Africa Owid External Balance On Goods And Services As A Percent Of Gdp

2,465 observations of external balance on goods and services as a percentage of GDP across 51 African countries from 1960 to 2024. The data is repackaged by Electric Sheep Africa from the Our World in Data source.

Use Cases

• Analyzing long-term trends in trade surpluses or deficits based on the external balance metric.
• Comparing economic performance and trade openness across different African nations.
• Modeling the relationship between external balance and other macroeconomic indicators for the African continent.
• Creating visualizations of trade balance evolution over a 64-year period for specific countries.

Strengths

• Covers a long time span of 64 years (1960–2024).
• Includes data for 51 distinct African countries.
• Contains 2,465 individual observations.

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.

Provenance

Source

Our World in Data

Collection Method

Repackaged by Electric Sheep Africa.

Time Range

1960–2024

Freshness

Last updated 2026-06-03 21:17:28; freshness should be verified.

Geography

Africa (51 countries)