A table of showing the United Nations Regional groups of Member States and World Health Organisation regions of nation states and all states with Officially Assigned ISO3166 Alpha-3 country codes.
Format
global_regions A tibble with 249 rows and 6 columns:
- country
Country name. Given name conflicts between the two data sources, names identified in
countryare defined ascountrycode::countrycode(global_regions$iso3, origin = "iso3c", destination = "country.name")- iso2, iso3
Alpha-2 & Alpha-3 ISO3166 country codes
- who_region
World Health Organisation region
- un_region
United Nations Regional group of Member States
- continent
Continent
Source
Table combined from un-regions.csv, and who-regions.csv, housed in
package data-raw directory.
un-regions.csv manually created from tables on "Regional groups of Member
States"
https://www.un.org/dgacm/en/content/regional-groups
2024-02-02
who-regions.csv was downloaded from
https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/who-regions
2024-02-02
World Health Organization – processed by Our World in Data & World Health Organization.
continent defined by countrycode::codelist$continent, (largely?) by
World Bank.
Details
Includes all Officially Assigned ISO3166 Alpha-3 country codes.
Not all 'countries' include a continent.
Special cases of UN regional groupings
Israel
In May 2000, Israel became a full member of the Group of Western European and other States on a temporary basis (subject to renewal), thereby enabling it to put forward candidates for election to various bodies of the General Assembly. In 2004, Israel obtained a permanent renewal to its membership.
Kiribati
As of 2010, Kiribati (geographically in Oceania) is not a member of any regional group, despite other Oceania nations belonging to the Group of Asia-Pacific States.
Türkiye
Türkiye participates fully in both the Group of Western European and other States and the Group of Asia-Pacific States, but for electoral purposes is considered a member of the Group of Western European and other States only.
While Türkiye is listed in both groupings in the original dataset; here we remove the duplication and list it only where it is a voting member, i.e., Western European and other States
United States of America
The United States of America is not a member of any regional group, but attends meetings of the Group of Western European and other States as an observer and is considered to be a member of that group for electoral purposes.