Thousands of data feeds are available from the World Bank and can be read directly into pandas DataFrame objects. The World Bank data catalog can be explored at http://www.worldbank.org/.
World Bank datasets are identified using indicators, a text code that represents each dataset. A full list of indicators can be retrieved using the pandas.io.wb.get_indicators() function. At the time of writing, there were 16,167 indicators. The following retrieves the indicators and displays the first five:
These indicators can be investigated using the World Bank website, but if you have an idea of the indicator you would like ...
