WDI: World Development Indicators (World Bank)

Downloads the requested data by using the World Bank's API, parses the resulting XML file, and formats it in long country-year format.

WDI(
  country = "all",
  indicator = "NY.GDP.PCAP.KD",
  start = 1960,
  end = 2020,
  extra = FALSE,
  cache = NULL
)

Arguments

country	Vector of countries (ISO-2 character codes, e.g. "BR", "US", "CA") for which the data is needed. Using the string "all" instead of individual iso codes pulls data for every available country.
indicator	Character vector of indicators codes. See the WDIsearch() function. If you supply a named vector, the indicators will be automatically renamed: `c('women_private_sector' = 'BI.PWK.PRVS.FE.ZS')`
start	Start date, usually a year in integer format. Must be 1960 or greater.
end	End date, usually a year in integer format. Must be greater than the `start` argument.
extra	TRUE returns extra variables such as region, iso3c code, and incomeLevel
cache	NULL (optional) a list created by WDIcache() to be used with the extra=TRUE argument

Value

Data frame with country-year observations. You can extract a data.frame with indicator names and descriptive labels by inspecting the `label` attribute of the resulting data.frame: `attr(dat, 'label')`

Examples

if (FALSE) {

WDI(country="all", indicator=c("AG.AGR.TRAC.NO","TM.TAX.TCOM.BC.ZS"),
    start=1990, end=2000)
WDI(country=c("US","BR"), indicator="NY.GNS.ICTR.GN.ZS", start=1999, end=2000,
    extra=TRUE, cache=NULL)

# Rename indicators on the fly
WDI(country = 'CA', indicator = c('women_private_sector' = 'BI.PWK.PRVS.FE.ZS',
                                  'women_public_sector' = 'BI.PWK.PUBS.FE.ZS'))
}