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Pwt

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Penn World Tables (PWT) 10.0 — real GDP, TFP, capital, labour across 183 countries. License: CC BY 4.0 Source: https://www.rug.nl/ggdc/productivity/pwt/ No API key required (direct XLSX download). Variables (47): rgdpe, rgdpo, pop, emp, avh, hc, ccon, cda, cgdpe, cgdpo, cn, ck, ctfp, cwtfp, rconna,…

Metadata only. This source’s license does not permit redistribution, so we catalog its metadata but do not re-serve the data. Use the provider link to obtain it under the original terms.

Coverage

Series catalogued
7,159
Temporal coverage
1950-12-31 – 2019-12-31

Licensing & provenance

License
License under review
Redistribution
Not permitted (metadata only)
Commercial use
Restricted / no
Modification
Permitted

How to cite

Groningen Growth and Development Centre (GGDC), University of Groningen — Penn World Table. Retrieved from https://www.rug.nl/ggdc/productivity/pwt/. Compiled and redistributed by the Elkassabgi Data Library.

Processing: Retrieved from the official source, normalized to a long {series_key, obs_date, value} schema (period-start dates), de-duplicated, and stored as zstd Parquet. Compiled and redistributed by the Elkassabgi Data Library.

Access & mirrors

Download
Select & download pwt series as CSV →
API
Get a free API key, then GET /v1/series/<id>.csv
Canonical landing
https://econdatalibrary.com/pwt.html
Update cadence
static
Update strategy
overwrite if changed
Storage layout
single file data/clean_full/pwt/pwt.parquet, columns series_key/obs_date/value, series_key='<variable>:<ISO3>' (note ':' separator, unlike penn_world_table's '|'); annual Dec-31. No raw cache, no summary json. One file on disk.

Full description

Penn World Tables (PWT) 10.0 — real GDP, TFP, capital, labour across 183 countries. License: CC BY 4.0 Source: https://www.rug.nl/ggdc/productivity/pwt/ No API key required (direct XLSX download). Variables (47): rgdpe, rgdpo, pop, emp, avh, hc, ccon, cda, cgdpe, cgdpo, cn, ck, ctfp, cwtfp, rconna, rdana, irr, delta, xr, pl_con, pl_da, pl_gdpo, i_cig, i_xm, i_xr, i_outlier, i_irr, cor_exp, statcap, csh_c, csh_i, csh_g, csh_x, csh_m, csh_r, pl_c, pl_i, pl_g, pl_x, pl_m, pl_n, pl_k, labsh, ulc, tfpna, rnna, rcon Run: python jobs/ingest_pwt.py

Structured metadata

schema.org/Dataset (Google Dataset Search)
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Croissant (ML-ready, schema.org JSON-LD)
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