Country Code Translation Data Frame (Cross-Sectional)

Description

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.

Details

Origin and Destination

• cctld: IANA country code top-level domain
• country.name.en: country name (English)
• country.name.de: country name (German)
• country.name.fr: country name (French)
• country.name.it: country name (Italian)
• country.name.es: country name (Spanish)
• 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 (Warning: The IMF generally uses ISO codes. These codes are WEO-related, but may be inconsistently used in the wild.)
• 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

Destination only

• 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
• eu27: Member states of the European Union (as of February 2020), 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)
• telephone: ITU-T E.164 country codes for telecommunication
• 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

Format

A data frame with codes as columns.

Note

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.