Belgian Congo (Zaire) Historical Trade Data, 1800-2016

Federico-Tena World Trade Historical Database outlines changes in global commerce over two centuries. This specific dataset, harvested from e-cienciaDatos, focuses on the trade of the Belgian Congo, later Zaire. The project was developed by Giovanni Federico and Antonio Tena Junguito.

Use Cases

• Modeling long-term trade dependency based on historical export/import flows.
• Analyzing the economic impact of colonial rule based on trade data spanning over 200 years.
• Training time-series forecasting models on historical commodity trade patterns.
• Studying structural breaks in economic time series around political events like independence.

Strengths

• Covers a 216-year time range from 1800 to 2016.
• Part of a larger, established historical database project by academic economists.
• Last metadata update was recorded on 2024-05-05.

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Row count and file size are unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
• Data may reflect geographic and temporal bias inherent to historical colonial records.

Provenance

Source

Federico, Giovanni (Università di Pisa) and Antonio Tena Junguito (Universidad Carlos III de Madrid)

Collection Method

Part of the Federico-Tena World Trade Historical Database project.

Time Range

1800-2016

Freshness

Last updated 2024-05-05 04:11:06; freshness should be verified.

Geography

Belgian Congo (Zaire)