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

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

🌍 23,698 observations · 1 Africa countries · 2007–2023 · Repackaged by Electric Sheep Africa

TL;DR

This dataset contains 23,698 observations of International merchandise trade data across 1 Africa countries, spanning 2007–2023, covering 3021 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
Congo	23,698	2007	2023

Indicators (sample)

• 010110 — 010110 - - Pure-bred breeding animals
• 010511 — 010511 - Poultry; live, fowls of the species Gallus domesticus, weighing not more than 185g
• 010594 — 010594 - Poultry; live, fowls of the species Gallus domesticus, weighing more than 185g
• 010599 — 010599 - Poultry; live, ducks, geese, turkeys and guinea fowls, weighing more than 185g
• 010619 — 010619 - Mammals; live, other than primates, whales, dolphins, porpoises (mammals of the order Cetacea); manatees, dugongs (mammals of the order Sirenia); seals, sea lions, walruses (mammals of the suborder Pinnipedia), camels, other camelids, rabbits and hares
• 010690 — 010690 - Animals; live, n.e.c. in chapter 01, other than mammals, reptiles, birds and insects
• 020120 — 020120 - Meat; of bovine animals, cuts with bone in (excluding carcasses and half-carcasses), fresh or chilled
• 020220 — 020220 - Meat; of bovine animals, cuts with bone in (excluding carcasses and half-carcasses), frozen
• 020230 — 020230 - Meat; of bovine animals, boneless cuts, frozen
• 020311 — 020311 - Meat; of swine, carcasses and half-carcasses, fresh or chilled
• ... and 3011 more indicators

Schema

Column	Type	Description	Example
country_name	string	—	Congo
country_iso3	string	—	COG
commodity_code	string	—	391729
commodity	string	—	391729 - Plastics; tubes, pipes and h…
year	int64	—	2007
flow	string	—	exports
trade_value_usd	float64	—	115212.0

Usage

from datasets import load_dataset

ds = load_dataset("electricsheepafrica/africa-comtrade-congo-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"] == "391729"]
          .sort_values("year"))
sample.plot(x="year", y="trade_value_usd", title="391729")

Pivot to country × year matrix

matrix = (df[df["commodity_code"] == "391729"]
          .pivot_table(index="year", columns="country_name", values="trade_value_usd"))
print(matrix.tail())

Citation

@misc{africa_comtrade_congo_exports_by_commodity_2023,
  title        = {Congo — 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-congo-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.

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