electricsheepafrica/africa-comtrade-burundi-exports-by-commodity

Burundi — Exports by Commodity (HS6) | Africa (UN Comtrade)

🌍 24,733 observations · 1 Africa countries · 2000–2023 · Repackaged by Electric Sheep Africa

TL;DR

This dataset contains 24,733 observations of International merchandise trade data across 1 Africa countries, spanning 2000–2023, covering 2600 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
Burundi	24,733	2000	2023

Indicators (sample)

• 010120 — 010120 - Asses, mules and hinnies
• 010210 — 010210 - - Pure-bred breeding animals
• 010221 — 010221 - Cattle; live, pure-bred breeding animals
• 010229 — 010229 - Cattle; live, other than pure-bred breeding animals
• 010290 — 010290 - Bovine animals; live, other than cattle and buffalo
• 010410 — 010410 - Sheep; live
• 010420 — 010420 - Goats; live
• 010511 — 010511 - Poultry; live, fowls of the species Gallus domesticus, weighing not more than 185g
• 010519 — 010519 - -- Other
• 010593 — 010593 - -- Fowls of the species Gallus domesticus, weighing more than 2,000 g
• ... and 2590 more indicators

Schema

Column	Type	Description	Example
country_name	string	—	Burundi
country_iso3	string	—	BDI
commodity_code	string	—	090420
commodity	string	—	090420 - - Fruits of the genus Capsi…
year	int64	—	2000
flow	string	—	exports
trade_value_usd	float64	—	142.0

Usage

from datasets import load_dataset

ds = load_dataset("electricsheepafrica/africa-comtrade-burundi-exports-by-commodity")
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["commodity_code"] == "090420"]
          .sort_values("year"))
sample.plot(x="year", y="trade_value_usd", title="090420")

Pivot to country × year matrix

matrix = (df[df["commodity_code"] == "090420"]
          .pivot_table(index="year", columns="country_name", values="trade_value_usd"))
print(matrix.tail())

Citation

@misc{africa_comtrade_burundi_exports_by_commodity_2023,
  title        = {Burundi — Exports by Commodity (HS6) | 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-burundi-exports-by-commodity}}
}

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

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