electricsheepafrica/africa-comtrade-dem-rep-of-the-congo-imports-by-partner

Dem. Rep. of the Congo — Imports by Trading Partner | Africa (UN Comtrade)

🌍 27,448 observations · 1 Africa countries · 2015–2023 · Repackaged by Electric Sheep Africa

TL;DR

This dataset contains 27,448 observations of International merchandise trade data across 1 Africa countries, spanning 2015–2023, covering 221 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
Dem. Rep. of the Congo	27,448	2015	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 211 more indicators

Schema

Column	Type	Description	Example
country_name	string	—	Dem. Rep. of the Congo
country_iso3	string	—	COD
partner_name	string	—	Belgium
partner_iso3	string	—	BEL
year	int64	—	2015
flow	string	—	imports
trade_value_usd	float64	—	332378380.333

Usage

from datasets import load_dataset

ds = load_dataset("electricsheepafrica/africa-comtrade-dem-rep-of-the-congo-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"] == "Belgium"]
          .sort_values("year"))
sample.plot(x="year", y="trade_value_usd", title="Belgium")

Pivot to country × year matrix

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

Citation

@misc{africa_comtrade_dem_rep_of_the_congo_imports_by_partner_2023,
  title        = {Dem. Rep. of the Congo — 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-dem-rep-of-the-congo-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

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