World Bank region data

List all regions supported by the World Bank API.

Usage

wb_region(region = NULL, lang = "en")

Source

https://api.worldbank.org/v2/region

Arguments

region

(NULL | character())
Region to query. Default NULL. If NULL, all regions are returned

lang

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

Value

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

id

The region ID.

code

The region code.

iso2code

The ISO 2 code of the region.

name

The region name.

See also

Other indicators data: wb_country(), wb_income_level(), wb_indicator(), wb_language(), wb_lending_type(), wb_source(), wb_topic()

Examples

region <- wb_region()
head(region)
#>   id code iso2code                                           name
#> 1 NA  AFE       ZH                    Africa Eastern and Southern
#> 2 NA  AFR       A9                                         Africa
#> 3 NA  AFW       ZI                     Africa Western and Central
#> 4 NA  ARB       1A                                     Arab World
#> 5 NA  CAA       C9        Sub-Saharan Africa (IFC classification)
#> 6 NA  CEA       C4 East Asia and the Pacific (IFC classification)