World Bank data provides the median survival rate of export products for firms that have been active for two years. This indicator is part of the Exporter Dynamics Database, compiled from customs-level transaction records. The specific temporal and geographic coverage is not detailed.
Use Cases
- Analyze the relationship between exporter tenure and product survival rates across countries.
- Benchmark national export resilience using the median survival rate metric for two-year incumbents.
- Model trade policy impacts by correlating survival rates with other economic indicators from the Exporter Dynamics Database.
Strengths
- Derived from exporter-level customs transaction records, ensuring a foundation in administrative data.
- Part of a structured database (Exporter Dynamics Database) providing comparable country-year indicators.
Limitations
- The exact number of rows, columns, and sample size is unknown, limiting assessment of statistical power.
- Specific time range and geographic coverage are not provided, obscuring the data's context and potential biases.
Provenance
- Source
- World Bank Exporter Dynamics Database
- Collection Method
- Calculated from customs-level export transaction records.