The EU-STRAT database is a website that allows researchers to explore interactive visualizations and extract data on international trade flows. It combines information from existing sources, and provides uniquely mapped data on international security training.
The primary focus of the database is Eastern Partnership (EaP) countries: Armenia, Azerbaijan, Georgia, Belarus, Moldova and Ukraine; as partnership counties it covers bilateral flows with China, USA, Turkey, Russian Federation and EU-28 (individual countries, or as aggregated group). It includes data from the three sectors Trade, Security and Migration and covers the period from 1991 to 2017 on an annual basis.
The data will be available for scholarly studies in 2019. For accessing the data please contact: Dr. Katharina Hoffmann
Sectors:
- Trade (including energy trade): 1) Bilateral: contains total trade values with the world, per partner countries and per sector split into two-digit HS code. 2) Individual: contains meta data about countries, set of indices, such as trade openness, and others
- Migration: 1) Bilateral: migrant remittance flow, emigrant and immigrants, migration flow 2000-2015. 2) Individual: migrant stock and remittances.
- Security: 1) Bilateral: arms exports and imports. 2) Individual: military
expenditure/spending, armed forces personnel, global militarization
index and supplementary information.
Methodology: APIs and web-scrapping
Data Providers: UN-Comtrade, World Bank, UN DESA, UNPD, Statistics services of EaP countries, SIPRI, Original Data Collection by EU-STRAT members
Data Format: CSV
The database has been developed and is maintained by the EU-STRAT participants at University of St.Gallen.