Catalog / The Growth Lab at Harvard University — Atlas of Economic Complexity (Harvard Dataverse)

harvard_atlas

The Growth Lab at Harvard University — Atlas of Economic Complexity (Harvard Dataverse)

Name: The Growth Lab at Harvard University — Atlas of Economic Complexity (Harvard Dataverse)
Creator: The Growth Lab at Harvard University
License: https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/

Open · redistributedCreative Commons Zero (CC0)International Trade

Redistributable. This source is served as canonical Parquet under the license below, with attribution and provenance preserved.

Coverage

Series catalogued

255,217

Licensing & provenance

License: Creative Commons Zero (CC0)
License URL: https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/
Required attribution: Data: The Growth Lab at Harvard University, Atlas of Economic Complexity (Harvard Dataverse, CC0 1.0).
Redistribution: Permitted (served here)
Commercial use: Yes
Modification: Permitted
Provider homepage: https://atlas.hks.harvard.edu
Provider terms: https://dataverse.harvard.edu/dataverse/atlas

Access & mirrors

Download: Select & download harvard_atlas series as CSV →
API: Get a free API key, then GET /v1/series/<id>.csv
Canonical landing: https://econdatalibrary.com/harvard_atlas
Update cadence: annual
Automated refresh: live — this database is on the daily update run
Update strategy: overwrite if changed
Storage layout: multiple per-dataset parquets (one per CSV): eci_rankings.parquet, services_country_year.parquet, services_cp_{1,2,4,6}.parquet, hs12_country_year.parquet, hs12_cp_{hs1,hs2}.parquet (9 files). Schema: series_key (ATLAS:...), obs_date, value.

Full description

Harvard Growth Lab – Atlas of Economic Complexity ingest. Downloads from Harvard Dataverse: 1. Growth Projections and Complexity Rankings (ECI, growth forecasts) doi:10.7910/DVN/XTAQMC 2. International Trade Data – Services (country-year services trade) doi:10.7910/DVN/NDDMSN 3. International Trade Data – HS12 (country-product and country-year) doi:10.7910/DVN/YAVJDF Converts to long-format parquet: {series_key, obs_date, value}. Run: python jobs/ingest_harvard_atlas.py

Structured metadata

schema.org/Dataset (Google Dataset Search)

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Part of the Econ Data Library catalog · metadata generated 2026-08-02 from the central registry · browse all datasets