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Long Time Series (1964-2017)
This page contains a long-time series dataset for the Economic Complexity Index (ECI) and the Product Complexity Index (PCI) constructed using a combination of the data generated by Robert Feenstra et al. (2005) expanded after the year 2000 using SITC-4 rev. 2 data downloaded from the UN’s Comtrade. This is the series data used in the original 2009 Economic Complexity paper (Hidalgo and Hausmann 2009) and the 2011/2014 book (The Atlas of Economic Complexity).
This time series has been discontinued, since the SITC-4 rev 2 product categorization has become outdated in comparison to modern revisions of the Harmonized system. For the latest ECI and PCI data click respectively here (ECI) and here (PCI).
A summary of the methods can be found in the methods section and in this review paper.
References:
Feenstra, Robert C., Robert E. Lipsey, Haiyan Deng, Alyson Ma, and Hengyong Mo. "World trade flows: 1962-2000." (2005).
Hidalgo, César A., and Ricardo Hausmann. "The building blocks of economic complexity." Proceedings of the national academy of sciences 106, no. 26 (2009): 10570-10575.
Hausmann, Ricardo, César A. Hidalgo, Sebastián Bustos, Michele Coscia, and Alexander Simoes. The atlas of economic complexity: Mapping paths to prosperity. Mit Press, 2014.
