additional alt names from official ISO3 short names added.

whoville 0.1.3

• UN region and subregion names added in for every language, which can be accessed using iso3_to_regions().
• OECD membership added, usable through is_oecd_member() and `oecd_member_states().
• GBD 2019 high-income countries added, usable through is_gbd_high_income() and gbd_high_income_states().
• UN least-developed country status added, usable through is_un_ldc() and un_ldcs().

whotilities 0.1.2

• Country data updated to use WHO xMart4 REF_MART data. This has created changes across all functions and in the package.
• WHO formal and short names now available in all languages
• Reduced the number of country codes available to ISO3, ISO2, ISO (numeric), WHO code, and M49
• Increased numbers of countries to 248
• Accessed World Bank Income Group data directly from World Bank website, now have income group classifications for 1987 - 2019 (corresponds to fiscal year 1989 - 2021)

whotilities 0.1.1

• Added a NEWS.md file to track changes to the package.
• Added who_member_states() to quickly extract ISO3 codes for all WHO member states

whotilities 0.1.0

• Initial release of package
• Publication of countries dataframe with codes, names, and regional categorizations
• Added functions to coerce names to codes (and vice-versa) released
• Added functions to get key country information using ISO3 codes

gpw13/whoville documentation built on Aug. 27, 2022, 7:07 p.m.