Exporter-level information on export transactions from customs data. The dataset provides a country-year level indicator for the standard deviation in the number of destinations served by exporters. It is produced by the World Bank's Exporter Dynamics Database.
Use Cases
- Analyzing export market diversification by modeling the relationship between the destination count standard deviation and other country-year economic indicators.
- Assessing trade volatility by using the destination count standard deviation as a feature in time-series models of export stability.
- Benchmarking national export strategies by comparing the destination count standard deviation metric across different countries and years.
Strengths
- Derived from authoritative customs transaction data.
- Provides a standardized indicator for cross-country comparison.
Limitations
- Specific row count, time range, and column details are unknown.
- Lacks granular firm-level data, offering only aggregated country-year statistics.
Provenance
- Source
- World Bank Exporter Dynamics Database
- Collection Method
- Calculated from customs records of export transactions.
- Time Range
- null
- Freshness
- null
- Geography
- Country-level coverage, specific countries unknown.