diff --git a/doc/source/index.rst.template b/doc/source/index.rst.template
index f5c65e175b0db..7c7457df8ea93 100644
--- a/doc/source/index.rst.template
+++ b/doc/source/index.rst.template
@@ -137,7 +137,6 @@ See the package overview for more detail about what's in the library.
     visualization
     style
     io
-    remote_data
     enhancingperf
     sparse
     gotchas
diff --git a/doc/source/remote_data.rst b/doc/source/remote_data.rst
deleted file mode 100644
index 5054bb7bcd12e..0000000000000
--- a/doc/source/remote_data.rst
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,30 +0,0 @@
-.. _remote_data:
-
-.. currentmodule:: pandas
-
-******************
-Remote Data Access
-******************
-
-.. _remote_data.pandas_datareader:
-
-DataReader
-----------
-
-The sub-package ``pandas.io.data`` was removed in
-`v.0.19 <http://pandas-docs.github.io/pandas-docs-travis/whatsnew.html#v0-19-0-october-2-2016>`__.
-Instead there has been created a separately installable
-`pandas-datareader package <https://github.com/pydata/pandas-datareader>`__.
-This will allow the data modules to be independently updated on your pandas installation.
-
-For code older than < 0.19 you should replace the imports of the following:
-
-.. code-block:: python
-
-   from pandas.io import data, wb
-
-With:
-
-.. code-block:: python
-
-   from pandas_datareader import data, wb
diff --git a/doc/source/whatsnew/v0.22.0.txt b/doc/source/whatsnew/v0.22.0.txt
index fd37f269c2f83..cd727c728eb3d 100644
--- a/doc/source/whatsnew/v0.22.0.txt
+++ b/doc/source/whatsnew/v0.22.0.txt
@@ -148,6 +148,7 @@ Removal of prior version deprecations/changes
 - ``pd.tseries.util.isleapyear`` has been removed (deprecated since v0.19). Use ``.is_leap_year`` property in Datetime-likes instead (:issue:`18370`)
 - ``pd.ordered_merge`` has been removed (deprecated since v0.19). Use ``pd.merge_ordered`` instead (:issue:`18459`)
 - The ``SparseList`` class has been removed (:issue:`14007`)
+- The ``pandas.io.wb`` and ``pandas.io.data`` stub modules have been removed (:issue:`13735`)
 
 .. _whatsnew_0220.performance:
 
diff --git a/pandas/io/data.py b/pandas/io/data.py
deleted file mode 100644
index e76790a6ab98b..0000000000000
--- a/pandas/io/data.py
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,6 +0,0 @@
-raise ImportError(
-    "The pandas.io.data module is moved to a separate package "
-    "(pandas-datareader). After installing the pandas-datareader package "
-    "(https://github.com/pydata/pandas-datareader), you can change "
-    "the import ``from pandas.io import data, wb`` to "
-    "``from pandas_datareader import data, wb``.")
diff --git a/pandas/io/wb.py b/pandas/io/wb.py
deleted file mode 100644
index 5dc4d9ce1adc4..0000000000000
--- a/pandas/io/wb.py
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,6 +0,0 @@
-raise ImportError(
-    "The pandas.io.wb module is moved to a separate package "
-    "(pandas-datareader). After installing the pandas-datareader package "
-    "(https://github.com/pydata/pandas-datareader), you can change "
-    "the import ``from pandas.io import data, wb`` to "
-    "``from pandas_datareader import data, wb``.")