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africa-comtrade-benin-imports-by-partner

country_name stringclasses 1 value	country_iso3 stringclasses 1 value	partner_name stringclasses 232 values	partner_iso3 stringclasses 231 values	year int64 2k 2.02k	flow stringclasses 1 value	trade_value_usd float64 5.82 583M
Benin	BEN	Argentina	ARG	2,000	imports	105,985
Benin	BEN	Austria	AUT	2,000	imports	409,541
Benin	BEN	Bahrain	BHR	2,000	imports	566,081
Benin	BEN	Bangladesh	BGD	2,000	imports	287,650
Benin	BEN	Antarctica	ATA	2,000	imports	12,748
Benin	BEN	Belgium	BEL	2,000	imports	10,400,509
Benin	BEN	Botswana	BWA	2,000	imports	647
Benin	BEN	Bulgaria	BGR	2,000	imports	71,875
Benin	BEN	Myanmar	MMR	2,000	imports	13,385
Benin	BEN	Belarus	BLR	2,000	imports	127,577
Benin	BEN	Cambodia	KHM	2,000	imports	78
Benin	BEN	Cameroon	CMR	2,000	imports	2,752,081
Benin	BEN	Canada	CAN	2,000	imports	2,315,122
Benin	BEN	Cabo Verde	CPV	2,000	imports	49,621
Benin	BEN	Cayman Isds	CYM	2,000	imports	26,340
Benin	BEN	Central African Rep.	CAF	2,000	imports	39,471
Benin	BEN	Sri Lanka	LKA	2,000	imports	564
Benin	BEN	Chad	TCD	2,000	imports	303
Benin	BEN	Chile	CHL	2,000	imports	82,757
Benin	BEN	Brazil	BRA	2,000	imports	1,370,689
Benin	BEN	Br. Indian Ocean Terr.	IOT	2,000	imports	2,165
Benin	BEN	Congo	COG	2,000	imports	133,206
Benin	BEN	China	CHN	2,000	imports	29,637,971
Benin	BEN	Christmas Isds	CXR	2,000	imports	37,760
Benin	BEN	Cocos Isds	CCK	2,000	imports	20,110
Benin	BEN	Colombia	COL	2,000	imports	2,612
Benin	BEN	Comoros	COM	2,000	imports	21,357
Benin	BEN	Cook Isds	COK	2,000	imports	21,527
Benin	BEN	Cuba	CUB	2,000	imports	19,573
Benin	BEN	Cyprus	CYP	2,000	imports	18,165
Benin	BEN	Denmark	DNK	2,000	imports	4,414,317
Benin	BEN	Dominican Rep.	DOM	2,000	imports	9,343
Benin	BEN	Ecuador	ECU	2,000	imports	9,169
Benin	BEN	Ethiopia	ETH	2,000	imports	19,041
Benin	BEN	Fiji	FJI	2,000	imports	16,532
Benin	BEN	Finland	FIN	2,000	imports	430,145
Benin	BEN	Czechia	CZE	2,000	imports	711,741
Benin	BEN	France	FRA	2,000	imports	146,855,506
Benin	BEN	French Polynesia	PYF	2,000	imports	5,121
Benin	BEN	Djibouti	DJI	2,000	imports	15,211
Benin	BEN	Gabon	GAB	2,000	imports	3,460,084
Benin	BEN	Gambia	GMB	2,000	imports	28,583
Benin	BEN	Greenland	GRL	2,000	imports	11,874
Benin	BEN	Germany	DEU	2,000	imports	15,884,835
Benin	BEN	Ghana	GHA	2,000	imports	26,703,225
Benin	BEN	Gibraltar	GIB	2,000	imports	1,415
Benin	BEN	Kiribati	KIR	2,000	imports	41,179
Benin	BEN	Greece	GRC	2,000	imports	326,309
Benin	BEN	Grenada	GRD	2,000	imports	14,247
Benin	BEN	Guam	GUM	2,000	imports	2,045
Benin	BEN	Guinea	GIN	2,000	imports	1,246
Benin	BEN	Guyana	GUY	2,000	imports	455
Benin	BEN	Haiti	HTI	2,000	imports	212
Benin	BEN	Heard Island and McDonald Islands	HMD	2,000	imports	390
Benin	BEN	Honduras	HND	2,000	imports	3,182
Benin	BEN	China, Hong Kong SAR	HKG	2,000	imports	2,785,832
Benin	BEN	Hungary	HUN	2,000	imports	341,982
Benin	BEN	Indonesia	IDN	2,000	imports	4,668,845
Benin	BEN	Iran	IRN	2,000	imports	244,706
Benin	BEN	Ireland	IRL	2,000	imports	1,371,030
Benin	BEN	Israel	ISR	2,000	imports	26,722
Benin	BEN	Iceland	ISL	2,000	imports	17,706
Benin	BEN	Italy	ITA	2,000	imports	20,114,670
Benin	BEN	Côte d'Ivoire	CIV	2,000	imports	50,855,443
Benin	BEN	Jordan	JOR	2,000	imports	25,320
Benin	BEN	Japan	JPN	2,000	imports	16,900,509
Benin	BEN	Kenya	KEN	2,000	imports	36,394
Benin	BEN	Dem. People's Rep. of Korea	PRK	2,000	imports	976,348
Benin	BEN	Mauritius	MUS	2,000	imports	38,652
Benin	BEN	Rep. of Korea	KOR	2,000	imports	2,964,618
Benin	BEN	Kuwait	KWT	2,000	imports	135,759
Benin	BEN	Lebanon	LBN	2,000	imports	407,972
Benin	BEN	Liberia	LBR	2,000	imports	169,085
Benin	BEN	Libya	LBY	2,000	imports	7,845,822
Benin	BEN	Luxembourg	LUX	2,000	imports	94,923
Benin	BEN	Madagascar	MDG	2,000	imports	33,607
Benin	BEN	Malawi	MWI	2,000	imports	39,825
Benin	BEN	Malaysia	MYS	2,000	imports	537,601
Benin	BEN	Mali	MLI	2,000	imports	146,068
Benin	BEN	Mauritania	MRT	2,000	imports	7,646,617
Benin	BEN	Mexico	MEX	2,000	imports	10,147
Benin	BEN	Other Asia, nes	S19	2,000	imports	3,619,020
Benin	BEN	Morocco	MAR	2,000	imports	1,060,204
Benin	BEN	Namibia	NAM	2,000	imports	275
Benin	BEN	Netherlands	NLD	2,000	imports	32,197,604
Benin	BEN	Philippines	PHL	2,000	imports	19,002
Benin	BEN	New Zealand	NZL	2,000	imports	87,793
Benin	BEN	Niger	NER	2,000	imports	46,073
Benin	BEN	Norway	NOR	2,000	imports	305,394
Benin	BEN	United States Minor Outlying Islands	UMI	2,000	imports	125,522
Benin	BEN	FS Micronesia	FSM	2,000	imports	2,269
Benin	BEN	Pakistan	PAK	2,000	imports	5,526,674
Benin	BEN	Panama	PAN	2,000	imports	942,177
Benin	BEN	Paraguay	PRY	2,000	imports	36,907
Benin	BEN	Poland	POL	2,000	imports	377,321
Benin	BEN	Portugal	PRT	2,000	imports	903,774
Benin	BEN	Nigeria	NGA	2,000	imports	10,233,701
Benin	BEN	Niue	NIU	2,000	imports	12,082
Benin	BEN	Russian Federation	RUS	2,000	imports	2,352,248
Benin	BEN	Saint Pierre and Miquelon	SPM	2,000	imports	34,629

