Nepal's World Trade Data from 1800 to 2016

Federico-Tena World Trade Historical Database provides a long-term perspective on Nepal's economic integration. This dataset, part of a larger project by Giovanni Federico and Antonio Tena Junguito, outlines changes in global trade patterns over more than two centuries. The data was harvested from the e-cienciaDatos Dataverse and last updated in May 2024.

Use Cases

• Modeling Nepal's long-term trade growth based on the 1800-2016 time series.
• Analyzing Nepal's integration into global trade networks based on historical data.
• Studying the impact of historical events on a national economy based on trade records.

Strengths

• Covers a 216-year time span from 1800 to 2016.
• Part of a well-known historical database project by established academic researchers.

Limitations

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

Provenance

Source

Giovanni Federico (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 to 2016

Freshness

Last updated 2024-05-05 04:42:34; freshness should be verified.

Geography

Nepal