electricsheepafrica/africa-comtrade-benin-exports-by-partner

Benin — Exports by Trading Partner | Africa (UN Comtrade)

🌍 6,848 observations · 1 Africa countries · 2000–2023 · Repackaged by Electric Sheep Africa

TL;DR

This dataset contains 6,848 observations of International merchandise trade data across 1 Africa countries, spanning 2000–2023, covering 192 distinct indicators.

About the source

• Source: UN Comtrade
• Publisher: United Nations Statistics Division (UN Comtrade)
• License: other
• Topic: International merchandise trade

Geographic coverage

1 Africa countries · top rows shown below, sorted by row count:

Country	Rows	First year	Last year
Benin	6,848	2000	2023

Indicators (sample)

• Afghanistan — Afghanistan
• Albania — Albania
• Algeria — Algeria
• American Samoa — American Samoa
• Andorra — Andorra
• Angola — Angola
• Anguilla — Anguilla
• Antigua and Barbuda — Antigua and Barbuda
• Areas, nes — Areas, nes
• Argentina — Argentina
• ... and 182 more indicators

Schema

Column	Type	Description	Example
country_name	string	—	Benin
country_iso3	string	—	BEN
partner_name	string	—	Afghanistan
partner_iso3	string	—	AFG
year	int64	—	2000
flow	string	—	exports
trade_value_usd	float64	—	84867.0

Usage

from datasets import load_dataset

ds = load_dataset("electricsheepafrica/africa-comtrade-benin-exports-by-partner")
df = ds["train"].to_pandas()
print(df.head())

Filter to one country

kenya = df[df["country_name"] == "KEN"]

Time-series for a single indicator

sample = (df[df["partner_name"] == "Afghanistan"]
          .sort_values("year"))
sample.plot(x="year", y="trade_value_usd", title="Afghanistan")

Pivot to country × year matrix

matrix = (df[df["partner_name"] == "Afghanistan"]
          .pivot_table(index="year", columns="country_name", values="trade_value_usd"))
print(matrix.tail())

Citation

@misc{africa_comtrade_benin_exports_by_partner_2023,
  title        = {Benin — Exports by Trading Partner | Africa (UN Comtrade)},
  author       = {United Nations Statistics Division (UN Comtrade)},
  year         = {2023},
  url          = {https://comtradeplus.un.org/},
  publisher    = {HuggingFace Datasets, repackaged by Electric Sheep Africa},
  howpublished = {\url{https://huggingface.co/datasets/electricsheepafrica/africa-comtrade-benin-exports-by-partner}}
}

License

Released under other.

Original data © United Nations Statistics Division (UN Comtrade). When using this dataset, please cite both the original source above and the Electric Sheep Africa repackaging.

About Electric Sheep

Electric Sheep Africa is part of the Electric Sheep mission: a unified, ML-ready data layer for Africa on HuggingFace. We pull data from authoritative open sources, normalize the schemas, package as Parquet, and publish with consistent dataset cards so researchers and developers can use load_dataset() to start working in seconds.

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Provenance: ingested 2026-06-17 via the Electric Sheep pipeline. Source URL: https://comtradeplus.un.org/