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

🌍 12,237 observations · 1 Africa countries · 2000–2023 · Repackaged by Electric Sheep Africa

TL;DR

This dataset contains 12,237 observations of International merchandise trade data across 1 Africa countries, spanning 2000–2023, covering 232 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`	12,237	2000	2023

Indicators (sample)

Afghanistan — Afghanistan
Albania — Albania
Algeria — Algeria
American Samoa — American Samoa
Andorra — Andorra
Angola — Angola
Anguilla — Anguilla
Antarctica — Antarctica
Antigua and Barbuda — Antigua and Barbuda
Areas, nes — Areas, nes
... and 222 more indicators

Schema

Column	Type	Description	Example
`country_name`	`string`	—	`Benin`
`country_iso3`	`string`	—	`BEN`
`partner_name`	`string`	—	`Argentina`
`partner_iso3`	`string`	—	`ARG`
`year`	`int64`	—	`2000`
`flow`	`string`	—	`imports`
`trade_value_usd`	`float64`	—	`105985.0`

Usage

from datasets import load_dataset

ds = load_dataset("electricsheepafrica/africa-comtrade-benin-imports-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"] == "Argentina"]
          .sort_values("year"))
sample.plot(x="year", y="trade_value_usd", title="Argentina")

Pivot to country × year matrix

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

Citation

@misc{africa_comtrade_benin_imports_by_partner_2023,
  title        = {Benin — Imports 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-imports-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.

Browse the full collection: huggingface.co/electricsheepafrica

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

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