A data frame used internally by the countrycode() function. countrycode can use any valid code as destination, but only some codes can be used as origin.
A data frame with codes as columns.
cctld: IANA country code top-level domain
country.name: country name (English)
country.name.de: country name (German)
country.name.fr: country name (French)
country.name.it: country name (Italian)
cowc: Correlates of War character
cown: Correlates of War numeric
dhs: Demographic and Health Surveys Program
ecb: European Central Bank
eurostat: Eurostat
fao: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations numerical code
fips: FIPS 10-4 (Federal Information Processing Standard)
gaul: Global Administrative Unit Layers
genc2c: GENC 2-letter code
genc3c: GENC 3-letter code
genc3n: GENC numeric code
gwc: Gleditsch & Ward character
gwn: Gleditsch & Ward numeric
imf: International Monetary Fund
ioc: International Olympic Committee
iso2c: ISO-2 character
iso3c: ISO-3 character
iso3n: ISO-3 numeric
p5n: Polity V numeric country code
p5c: Polity V character country code
p4n: Polity IV numeric country code
p4c: Polity IV character country code
un: United Nations M49 numeric codes
unicode.symbol: Region subtag (often displayed as emoji flag)
unhcr: United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees
unpd: United Nations Procurement Division
vdem: Varieties of Democracy (V-Dem version 8, April 2018)
wb: World Bank (very similar but not identical to iso3c)
wvs: World Values Survey numeric code
cldr.*: 600+ country name variants from the UNICODE CLDR project (e.g., "cldr.short.en").
Inspect the cldr_examples data.frame for a full list of
available country names and examples.
ar5: IPCC's regional mapping used both in the Fifth Assessment Report
(AR5) and for the Reference Concentration Pathways (RCP)
continent: Continent as defined in the World Bank Development Indicators
cow.name: Correlates of War country name
currency: ISO 4217 currency name
eurocontrol_pru: European Organisation for the Safety of Air Navigation
eurocontrol_statfor: European Organisation for the Safety of Air Navigation
eu28: Member states of the European Union (as of December 2015),
without special territories
icao.region: International Civil Aviation Organization region
iso.name.en: ISO English short name
iso.name.fr: ISO French short name
iso4217c: ISO 4217 currency alphabetic code
iso4217n: ISO 4217 currency numeric code
p4.name: Polity IV country name
region: 7 Regions as defined in the World Bank Development Indicators
region23: 23 Regions as used to be in the World Bank Development Indicators (legacy)
un.name.ar: United Nations Arabic country name
un.name.en: United Nations English country name
un.name.es: United Nations Spanish country name
un.name.fr: United Nations French country name
un.name.ru: United Nations Russian country name
un.name.zh: United Nations Chinese country name
un.region.name: United Nations region name
un.region.code: United Nations region code
un.regionintermediate.name: United Nations intermediate region name
un.regionintermediate.code: United Nations intermediate region code
un.regionsub.name: United Nations sub-region name
un.regionsub.code: United Nations sub-region code
unhcr.region: United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees region name
wvs.name: World Values Survey numeric code country name
The Correlates of War (cow) and Polity 4 (p4) project produce codes in
country year format. Some countries go through political transitions that
justify changing codes over time. When building a purely cross-sectional
conversion dictionary, this forces us to make arbitrary choices with respect
to some entities (e.g., Western Germany, Vietnam, Serbia). countrycode
includes a reconciled dataset in panel format,
codelist_panel. Instead of converting code, we recommend
that users dealing with panel data "left-merge" their data into this panel
dictionary.