World Trade Openness Historical Data from 1800 to 2016

Over two centuries of world trade data from 1800 to 2016 are compiled in this historical database. The Federico-Tena World Trade Historical Database was developed by Giovanni Federico and Antonio Tena Junguito. The dataset was last updated in May 2024.

Use Cases

• Modeling the historical relationship between trade openness and economic growth based on the long-term time series.
• Analyzing the evolution of global economic integration over two centuries based on the openness metric.
• Benchmarking national trade policies against historical global trends based on the compiled data.

Strengths

• Covers a 216-year time span from 1800 to 2016.
• Developed by academic researchers Giovanni Federico and Antonio Tena Junguito.

Limitations

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

Provenance

Source

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

Collection Method

Project developed by the authors; specific compilation method is not detailed in the provided metadata.

Time Range

1800 to 2016

Freshness

Last updated 2024-05-05 04:44:48; freshness should be verified.

Geography

World