Kuwait's Historical Trade Data from 1948 to 2020

1948-2020 trade records for Kuwait compiled by researchers from the University of Gothenburg, New York University Abu Dhabi, and Universidad Carlos III de Madrid. The dataset is part of the Absell-Federico-Tena World Trade Historical Database project. It was last updated in the dataverse repository on May 5, 2024.

Use Cases

• Modeling Kuwait's long-term trade balance and economic dependency based on historical trade flows.
• Analyzing shifts in Kuwait's major trading partners and export commodities over the 20th and 21st centuries.
• Studying the impact of geopolitical events, like oil discovery or regional conflicts, on Kuwait's trade patterns.
• Benchmarking Kuwait's trade integration within global and regional economic networks across decades.

Strengths

• Covers a 72-year time span from 1948 to 2020, enabling long-term trend analysis.
• Developed by a named academic collaboration involving institutions in Sweden, the UAE, and Spain.
• Specifically focuses on Kuwait, providing detailed country-level historical data.

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 and granularity require manual inspection.

Provenance

Source

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

Collection Method

Project developed by researchers; likely compiled from historical national and international trade records.

Time Range

1948-2020

Freshness

Last updated 2024-05-05 07:05:04; freshness should be verified.

Geography

Kuwait