SASEWBGO Interface Engine

Available Income Levels and Regions to Aggregate WBGO Time Series Data

In addition to aggregating your data according to country ID, you can also aggregate your selected data by specifying income-level IDs or region IDs in the COUNTRYLIST= option. To get a list of the available income levels of WBGO data, enter the following URL in your web browser: http://api.worldbank.org/v2/incomeLevels?format=xml. Table 2 shows the income levels that are available.

Table 2: Income Levels of the World Bank Group Open Data

Income-Level ID ISO-2 Code Income-Level Name
HIC XD High income
INX XY Not classified
LIC XM Low income
LMC XN Lower middle income
LMY XO Low and middle income
MIC XP Middle income
UMC XT Upper middle income


To get a list of the regions for WBGO data, enter the following URL in your web browser:

http://api.worldbank.org/v2/regions?format=xml

Table 3 shows the regions that are available.

Table 3: Regions of the World Bank Group Open Data

Region ID ISO-2 Code Region Name
AFR A9 Africa
ARB 1A Arab World
CAA C9 Sub-Saharan Africa (IFC classification)
CEA C4 East Asia and the Pacific (IFC classification)
CEB B8 Central Europe and the Baltics
CEU C5 Europe and Central Asia (IFC classification)
CLA C6 Latin America and the Caribbean (IFC classification)
CME C7 Middle East and North Africa (IFC classification)
CSA C8 South Asia (IFC classification)
CSS S3 Caribbean small states
EAP 4E East Asia and Pacific (excluding high income; developing only)
EAR V2 Early-demographic dividend
EAS Z4 East Asia and Pacific (all income levels)
ECA 7E Europe and Central Asia (excluding high income; developing only)
ECS Z7 Europe and Central Asia (all income levels)
EMU XC EURO area
EUU EU European Union
FCS F1 Fragile and conflict-affected situations
HPC XE Heavily indebted poor countries (HIPC)
LAC XJ Latin America and the Caribbean (excluding high income)
LCN ZJ Latin America and the Caribbean (all income levels)
LDC XL Least developed countries: UN classification
LTE V3 Late-demographic dividend
MDE M1 Middle East (developing only)
MEA ZQ Middle East and North Africa (all income levels)
MNA XQ Middle East and North Africa (excluding high income; developing only)
NAC XU North America
NAF M2 North Africa
NRS 6S Non-resource-rich Sub-Saharan Africa
OED OE OECD members
OSS S4 Other small states
PRE V1 Pre-demographic dividend
PSS S2 Pacific Island small states
PST V4 Post-demographic dividend
RRS R6 Resource-rich Sub-Saharan Africa countries
SAS 8S South Asia
SSA ZF Sub-Saharan Africa (excluding high income)
SSF ZG Sub-Saharan Africa (all income levels)
SST S1 Small states
SXZ A4 Sub-Saharan Africa excluding South Africa
WLD 1W All countries (world)
XZN A5 Sub-Saharan Africa excluding South Africa and Nigeria


Last updated: June 19, 2025