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.

Format

data frame with codes as columns

Details

Origin and Destination:

• ccTLD: IANA country code top-level domain

• country.name: country name (English)

• country.name.de: country name (German)

• 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

• 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)

• 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:

• 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

• wvs.name: World Values Survey numeric code country name

• cldr.*: 600+ country name variants from the UNICODE CLDR project. Inspect the 'countrycode::cldr_examples' data.frame for a full list of available country names and examples.

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: 'countrycode::countrycode_panel'. Instead of converting code, we recommend that users dealing with panel data "left-merge" their data into this panel dictionary.