Income Level Queries

Income Levels

Income levels show the income category of a particular country as identified by the World Bank.  Income levels themselves just have a name and an id code. For more information on income level, including the methodology used by the World Bank, please visit Country Classification.

To see the list of income levels, use:
http://open.worldbank.org/incomeLevels/?api_key=xxxx

This returns the following xml:

<wb:incomeLevels page="1" pages="1" per_page="10" total="7">
<wb:incomeLevel id="NA">Aggregates</wb:incomeLevel>
<wb:incomeLevel id="NOC">High income: nonOECD</wb:incomeLevel>
<wb:incomeLevel id="OEC">High income: OECD</wb:incomeLevel>
<wb:incomeLevel id="LIC">Low income</wb:incomeLevel>
<wb:incomeLevel id="LMC">Lower middle income</wb:incomeLevel>
<wb:incomeLevel id="NWB">NA</wb:incomeLevel>
<wb:incomeLevel id="UMC">Upper middle income</wb:incomeLevel>
</wb:incomeLevels>

Sample Calls

It is not common to query income level directly. It is more common to use income level as a way to delimit other calls. 

For example, to show a list of countries of the "Lower middle income" level, use the following call:

http://open.worldbank.org/countries?incomeLevel=LMC&api_key=xxxx