Exporter-level customs data provides the average number of firms shipping goods to each foreign market. This indicator is part of the World Bank's Exporter Dynamics Database, which aggregates transaction records to the country-year level. The specific temporal coverage and volume of underlying records are not detailed.
Use Cases
- Analyze market diversification by calculating the mean number of exporters per destination country.
- Study export concentration by comparing this mean indicator across different economies or years.
- Model trade network resilience using country-year level exporter-destination links.
Strengths
- Data is derived from detailed exporter-level customs transaction records.
- Indicators are standardized at the country-year level for cross-national comparison.
Limitations
- The sample size of underlying firm records and the time range are unspecified.
- Data is an aggregated indicator, limiting analysis of individual firm dynamics.
- Geographic coverage of source countries is not provided.
Provenance
- Source
- World Bank Exporter Dynamics Database
- Collection Method
- Aggregated from customs declarations and exporter-level transaction records.
- Time Range
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- Freshness
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- Geography
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