World Trade Historical Database, 1800-2016

A historical database developed by Giovanni Federico and Antonio Tena Junguito outlines changes in world trade from 1800 to 2016. The project is hosted by e-cienciaDatos Harvested Dataverse and was last updated in May 2024.

Use Cases

• Analyzing long-term trends in global trade volume based on the described 216-year time series.
• Modeling the historical evolution of trade networks and dependencies.
• Benchmarking economic growth models against historical trade data.

Strengths

• Covers a 216-year time span from 1800 to 2016.
• Created by named academic researchers from Università di Pisa and Universidad Carlos III de Madrid.

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 gathering method is not detailed in the provided metadata.

Time Range

1800 to 2016

Freshness

Last updated 2024-05-05 05:45:19; freshness should be verified.

Geography

World