Retrieve data from the UNESCO Institute for Statistics (UIS) API.
The package is part of the econdataverse family of packages aimed at helping economists and financial professionals work with sovereign-level economic data.
Usage
Load the package:
To fetch indicators for specific entities, you can call:
uis_get(
entities = c("BRA", "USA"),
indicators = c("CR.1", "CR.2"),
start_year = 2010,
end_year = 2020
)
#> # A tibble: 36 × 4
#> entity_id indicator_id year value
#> <chr> <chr> <int> <dbl>
#> 1 BRA CR.1 2011 89.9
#> 2 BRA CR.1 2012 91.6
#> 3 BRA CR.1 2013 91.5
#> 4 BRA CR.1 2014 92.9
#> 5 BRA CR.1 2015 93.2
#> 6 BRA CR.1 2016 93.8
#> 7 BRA CR.1 2017 94.6
#> 8 BRA CR.1 2018 95.1
#> 9 BRA CR.1 2019 95.7
#> 10 BRA CR.1 2020 96.3
#> # ℹ 26 more rowsYou can get information about the available entities via:
uis_get_entities()
#> # A tibble: 467 × 4
#> entity_id entity_name entity_type region_group
#> <chr> <chr> <chr> <chr>
#> 1 ABW Aruba NATIONAL <NA>
#> 2 AFG Afghanistan NATIONAL <NA>
#> 3 AGO Angola NATIONAL <NA>
#> 4 AIA Anguilla NATIONAL <NA>
#> 5 ALA Åland Islands NATIONAL <NA>
#> 6 ALB Albania NATIONAL <NA>
#> 7 AND Andorra NATIONAL <NA>
#> 8 ANT Netherlands Antilles NATIONAL <NA>
#> 9 ARE United Arab Emirates NATIONAL <NA>
#> 10 ARG Argentina NATIONAL <NA>
#> # ℹ 457 more rowsThe list of available indicators can be retrieved via:
uis_get_indicators()
#> # A tibble: 4,247 × 7
#> indicator_id indicator_name theme last_data_update last_data_update_des…¹
#> <chr> <chr> <chr> <chr> <chr>
#> 1 10 Official entrance… EDUC… 2025-02-23 February 2025 Data Re…
#> 2 10403 Start month of th… EDUC… 2025-02-23 February 2025 Data Re…
#> 3 10404 End month of the … EDUC… 2025-02-23 February 2025 Data Re…
#> 4 10405 Start of the acad… EDUC… 2025-02-23 February 2025 Data Re…
#> 5 10406 End of the academ… EDUC… 2025-02-23 February 2025 Data Re…
#> 6 13 Theoretical durat… EDUC… 2025-02-23 February 2025 Data Re…
#> 7 200101 Total population … DEMO… 2025-02-23 February 2025 Data Re…
#> 8 200144 Population aged 1… DEMO… 2025-02-23 February 2025 Data Re…
#> 9 200151 Population aged 6… DEMO… 2025-02-23 February 2025 Data Re…
#> 10 200343 Population aged 1… DEMO… 2025-02-23 February 2025 Data Re…
#> # ℹ 4,237 more rows
#> # ℹ abbreviated name: ¹last_data_update_description
#> # ℹ 2 more variables: data_availability <list>, entity_types <list>The API supports versioning and you can retrieve all versions using:
uis_get_versions()
#> # A tibble: 6 × 4
#> version publication_date description theme
#> <chr> <dttm> <chr> <list>
#> 1 20250225-2ae60fad 2025-02-27 15:29:19 February 2025 DR <tibble>
#> 2 20241121-61101499 2024-11-21 23:37:39 SCCI Data refresh – Nov 2024 -… <tibble>
#> 3 20241113-98786d81 2024-11-21 18:57:35 SCCI data refresh <tibble>
#> 4 20241030-9d4d089e 2024-10-30 17:28:00 Drop data for CIV on MYS for 1… <tibble>
#> 5 20240913-b8ca1963 2024-09-15 14:44:07 Glossary Update <tibble>
#> 6 20240910-b5ad4d82 2024-09-11 06:15:13 September 2024 Data Release (f… <tibble>If you are only interested in the current default version, you can use the parameter default:
uis_get_versions(default = TRUE)
#> # A tibble: 1 × 4
#> version publication_date description theme
#> <chr> <dttm> <chr> <list>
#> 1 20250225-2ae60fad 2025-02-27 15:29:19 February 2025 DR <tibble [4 × 3]>The API will only return 100,000 records for each query, if more data is requested, the API call with fail with a 400 http status code. If you need more data, then UIS recommends using the Bulk Data Download Service (BDDS). You can get a list of available files via:
uis_bulk_files()
#> # A tibble: 11 × 3
#> file_name file_url last_updated
#> <chr> <chr> <chr>
#> 1 "SDG 4 Education - Global and Thematic Indicators " https:/… Septembre 2…
#> 2 "Other Policy Relevant Indicators (OPRI)" https:/… September 2…
#> 3 " SDG 9.5 - Research and Development (R&D)" https:/… October 2024
#> 4 "Research and Development (R&D) – Other Policy Relevan… https:/… October 2024
#> 5 "SDG 11.4 Protect the Worlds Cultural and Natural Heri… https:/… October 2024
#> 6 "Demographic and Socio-economic Indicators" https:/… September 2…
#> 7 "Education Non Core Archive February 2020" https:/… <NA>
#> 8 "Research and Development (R&D) Archive March 2021" https:/… <NA>
#> 9 "Innovation Archive April 2017" https:/… <NA>
#> 10 "Cultural employment Archive June 2019" https:/… <NA>
#> 11 "Cultural trade Archive June 2021" https:/… <NA>Each bulk files consists of multiple CSV files and the uisapi package currently does not provide automatic importers for these files. Rather, you can use base utils to download a specific file, unzip it, and read its files. For instance:
download.file(
"https://uis.unesco.org/sites/default/files/documents/bdds/092024/SDG.zip",
destfile = "SDG.zip"
)
unzip("SDG.zip")
read.csv("SDG_COUNTRY.csv")