World Bank's Exporter Dynamics Database provides country-year level indicators on exporter growth, derived from customs transaction records. The dataset includes a metric for the mean growth rate of incumbent exporters. This data is compiled by the World Bank to analyze firm-level trade dynamics.
Use Cases
- Analyze the relationship between incumbent exporter mean growth and national economic policies using country and year identifiers.
- Model the stability of export sectors by tracking the mean growth metric of established firms over time.
- Benchmark country-level export performance by comparing the incumbent growth indicator across different nations and years.
Strengths
- Sourced from official national customs records, providing a factual transaction basis.
- Aggregated to a standardized country-year level, enabling cross-national comparative analysis.
Limitations
- Specific row count, column details, and temporal coverage are not provided.
- The 'mean growth' indicator is an aggregate, masking underlying firm-level variance and distributions.
Provenance
- Source
- World Bank Exporter Dynamics Database
- Collection Method
- Calculated from exporter-level customs transaction records.
- Time Range
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- Freshness
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- Geography
- Country-level coverage for nations providing customs data to the World Bank.