World Bank's Exporter Dynamics Database provides country-year level indicators on export transactions derived from customs data. This specific dataset contains the mean export value per new entrant firm, a key metric for analyzing trade competitiveness. The data is compiled by the World Bank from official customs records.
Use Cases
- Analyze the relationship between mean export value per entrant and other country-level economic indicators like GDP.
- Model the survival and growth patterns of new exporting firms using the entrant value metric as a key feature.
- Benchmark a country's export competitiveness by comparing its mean export value per entrant against regional peers over time.
- Forecast future export volumes by incorporating trends in the value brought by new market entrants.
Strengths
- Data originates from official customs transaction records, ensuring a factual basis.
- Provides a standardized, calculated indicator (mean value) facilitating cross-country comparison.
- Part of a broader World Bank database offering consistent country-year level formatting.
Limitations
- Specific sample size, time range, and number of countries covered are unknown.
- Underlying customs data may have varying reporting standards and completeness across different countries.
- The aggregated mean value metric may mask significant variance within a country's entrant firms.
Provenance
- Source
- World Bank Exporter Dynamics Database.
- Collection Method
- Calculated from exporter-level customs transaction data.
- Time Range
- null
- Freshness
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- Geography
- Country-level coverage; specific countries unknown.