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List all countries supported by the World Bank API.

Usage

wb_country(country = NULL, lang = "en")

Arguments

country

(NULL | character())
Country to query. Default NULL. If NULL, all countries are returned.

lang

(character(1))
Language to query. Default "en".

Value

A data.frame() with the available countries. The columns are:

country_id

The country ID.

country_code

The country code.

country_name

The country name.

region_id

The region ID.

region_code

The region code.

region_value

The region value.

admin_region_id

The admin region ID.

admin_region_code

The admin region code.

admin_region_value

The admin region value.

income_level_id

The income level ID.

income_level_code

The income level code.

income_level_value

The income level value.

lending_type_id

The lending type ID.

lending_type_code

The lending type code.

lending_type_value

The lending type value.

capital_city

The capital city.

longitude

The longitude.

latitude

The latitude.

See also

Examples

country <- wb_country()
head(country)
#>   country_id country_code                country_name region_id region_code
#> 1        ABW           AW                       Aruba       LCN          ZJ
#> 2        AFE           ZH Africa Eastern and Southern        NA          NA
#> 3        AFG           AF                 Afghanistan       MEA          ZQ
#> 4        AFR           A9                      Africa        NA          NA
#> 5        AFW           ZI  Africa Western and Central        NA          NA
#> 6        AGO           AO                      Angola       SSF          ZG
#>                                        region_value admin_region_id
#> 1                         Latin America & Caribbean            <NA>
#> 2                                        Aggregates            <NA>
#> 3 Middle East, North Africa, Afghanistan & Pakistan             MNA
#> 4                                        Aggregates            <NA>
#> 5                                        Aggregates            <NA>
#> 6                                Sub-Saharan Africa             SSA
#>   admin_region_code
#> 1              <NA>
#> 2              <NA>
#> 3                XQ
#> 4              <NA>
#> 5              <NA>
#> 6                ZF
#>                                                          admin_region_value
#> 1                                                                      <NA>
#> 2                                                                      <NA>
#> 3 Middle East, North Africa, Afghanistan & Pakistan (excluding high income)
#> 4                                                                      <NA>
#> 5                                                                      <NA>
#> 6                                Sub-Saharan Africa (excluding high income)
#>   income_level_id income_level_code  income_level_value lending_type_id
#> 1             HIC                XD         High income             LNX
#> 2              NA                NA          Aggregates            <NA>
#> 3             LIC                XM          Low income             IDX
#> 4              NA                NA          Aggregates            <NA>
#> 5              NA                NA          Aggregates            <NA>
#> 6             LMC                XN Lower middle income             IBD
#>   lending_type_code lending_type_value capital_city longitude latitude
#> 1                XX     Not classified   Oranjestad  -70.0167 12.51670
#> 2              <NA>         Aggregates         <NA>        NA       NA
#> 3                XI                IDA        Kabul   69.1761 34.52280
#> 4              <NA>         Aggregates         <NA>        NA       NA
#> 5              <NA>         Aggregates         <NA>        NA       NA
#> 6                XF               IBRD       Luanda   13.2420 -8.81155