World Bank data provides exporter-level transaction information from customs records. The dataset contains calculated indicators, such as the median growth rate of surviving entrants, aggregated at the country-year level. It is maintained by the World Bank's Exporter Dynamics Database team.
Use Cases
- Analyze the relationship between median growth of surviving exporters and country-level economic indicators like GDP.
- Model the survival and growth patterns of new exporting firms across different countries and years.
- Benchmark national export sector performance using the median growth metric for policy evaluation.
- Investigate temporal trends in exporter resilience post-market entry using the country-year panel structure.
Strengths
- Data derived from official customs transaction records, providing a factual foundation.
- Indicators are pre-calculated and aggregated to a standardized country-year format for comparative analysis.
Limitations
- Underlying row count and sample size of individual exporter transactions are unknown.
- Specific columns and raw data features are not disclosed, limiting granular analysis.
- Update frequency and temporal coverage are unspecified, potentially affecting recency.
Provenance
- Source
- World Bank Exporter Dynamics Database
- Collection Method
- Calculated from exporter-level customs transaction records.
- Time Range
- null
- Freshness
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- Geography
- Country-level coverage, specific countries unknown.