trade
How exposed is my economy to a single trading partner?
Concentration measures on bilateral flows, by product and by partner.
Data that answers this
Maritime chokepoints: daily transits and cargo capacity
Daily vessel counts and cargo capacity through 28 maritime chokepoints, from IMF PortWatch. This is where a trade shock becomes visible within days rather...
ESTAT · EUROSTAT-REUSEEnergy import dependency
The share of energy consumption that has to be imported, by fuel, for each EU member state. The single clearest measure of energy exposure there is.
MONDO · MONDO-OWN-CC-BY-4.0Trade network measures - gross against value added
The same countries, the same years, measured twice - once on the network of gross exports and once on the network of domestic value added. Strength, partner...
FAOSTAT · CC-BY-4.0Fertilizer trade: who ships the potash, and to whom
Bilateral trade in the three primary fertilizer nutrients — nitrogen, phosphate and potash — in tonnes of nutrient content, for every reporting pair since...
USGS · USGS-PUBLIC-DOMAINCritical mineral production: world mine and refinery output by country
Annual world production of the minerals that supply chains depend on and cannot easily substitute - lithium, cobalt, rare earths, graphite, platinum-group...
USGS · USGS-PUBLIC-DOMAINCritical mineral reserves: where the remaining deposits are
Estimated reserves by country for the same critical minerals. Reserves are a stock and production is a flow, so they are kept as separate indicators even...
WB · CC-BY-4.0Resource dependence: natural resource rents and ores and metals trade
How much of an economy rests on extracting and selling raw materials: mineral, oil, gas, coal and forest rents as a share of GDP, alongside ores and metals...
ESTAT · EUROSTAT-REUSEEU trade in raw materials, by partner
Extra-EU exports, imports and the balance in crude materials (SITC 2+4), broken down by trading partner. The first bilateral series on the platform: it uses...
ESTAT · EUROSTAT-REUSEEU trade in mineral fuels, by partner
Extra-EU trade in mineral fuels and lubricants (SITC 3) by partner - the counterpart to the chokepoint transit data, showing who the cargo is coming from...
IMF-IMTS · PROVIDER-TERMS-RESTRICTEDMerchandise trade by partner country
Exports and imports between reporting countries and each of their trading partners. This is the dataset that makes a destination question answerable: not...
MONDO · MONDO-OWN-CC-BY-4.0Export destination concentration: Gini, HHI and entropy
How concentrated a country's exports are across the places they go, measured three ways that disagree. Concentration is the quantity behind every argument...