Get Japan's GDP (Current US$) from World Bank

Retrieves Japan's Gross Domestic Product (GDP) in current US dollars for the years 2010 to 2022 using the World Bank Open Data API. The indicator used is NY.GDP.MKTP.CD.

Usage

get_japan_gdp()

Source

World Bank Open Data API: https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/NY.GDP.MKTP.CD

Value

A tibble with the following columns, or NULL if the API is unavailable:

• indicator: Indicator name (e.g., "GDP (current US$)")

• country: Country name ("Japan")

• year: Year of the data (integer)

• value: GDP value in numeric form

• value_label: Formatted GDP value (e.g., "1,466,464,899,304")

Details

The function sends a GET request to the World Bank API. If the API request fails or returns an error status code, the function returns NULL with an informative message.

Note

Requires internet connection. The data is retrieved in real time from the World Bank API.

See also

GET, fromJSON, as_tibble, comma

Examples

# \donttest{
# Requires internet connection
result <- get_japan_gdp()
if (!is.null(result)) {
  print(result)
}
#> # A tibble: 13 × 5
#>    indicator         country  year   value value_label      
#>    <chr>             <chr>   <int>   <dbl> <chr>            
#>  1 GDP (current US$) Japan    2022 4.26e12 4,262,463,317,797
#>  2 GDP (current US$) Japan    2021 5.04e12 5,039,148,168,861
#>  3 GDP (current US$) Japan    2020 5.05e12 5,054,068,005,376
#>  4 GDP (current US$) Japan    2019 5.12e12 5,117,993,853,017
#>  5 GDP (current US$) Japan    2018 5.04e12 5,040,880,939,325
#>  6 GDP (current US$) Japan    2017 4.93e12 4,930,837,369,151
#>  7 GDP (current US$) Japan    2016 5.00e12 5,003,677,627,544
#>  8 GDP (current US$) Japan    2015 4.44e12 4,444,930,651,964
#>  9 GDP (current US$) Japan    2014 4.90e12 4,896,994,405,353
#> 10 GDP (current US$) Japan    2013 5.21e12 5,212,328,181,166
#> 11 GDP (current US$) Japan    2012 6.27e12 6,272,362,996,105
#> 12 GDP (current US$) Japan    2011 6.23e12 6,233,147,172,341
#> 13 GDP (current US$) Japan    2010 5.76e12 5,759,071,769,013
# }