Asia trade data from 1948 to 2020 compiled by researchers Christopher Absell, Giovanni Federico, and Antonio Tena Junguito. The dataset is part of the Absell-Federico-Tena World Trade Historical Database and was last updated in October 2025.
Use Cases
- Modeling long-term trade flows based on the 72-year historical coverage.
- Analyzing Asia's integration into the global economy based on world trade data.
- Conducting comparative economic studies based on the regional focus on Asia.
Strengths
- Covers a 72-year time range from 1948 to 2020.
- Developed by a named academic research team.
Limitations
- Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
- Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
Provenance
- Source
- Project by Christopher Absell (University Gothenburg and Instituto Figuerola), Giovanni Federico (New York University Dubai), and Antonio Tena Junguito (Universidad Carlos III de Madrid and Instituto Figuerola).
- Collection Method
- Harvested via e-cienciaDatos from Dataverse.
- Time Range
- 1948-2020
- Freshness
- Last updated 2025-10-14 21:33:58; freshness should be verified.
- Geography
- Asia