These data provide estimates of trade flows between independent states (1948-2000) and GDP per capita of independent states (1950-2000)

  Download the current version: Download the current version (4.1) of the expanded GDP and Trade Data (first posted on 21 July 2004)
  Documentation: These data are explained in greater detail in Gleditsch, Kristian S. 2002. "Expanded Trade and GDP Data," Journal of Conflict Resolution 46: 712-24.

Copyright reasons preclude making the article available on-line. If you are at an institution with a library that subscribes to the journal, you can probably download a copy from Ingenta. See my note on online access (below).

This document provides a non-technical summary of the main changes between the version of the data (2.0) described in the published article and the current version. The Perl code used to generate the data is available here. Users are warned that this code is only sparsely documented and may be platform dependent. The current data were generated on a system running RedHat Linux 7.2

  Note on opening the data: These data files are too large to be opened in Microsoft Excel. Use a plain ascii editor, for example, the Programmer's File Editor available here.

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