As part of the Mapping Globalization Project, we have explored ways to visualize international trade as a network. Network maps can often seem like nothing more than random lines, but using the technology developed by NetMap Analytics, we have developed some techniques for exploring contemporary trade visually.
This page provides an interface for navigating a large number of NetMap trade studies. In the images, which preserve an enormous amount of detail, boxes each represent a country. Each box is color-coded by continent in accordance with United Nations designations.
The countries are organized in a circle, and then repeated in the smaller surrounding circles. The dark green lines connecting countries in the outer circles represent trade links within that grouping or continent. The lines in the very center of the circle represent inter-group, or inter-continental trade.
For details, see Brief Introduction to the Data and Selected Images from the GKG Project prepared by Miguel Centeno and Abigail Cooke, 2006.
In the following tables, an entry of “0.3%” means that links corresponding to a trade share less than 0.3% of the total dollar value in the category are not shown.
Global Trade
Commodity | 1980 | 1990 | 2001 |
---|---|---|---|
Total | no threshold | ||
Total | Top 25% | Top 25% | Top 25% |
Total | Top 50% | Top 50% | Top 50% |
Total | Top 75% | Top 75% | Top 75% |
UN Continent Groups
Commodity | 1980 | 1990 | 2001 |
---|---|---|---|
Total | 0.3% |
Regional Trade Alliance Groupings
Commodity | 1980 | 1990 | 2001 |
---|---|---|---|
Total | |||
Apparel & Accessories | 0.3% | 0.3% | |
Cement | 0.3% | 0.3% | |
Cork & Wood | 0.3% | 0.3% | |
Crude Fertilizer | 0.3% | 0.3% | |
Electric Current | 0.3% | 0.3% | |
Food | 0.3% | 0.3% | |
Iron & Steel Structures | 0.3% | 0.3% | |
Manufactured Fertilizers | 0.3% | 0.3% | |
Nails etc | 0.3% | 0.3% | |
Parts for Road Vehicles | 0.3% | 0.3% | |
Road Vehicles | 0.3% | 0.3% | |
Waste Paper | 0.3% | 0.3% |
Econopolitical Groupings
Commodity | 1980 | 1990 | 2001 |
---|---|---|---|
Total Commodities | 0.3% | 0.3% | |
Total Commodities | Top 25% | Top 25% | |
Total Commodities | Top 50% | ||
Total Commodities | Top 75% |
Emergent Groupings
Commodity | 1980 | 1990 | 2001 |
---|---|---|---|
Total | no threshold | no threshold | no threshold |
Total | 0.3% | 0.3% | 0.3% |
WTA Groupings
Commodity | 1980 | 1990 | 2001 |
---|---|---|---|
Total | 0.3% | 0.3% | 0.3% |
Intra-Regional Trade
Africa
Commodity | 1980 | 1990 | 2001 |
---|---|---|---|
Total | Top 25% | Top 25% | Top 25% |
Total | Top 50% | Top 50% | Top 50% |
Total | Top 75% | Top 75% | Top 75% |
Commodity | 1980 | 1990 | 2001 |
---|---|---|---|
Total | Top 50% | Top 50% | Top 50% |
The Americas
Commodity | 1980 | 1990 | 2001 |
---|---|---|---|
Total | Top 25% | Top 25% | Top 25% |
Total | Top 50% | Top 50% | Top 50% |
Total | Top 75% | Top 75% | Top 75% |
Commodity | 1980 | 1990 | 2001 |
---|---|---|---|
Total | Top 50% | Top 50% | Top 50% |
Asia-Pacific
Commodity | 1980 | 1990 | 2001 |
---|---|---|---|
Total | Top 25% | Top 25% | Top 25% |
Total | Top 50% | Top 50% | Top 50% |
Total | Top 75% | Top 75% | Top 75% |
CIS
Commodity | 1980 | 1990 | 2001 |
---|---|---|---|
Total | Top 25% | ||
Total | Top 50% | ||
Total | Top 75% |
Europe
Commodity | 1980 | 1990 | 2001 |
---|---|---|---|
Total | Top 25% | Top 25% | Top 25% |
Total | Top 50% | Top 50% | Top 50% |
Total | Top 75% | Top 75% | Top 75% |
See also: #Africa
MENA
Commodity | 1980 | 1990 | 2001 |
---|---|---|---|
Total | Top 25% | Top 25% | Top 25% |
Total | Top 50% | Top 50% | Top 50% |
Total | Top 75% | Top 75% | Top 75% |
Steplinking Studies
U.S.
Commodity | 1980 | 1990 | 2001 |
---|---|---|---|
Apparel & Accessories | 0.3% | 0.3% | |
Cement | 0.3% | 0.3% | |
Crude Fertilizers | 0.3% | 0.3% | |
Electric Current | 0.3% | 0.3% | |
Manufacture Fertilizers | 0.3% | 0.3% | |
Petroleum | 0.3% | 0.3% |
Acknowledgements
The NetMap images are produced using NetMapTM from NetMap Analytics (http://www.netmapanalytics.com).
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Miguel Centeno, Abigail Cooke, and Sara Curran. “NetMap Combined Studies.” Princeton University and University of Washington, January 2006.