The pipr package allows R users to compute poverty and
inequality indicators for more than 160 countries and regions from the
World Bank’s database of household surveys. It does so by accessing the
Poverty and Inequality Platform (PIP) API. PIP is a computational tool
that allows users to estimate poverty rates for regions, sets of
countries or individual countries, over time and at any poverty
line.
The CRAN package is currently archived. Install the development version from GitHub until it is available on CRAN again:
# From GitHub
devtools::install_github("worldbank/pipr")This is a basic example that shows how to retrieve some key poverty and inequity statistics.
library(dplyr)
library(pipr)
df <- get_stats(country = "ALB")
glimpse(df)get_aux("dictionary")