Azerbaijan's World Trade Data from 1948 to 2020

Historical trade data for Azerbaijan 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. It was last updated on the dataverse platform in October 2025.

Use Cases

• Modeling Azerbaijan's trade dependency over time based on historical bilateral trade flows.
• Analyzing the impact of geopolitical events on Azerbaijan's trade based on the 72-year time series.
• Benchmarking Azerbaijan's economic integration within global trade networks based on historical records.

Strengths

• Covers a long historical period from 1948 to 2020.
• Created by named academic researchers from institutions like Universidad Carlos III de Madrid and New York University Dubai.
• Part of a larger, structured world trade historical database project.

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment for large-scale modeling.
• Description metadata is limited; actual data quality requires manual inspection after download.

Provenance

Source

Absell, Christopher; Federico, Giovanni; Tena Junguito, Antonio

Collection Method

Likely compiled from historical national and international trade records.

Time Range

1948-2020

Freshness

Last updated 2025-10-14 21:29:23; freshness should be verified.

Geography

Azerbaijan