Economic data

World Bank published derived GEM observations. Monthly real trade is deflated merchandise value, not tonnage or a physical shipment count. Original constant-2010-dollar units are retained; trade is in millions and industrial production is in dollars. Seasonal adjustment is publisher supplied. Only reviewed country/territory columns are included; regional/global aggregates are excluded. The current bulk workbook titles specify a 2010 base; stale API metadata describing a 2005 base is not used. The workbook supplies no per-observation flags, so reported versus estimated/provisional status is unknown. Rights metadata applies to the World Bank derived dataset, not underlying Datastream raw feeds.

Source: World Bank, Global Economic Monitor (GEM), CC BY 4.0. SOTW selects country-level monthly observations; no publisher endorsement is implied.

Reuse terms: CC-BY-4.0. Effective resale permission: permitted under the provider terms.

Series-wide coverage: 2015-01-01 to 2026-08-01. SOTW publication: 2026-11-10T14:16:14.074446+00:00.

Acquisition and dataset-update dates do not establish original publication dates. This view shows current source readings. Use a recorded-state pin to replay SOTW’s archive from its activation boundary.

Same exact source series, unit, frequency and definition. National exceptions and source flags still apply.

{
  "unit": "millions of constant 2010 US$",
  "dataset": "World Bank Global Economic Monitor (source 15, catalog 0037798)",
  "workbook": "Exports Merchandise, Customs, constant 2010 US$, millions, not seas. adj..xlsx",
  "frequency": "M",
  "selection": {
    "countries": "World Bank nonaggregate country catalog plus publisher-coded TWN exception",
    "worksheet": "monthly",
    "geographic_aliases": {
      "Slovakia": "SVK",
      "Moldova, Rep.": "MDA",
      "Taiwan, China": "TWN"
    },
    "excluded_aggregates": [
      "Advanced Economies",
      "Commodity-exporting EMDE",
      "Commodity-importing EMDE",
      "Commodity-importing EMDE excluding China",
      "Developing Countries",
      "EMDE East Asia & Pacific",
      "EMDE East Asia and Pacific",
      "EMDE Europe & Central Asia",
      "EMDE Europe and Central Asia",
      "EMDE Latin America & Caribbean",
      "EMDE Latin America and the Caribbean",
      "EMDE Middle East and North Africa",
      "EMDE Middle East, North Africa, Afghanistan & Pakistan",
      "EMDE South Asia",
      "EMDE Sub-Saharan Africa",
      "East Asia & Pacific developing",
      "Emerging Market and Developing Economies",
      "Emerging Market and Developing Economies (EMDEs)",
      "Europe and Central Asia developing",
      "High Income Countries",
      "Latin America & Caribbean developing",
      "Low Income Countries",
      "Low-Income Countries (LIC)",
      "Lower Middle Income Countries",
      "Middle East & N. Africa developing",
      "Middle Income Countries",
      "Middle-Income Countries (MIC)",
      "Netherlands Antilles",
      "Serbia and Montenegro",
      "South Asia developing",
      "Sub-Saharan Africa developing",
      "Upper Middle Income Countries",
      "World",
      "World (WBG members)"
    ],
    "excluded_country_quality": {
      "SVK": "Quarantined at 2026-11-10 review: the official export workbook carries this country at about one thousandth of its real scale (exports near 0.1% of imports in every month since 2015); source body retained, no corrected value is inferred."
    }
  },
  "valuation": "FOB",
  "adjustment": "not seasonally adjusted",
  "licence_review": {
    "licence": "CC-BY-4.0",
    "reviewed_at": "2026-10-10",
    "dataset_specific_url": "https://datacatalog.worldbank.org/infrastructure-data/search/dataset/0037798/global-economic-monitor"
  },
  "transformation": "none",
  "units_authority": "current official bulk workbook filename; no currency or index rebasing applied",
  "publisher_indicator": "DXGSRMRCHNSKD",
  "reviewed_since_year": 2015,
  "constant_price_base_year": 2010,
  "legacy_api_metadata_warning": "Source-15 API metadata still describes base 2005; this pack uses explicit current bulk workbook base 2010.",
  "underlying_sources_at_review": "World Bank staff calculations based on Datastream; real merchandise trade also references IMF International Finance Statistics."
}