Analytics, Estonia, Statistics

“A picture says more than a thousand words – that is the reason for why we started creating a tool for visualizing foreign trade statistics,” explained Karl Annus, project manager for digital services. “The volume of foreign trade transactions in Estonia sometimes reaches billions of euros and most of us have a difficult time picturing this. The application visualizes the trade flows on the screen and helps us better perceive the share and value of the goods in the trade of Estonia, selected countries or within the particular group of goods,” Annus added. Exports and imports can also be displayed on maps.

The application includes information on the main partner countries of Estonia’s exports and imports and the main commodities imported and exported. It is possible to download both graphic representations as well as the relevant data. The data can be visualized by year, quarter and month and by countries of origin, consignment and destination.

Try the application HERE.

Commodities are visualized using the Combined Nomenclature (CN). The Combined Nomenclature is the goods classification used within the European Union for the purposes of foreign trade statistics and customs duties. It is a further development of the World Customs Organization’s Harmonized System (HS) nomenclature.

The data for visualizations are obtained from Statistics Estonia’s public statistical database .Stat tables VK10_1, VK10_2 and VK10_3. The data are updated every month after the release of foreign trade data in the database. See the release times in the release calendar.