Product Entry Rate for Surviving Exporters: Median by Country-Year

Exporter-level information on export transactions from customs data, compiled by the World Bank's Exporter Dynamics Database. This indicator provides the median rate at which surviving exporting firms introduce new products to their export portfolio. The data is part of a country-year level series analyzing firm behavior in international trade.

Use Cases

• Analyze the relationship between a country's median product entry rate and its overall export growth over time.
• Model firm survival and innovation by using the product entry rate indicator as a dependent variable against macroeconomic factors.
• Benchmark the product diversification behavior of surviving exporters across different countries using the country-year level metric.

Strengths

• Derived from detailed customs-level transaction data, providing a firm-level foundation.
• Part of a structured database (Exporter Dynamics Database) with standardized country-year indicators.

Limitations

• Specific row count, time coverage, and number of countries covered are unknown.
• Underlying firm-level transaction data is aggregated, limiting granular analysis of individual exporters.

Provenance

Source

World Bank Exporter Dynamics Database – Indicators at Country-Year Level.

Collection Method

Calculated from customs records of export transactions.

Geography

Country-level, specific countries covered are unknown.