Myanmar's World Trade Data from 1948 to 2020

Myanmar's 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 on May 5, 2024.

Use Cases

• Analyzing Myanmar's long-term trade balance and economic integration based on the 72-year time series.
• Modeling the impact of historical events on Myanmar's trade flows based on the historical database.
• Comparing Myanmar's trade patterns with other countries in the Absell-Federico-Tena database.
• Studying the evolution of specific commodity exports or imports for Myanmar over the post-war period.

Strengths

• Covers a long historical period from 1948 to 2020.
• Part of a larger, established academic world trade database project.
• Last updated metadata indicates recent maintenance as of 2024-05-05.

Limitations

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

Provenance

Source

Absell-Federico-Tena World Trade Historical Database project.

Collection Method

Likely compiled from historical national and international trade statistics.

Time Range

1948-2020

Freshness

Last updated 2024-05-05 04:23:20; freshness should be verified

Geography

Myanmar