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World Bank source data

Source: R/indicators.R
wb_source.Rd

List all sources supported by the World Bank API.

Usage

wb_source(source = NULL, lang = "en")

Source

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

Arguments

source

(NULL | character())
Source to query. Default NULL. If NULL, all sources are returned.

lang

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

Value

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

id

The source ID.

last_updated

The date the source was last updated.

name

The source name.

code

The source code.

description

The source description.

url

The source URL.

data_availability

Whether the source has data available.

metadata_availability

Whether the source has metadata available.

concepts

The concepts associated with the source.

See also

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

Examples

src <- wb_source()
head(src)
#>   id last_updated                              name code description  url
#> 1  1   2021-08-18                    Doing Business  DBS        <NA> <NA>
#> 2  2   2025-07-01      World Development Indicators  WDI        <NA> <NA>
#> 3  3   2024-11-05   Worldwide Governance Indicators  WGI        <NA> <NA>
#> 4  5   2016-03-21 Subnational Malnutrition Database  SNM        <NA> <NA>
#> 5  6   2025-02-26     International Debt Statistics  IDS        <NA> <NA>
#> 6 11   2013-02-22     Africa Development Indicators  ADI        <NA> <NA>
#>   data_availability metadata_availability concepts
#> 1              TRUE                  TRUE        3
#> 2              TRUE                  TRUE        3
#> 3              TRUE                  TRUE        3
#> 4              TRUE                  TRUE        3
#> 5              TRUE                  TRUE        4
#> 6              TRUE                  TRUE        3