Historical World Trade Data for Nigeria, 1800-2016

A dataset from the Federico-Tena World Trade Historical Database focusing on Nigeria. The project, developed by Giovanni Federico and Antonio Tena Junguito, outlines changes in world trade from 1800 to 2016. This specific dataset was harvested by e-cienciaDatos and last updated in May 2024.

Use Cases

• Analyze Nigeria's long-term trade integration into the global economy based on the 1800-2016 time series.
• Model historical economic growth based on trade volume and value data.
• Study the impact of colonial and post-colonial policies on Nigerian trade patterns.
• Benchmark Nigeria's trade performance against other countries in the broader historical database.

Strengths

• Covers a 216-year time range from 1800 to 2016.
• Part of a larger, established historical database project by academic researchers.
• Metadata indicates a recent update in May 2024.

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

Federico-Tena World Trade Historical Database project by Giovanni Federico (Università di Pisa) and Antonio Tena Junguito (Universidad Carlos III de Madrid).

Collection Method

Harvested by e-cienciaDatos from Dataverse.

Time Range

1800 to 2016

Freshness

Last updated 2024-05-05 04:52:32; freshness should be verified.

Geography

Nigeria