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wbwdi

Seamless Access to World Bank World Development Indicators (WDI)

v1.0.3 · Nov 20, 2025 · MIT + file LICENSE

Description

Access and analyze the World Bank's World Development Indicators (WDI) using the corresponding API <https://datahelpdesk.worldbank.org/knowledgebase/articles/889392-about-the-indicators-api-documentation>. WDI provides more than 24,000 country or region-level indicators for various contexts. 'wbwdi' enables users to download, process and work with WDI series across multiple countries, aggregates, and time periods.

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tests

Running ‘testthat.R’ [3s/106s]
Running the tests in ‘tests/testthat.R’ failed.
Complete output:
  > # This file is part of the standard setup for testthat.
  > # It is recommended that you do not modify it.
  > #
  > # Where should you do additional 
...[truncated]...
re ('tests-wdi_get_indicators.R:2:3'): wdi_get_indicators handles ivalid language input ──
  Expected `wdi_get_indicators(language = "xx")` to throw a error.
  
  [ FAIL 3 | WARN 0 | SKIP 33 | PASS 126 ]
  Error:
  ! Test failures.
  Execution halted
OK 14 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE Mar 10, 2026

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Dependencies Reverse dependencies cli dplyr httr2 jsonlite purrr tibble tidyr rlang econdataverse econtools ctmva wbwdi

Version History

new 1.0.3 Mar 10, 2026
updated 1.0.3 ← 1.0.2 diff Nov 19, 2025
updated 1.0.2 ← 1.0.1 diff Oct 27, 2025
updated 1.0.1 ← 1.0.0 diff Mar 24, 2025
new 1.0.0 Feb 24, 2025