Name: United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) — UNCTAD Data Hub (UNCTADstat)
Creator: United Nations Conference on Trade and Development
License: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/igo/

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

Coverage

Series catalogued

584

Temporal coverage

1948-01-01 – 2022-01-01

Licensing & provenance

License: Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 IGO (CC BY 3.0 IGO)
License URL: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/igo/
Required attribution: Source: United Nations Trade and Development Data Hub (UNCTADstat)
Redistribution: Permitted (served here)
Commercial use: Yes
Modification: Permitted
Provider homepage: https://unctadstat.unctad.org/
Provider terms: https://unctadstat.unctad.org/EN/FAQ.html

How to cite

United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) — UNCTAD Data Hub (UNCTADstat). Retrieved from https://unctadstat.unctad.org/. 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 unctad_mtba series as CSV →
API: Get a free API key, then GET /v1/series/<id>.csv
Canonical landing: https://econdatalibrary.com/unctad_mtba
Update cadence: none — discontinued by the publisher
Automated refresh: archival — UNCTAD has discontinued this dataset. This is the final copy, and it is not updated.

Structured metadata

schema.org/Dataset (Google Dataset Search)

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Croissant (ML-ready, schema.org JSON-LD)

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