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owidapi

Retrieve data from the Our World in Data (OWID) Chart API. OWID provides public access to more than 5,000 charts focusing on global problems such as poverty, disease, hunger, climate change, war, existential risks, and inequality.

The package is part of the econdataverse family of packages aimed at helping economists and financial professionals work with sovereign-level economic data.

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install.packages('owidapi')

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0.1.1

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MIT + file LICENSE

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Maintainer

Christoph Scheuch

Last Published

June 23rd, 2025

Functions in owidapi (0.1.1)

owid_search

Search for keywords in OWID catalog data
owid_output

Create OWID chart output elements in Shiny
owid_get_catalog

Download data catalog of Our World in Data
owidapi-package

owidapi: Access the Our World in Data Chart API
owid_embed

Embed Our World in Data Chart in HTML
owid_get

Download data from Our World in Data
owid_get_metadata

Download metadata from Our World in Data