electricsheepafrica/africa-comtrade-central-african-rep-exports-by-commodity

Central African Rep. — Exports by Commodity (HS6) | Africa (UN Comtrade)

🌍 2,146 observations · 1 Africa countries · 2000–2023 · Repackaged by Electric Sheep Africa

TL;DR

This dataset contains 2,146 observations of International merchandise trade data across 1 Africa countries, spanning 2000–2023, covering 793 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
Central African Rep.	2,146	2000	2023

Indicators (sample)

• 010290 — 010290 - Bovine animals; live, other than cattle and buffalo
• 010519 — 010519 - -- Other
• 010600 — 010600 - Other live animals.
• 020210 — 020210 - Meat; of bovine animals, carcasses and half-carcasses, frozen
• 020712 — 020712 - Meat and edible offal; of fowls of the species Gallus domesticus, not cut in pieces, frozen
• 020714 — 020714 - Meat and edible offal; of fowls of the species Gallus domesticus, cuts and offal, frozen
• 030549 — 030549 - Fish; smoked, whether or not cooked before or during smoking, n.e.c. in item no. 0305.4, includes fillets, but excludes edible fish offal
• 040221 — 040221 - Dairy produce; milk and cream, concentrated, not containing added sugar or other sweetening matter, in powder, granules or other solid forms, of a fat content exceeding 1.5% (by weight)
• 040229 — 040229 - Dairy produce; milk and cream, containing added sugar or other sweetening matter, in powder, granules or other solid forms, of a fat content exceeding 1.5% (by weight)
• 040299 — 040299 - Dairy produce; milk and cream, containing added sugar or other sweetening matter, other than in powder, granules or other solid forms
• ... and 783 more indicators

Schema

Column	Type	Description	Example
country_name	string	—	Central African Rep.
country_iso3	string	—	CAF
commodity_code	string	—	820210
commodity	string	—	820210 - Tools, hand; hand saws
year	int64	—	2000
flow	string	—	exports
trade_value_usd	float64	—	2952.0

Usage

from datasets import load_dataset

ds = load_dataset("electricsheepafrica/africa-comtrade-central-african-rep-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"] == "820210"]
          .sort_values("year"))
sample.plot(x="year", y="trade_value_usd", title="820210")

Pivot to country × year matrix

matrix = (df[df["commodity_code"] == "820210"]
          .pivot_table(index="year", columns="country_name", values="trade_value_usd"))
print(matrix.tail())

Citation

@misc{africa_comtrade_central_african_rep_exports_by_commodity_2023,
  title        = {Central African Rep. — 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-central-african-rep-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/