worldbank (version 0.6.0)

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

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.

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)