readoecd (version 0.3.0)

get_oecd_current_account: Get OECD trade (balance of payments) data

Description

Downloads (and caches) annual current account balance data for OECD member countries from the OECD Balance of Payments (BOP) database.

Usage

get_oecd_current_account(countries = "all", start_year = 1990, refresh = FALSE)

Value

A data frame with columns:

country

ISO 3166-1 alpha-3 country code (character)

country_name

English country name (character)

year

Calendar year (integer)

series

"CURRENT_ACCOUNT" or "CURRENT_ACCOUNT_GOODS_SERVICES" (character)

value

Current account balance in millions USD (numeric)

unit

"Millions USD (exchange rate)" (character)

Arguments

countries

Character vector of ISO 3166-1 alpha-3 country codes, or "all" for all available OECD members. Defaults to "all". Run list_oecd_countries() to see available codes.

start_year

Numeric. Earliest year to include. Defaults to 1990.

refresh

Logical. If TRUE, re-download even if a cached copy exists. Defaults to FALSE.

Details

Returns the current account balance (credits minus debits) with the rest of the world, in millions of US dollars at current exchange rates. A positive value indicates a current account surplus; a negative value indicates a deficit.

Examples

# \donttest{
trade <- get_oecd_current_account(c("AUS", "DEU", "USA"), start_year = 2000)
head(trade)
# }