Get OECD GDP data

Downloads (and caches) annual gross domestic product (GDP) at current prices for OECD member countries from the OECD National Accounts database.

Usage

get_oecd_gdp(countries = "all", start_year = 1990, refresh = FALSE)

Arguments

countries

Character vector of ISO 3166-1 alpha-3 country codes, or "all" for all 38 OECD members. Defaults to "all". Run list_oecd_countries() to see available codes.

start_year

Numeric. Earliest year to include. Defaults to 1990.

refresh

Logical. If TRUE, re-download even if a cached copy exists. Defaults to FALSE.

Value

A data frame with columns:

country

ISO 3166-1 alpha-3 country code (character)

country_name

English country name (character)

year

Calendar year (integer)

series

"GDP" (character)

value

GDP value at current prices (numeric)

unit

Unit of measurement (character)

Details

GDP is measured using the expenditure approach (Table 1 of the OECD Main National Accounts), valued at current prices in US dollars converted using purchasing power parities (PPPs) where available.

See also

Other economic indicators: get_oecd_cpi(), get_oecd_unemployment()

Examples

# \donttest{
op <- options(readoecd.cache_dir = tempdir())
gdp <- try(get_oecd_gdp(c("AUS", "GBR", "USA"), start_year = 2010))
#> Downloading from OECD API...

if (!inherits(gdp, "try-error")) {
  # Largest OECD economies
  latest <- gdp[gdp$year == max(gdp$year), ]
  head(latest[order(-latest$value), c("country_name", "value")], 10)
}
#>      country_name    value
#> 26  United States 30769700
#> 15 United Kingdom  4538475
#> 25      Australia  2132764
options(op)
# }