The International Trade and Production Database for Estimation - Release 2 (ITPD-E-R02)

This paper introduces Release 2 of the International Trade and Production Database for Estimation (ITPD-E-R02). ITPD-E-R02 covers the period 1986-2019 for 265 countries and 170 industries across four broad sectors: Agriculture, Mining and Energy, Manufacturing, and Services. Some of the improvements in the new release of the database relative to its first release include additional years, additional countries, two new industries (Forestry and Fishing), better country coding and coverage and, as a result, a significant increase in the number of observations: 72.5 million, compared to 35.8 million in the original release. ITPD-E-R02 can be downloaded from the USITC’s Gravity Portal at https://www.usitc.gov/data/gravity/itpde.htm.