New Zealand Historical Trade Data from 1800 to 2016

Federico-Tena World Trade Historical Database provides a long-term view of international commerce. This subset focuses on New Zealand's trade patterns over a 216-year period from 1800 to 2016. The project was developed by Giovanni Federico of Università di Pisa and Antonio Tena Junguito of Universidad Carlos III de Madrid.

Use Cases

• Modeling New Zealand's trade dependency and economic growth based on historical trade flows mentioned in the description
• Analyzing long-term shifts in New Zealand's export and import composition based on the 1800-2016 time range
• Benchmarking New Zealand's trade performance within global historical contexts based on the world trade database scope

Strengths

• Covers a 216-year time series from 1800 to 2016, enabling long-term trend analysis
• Part of a larger, established world trade database project by academic researchers
• Last metadata update was recorded on 2024-05-05, suggesting recent platform activity

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
• Data may reflect temporal and geographic bias inherent to historical trade reconstructions

Provenance

Source

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

Collection Method

Likely compiled from historical trade records and national accounts.

Time Range

1800 to 2016

Freshness

Last updated 2024-05-05 05:33:13; freshness should be verified

Geography

New Zealand