Other Historical World Trade Data Resources

Other Historical World Trade Data Resources

• The RICardo project focuses on bilateral trade data of all the world's countries from the early nineteenth century to the eve of the Second World War. The project includes the construction of a database and the creation of a website.The RICardo Project - sciences-po.fr http://ricardo.medialab.sciences-po.fr

• United Nations Historical data 1900-1960 on international merchandise trade statistics https://unstats.un.org/unsd/tradekb/Knowledgebase/50015/Historical-data-19001960-on-international-merchandise-trade-statistics

Tables I-XXIII give for total world exports and for the exports and imports of twenty-two individual countries, years 1900-1913, 1921-1938, 1948 and 1950-1960, current values in United States dollars and value indices of: (a) total trade, (b) trade in manufactured goods, and (c) trade in other goods. The twenty-two countries were chosen according to importance in world trade and availability of national trade statistics for the whole period.
The direction of trade can be seen from tables XXIV and XXV which, for the years 1900, 1913, 1928, 1935, 1938, 1948, 1953 and 1959, show world exports by provenance and destination by major areas and destination of exports for the twenty-two countries shown separately.

• League of Nations Publications historical data on international merchandise trade statistics

The titles and publication numbers of the balance of payment reviews issued by the League of Nations up and including 1938 are set out below for reference (source: United Nations, Balance of Payments 1939-1945, 1948, page 6):

• UNTAD World trade series : World MerchandiseTrade balance, annual, 1948-2016 http://unctadstat.unctad.org/wds/ReportFolders/reportFolders.aspx?sCS_ChosenLang=en