Key Resources for Trade Indicators and Statistics
- Direction of Trade Statistics (DOTS)The Direction of Trade Statistics is an excellent source for trade statistics between countries. It reports total imports and exports by trading partners in U.S. dollars. Data may be available from 1948 to the present.
- International Financial Statistics Online This link opens in a new window
International Financial Statistics (IFS) is a excellent source of international statistics on all aspects of international and domestic economics. It reports, for most countries of the world, data needed in the analysis of international payments, consumer and producer prices, exchange rates, international liquidity, international banking, interest rates, production, government accounts, and national accounts.
- OCED.StatExtractsOCED.StatExtracts contains data for the 34 OECD countries and selected non-member economies. Statistics between non-developed nations are not available. See the sidebar on the left for links to International Trade and Balance of Payments.
- TradeStats ExpressTradeStats Express supplies global annual U.S. trade statistics at the national and state levels in maps, graphs and table (CSV) formats. Statistics include exports, imports and balance of trade as totals for all merchandise or at indiviual NAICS codes. Trading partners can be selected at an individual or regional level. Annual data runs from 1989 to the year previous to the current year. Quarterly data is available for the current year.
- U.S. Trade & International Transactions (FRED)Trade data from the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis
Recommended Datasets
- Andrew K. Rose ResearchProfessor Rose supplies datasets in Stata or Excel format that he used in his recent research in areas such as: the gravity model, determinants of trade, the Olympic effect, results of regional trade agreements, etc.
- CEPIICEPII produces databases and analyses on the world economy. If the site is in French, click on the British flag on the upper right. Datasets include: gravity, geodistance, language, export sohpistication, etc.