am_countries {africamonitor} | R Documentation |
Dataset of Countries in the Database
Description
am_countries
is a data.frame containing standardized codes of 55 African countries
(including Western Sahara) according to various classifications
and regional aggregations. am_countries_wld
provides the same information for 195
countries, which includes the 193 UN Member States, Western Sahara and Taiwan. The API
generally provides data for all 195 countries, but by default only requests data for Africa.
Note that the API (am_data
) only supports "ISO3" character codes.
Usage
am_countries
am_countries_wld
Format
A data frame with 55 (wld = 195) rows and 9 variables (sorted by Country):
- Country
Short Country Name
- Country_ISO
ISO Standardized Country Name
- ISO2
ISO 2-Character Country Code
- ISO3
ISO 3-Character Country Code
- ISO3N
ISO Numeric Country Code
- IMF
IMF Numeric Country Code
- Region
2-Region Classification (UN except for Sudan)
- Region_Detailed
5-Region Classification (Former World Bank)
- Currency
Main Official Currency
An object of class data.table
(inherits from data.frame
) with 195 rows and 9 columns.
Source
countrycode R package (with some modification of regional aggregates).
See Also
am_entities
, am_sources
, am_series
, africamonitor
Examples
head(am_countries)