Exporter-level information on export transactions sourced from customs records. The dataset is part of the Exporter Dynamics Database, providing indicators aggregated at the country-year level. The World Bank serves as the platform for this data.
Use Cases
- Analyze trends in the number of new exporting firms (entrants) per country and year.
- Model the relationship between export market entry and other country-level economic indicators.
- Compare exporter entry rates across different countries using the standardized country-year aggregation.
Strengths
- Data derived from official customs transaction records, providing a factual administrative source.
- Aggregation at the country-year level enables standardized cross-national comparison.
Limitations
- Specific row count, column details, and temporal coverage are unknown, limiting assessment of scope.
- Aggregation may obscure firm-level heterogeneity and dynamics present in the underlying transaction data.
Provenance
- Source
- World Bank, Exporter Dynamics Database.
- Collection Method
- Compiled from exporter-level customs transaction records.
- Time Range
- null
- Freshness
- null
- Geography
- Country-level, specific countries unknown.