codelist: Country Code Translation Data Frame (Cross-Sectional)

In vincentarelbundock/countrycode: Convert Country Names and Country Codes

Country Code Translation Data Frame (Cross-Sectional)

Description

A data frame used internally by the countrycode() function. countrycode can use any valid code as destination, but only some codes can be used as origin.

Format

A data frame with codes as columns.

Details

Origin and Destination

• cctld: IANA country code top-level domain

• country.name.en: country name (English)

• country.name.de: country name (German)

• country.name.fr: country name (French)

• country.name.it: country name (Italian)

• cowc: Correlates of War character

• cown: Correlates of War numeric

• dhs: Demographic and Health Surveys Program

• ecb: European Central Bank

• eurostat: Eurostat

• fao: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations numerical code

• fips: FIPS 10-4 (Federal Information Processing Standard)

• gaul: Global Administrative Unit Layers

• genc2c: GENC 2-letter code

• genc3c: GENC 3-letter code

• genc3n: GENC numeric code

• gwc: Gleditsch & Ward character

• gwn: Gleditsch & Ward numeric

• imf: International Monetary Fund (Warning: The IMF generally uses ISO codes. These codes are WEO-related, but may be inconsistently used in the wild.)

• ioc: International Olympic Committee

• iso2c: ISO-2 character

• iso3c: ISO-3 character

• iso3n: ISO-3 numeric

• p5n: Polity V numeric country code

• p5c: Polity V character country code

• p4n: Polity IV numeric country code

• p4c: Polity IV character country code

• un: United Nations M49 numeric codes

• unicode.symbol: Region subtag (often displayed as emoji flag)

• unhcr: United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees

• unpd: United Nations Procurement Division

• vdem: Varieties of Democracy (V-Dem version 8, April 2018)

• wb: World Bank (very similar but not identical to iso3c)

• wvs: World Values Survey numeric code

Destination only

• ⁠cldr.*⁠: 600+ country name variants from the UNICODE CLDR project (e.g., "cldr.short.en"). Inspect the cldr_examples data.frame for a full list of available country names and examples.

• ar5: IPCC's regional mapping used both in the Fifth Assessment Report (AR5) and for the Reference Concentration Pathways (RCP)

• continent: Continent as defined in the World Bank Development Indicators

• cow.name: Correlates of War country name

• currency: ISO 4217 currency name

• eurocontrol_pru: European Organisation for the Safety of Air Navigation

• eurocontrol_statfor: European Organisation for the Safety of Air Navigation

• eu28: Member states of the European Union (as of December 2015), without special territories

• icao.region: International Civil Aviation Organization region

• iso.name.en: ISO English short name

• iso.name.fr: ISO French short name

• iso4217c: ISO 4217 currency alphabetic code

• iso4217n: ISO 4217 currency numeric code

• p4.name: Polity IV country name

• region: 7 Regions as defined in the World Bank Development Indicators

• region23: 23 Regions as used to be in the World Bank Development Indicators (legacy)

• un.name.ar: United Nations Arabic country name

• un.name.en: United Nations English country name

• un.name.es: United Nations Spanish country name

• un.name.fr: United Nations French country name

• un.name.ru: United Nations Russian country name

• un.name.zh: United Nations Chinese country name

• un.region.name: United Nations region name

• un.region.code: United Nations region code

• un.regionintermediate.name: United Nations intermediate region name

• un.regionintermediate.code: United Nations intermediate region code

• un.regionsub.name: United Nations sub-region name

• un.regionsub.code: United Nations sub-region code

• unhcr.region: United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees region name

• wvs.name: World Values Survey numeric code country name

Note

The Correlates of War (cow) and Polity 4 (p4) project produce codes in country year format. Some countries go through political transitions that justify changing codes over time. When building a purely cross-sectional conversion dictionary, this forces us to make arbitrary choices with respect to some entities (e.g., Western Germany, Vietnam, Serbia). countrycode includes a reconciled dataset in panel format, codelist_panel. Instead of converting code, we recommend that users dealing with panel data "left-merge" their data into this panel dictionary.

vincentarelbundock/countrycode documentation built on April 13, 2025, 7:52 p.m.