WHO regional Member State ISO3 vectors

Convenience character vectors of ISO3 codes for the WHO Member States in each region. Each vector is the regional subset of who_countries's iso3 column, sorted alphabetically.

Usage

afro_cty

amro_cty

searo_cty

euro_cty

emro_cty

wpro_cty

Format

Character vectors of ISO 3166-1 alpha-3 codes.

An object of class character of length 47.

An object of class character of length 35.

An object of class character of length 10.

An object of class character of length 53.

An object of class character of length 21.

An object of class character of length 28.

Details

These are derived directly from who_countries and exist for ergonomic filtering, e.g. dplyr::filter(data, iso3 %in% wpro_cty). If you need to update group membership, edit data-raw/who_countries.R and re-run that script — the vectors regenerate from the master table.

afro_cty

47 Member States in the WHO African Region.

amro_cty

35 Member States in the WHO Region of the Americas.

searo_cty

10 Member States in the WHO South-East Asia Region.

euro_cty

53 Member States in the WHO European Region.

emro_cty

21 Member States in the WHO Eastern Mediterranean Region.

wpro_cty

28 Member States in the WHO Western Pacific Region. Includes Indonesia from May 2025 (per WHO EB156).

See also

who_countries, pic_cty.

Examples

length(wpro_cty)        # 28
#> [1] 28
"IDN" %in% wpro_cty     # TRUE — Indonesia in WPR since May 2025
#> [1] TRUE