Download updated country and region information from World Bank API

Download updated information on available countries and regions from the World Bank API

wbcountries(lang = c("en", "es", "fr", "ar", "zh"))

Arguments

lang	Language in which to return the results. If lang is unspecified, english is the default.

Value

A data frame of available countries and regions with related information

Note

Not all data returns have support for langauges other than english. If the specific return does not support your requested language by default it will return NA. For an enumeration of supported languages by data source please see wbdatacatalog. The options for lang are:

• en: English

• es: Spanish

• fr: French

• ar: Arabic

• zh: Mandarin