Are you curious about fertilizer use in developing economies? The growth of Chinese steel exports? American chocolate consumption? Which parts of the world still use typewriters? You'll find all of that and more here. This dataset covers import and export volumes for 5,000 commodities across most countries on Earth over the last 30 years. Acknowledgements This dataset was kindly published by the United Nations Statistics Division on the UNData site. You can find [the original dataset here](http://data.un.org/Explorer.aspx). Inspiration - Some of these numbers are more trustworthy than others. I'd expect that British tea imports are fairly accurate, but doubt that Afghanistan exported exactly 51 sheep in 2016. Can you identify which nations appear to have the most trustworthy data? Which industries? License [Per the UNData terms of use](http://data.un.org/Host.aspx?Content=UNdataUse): all data and metadata provided on UNdata’s website are available free of charge and may be copied freely, duplicated and further distributed provided that [UNdata](http://data.un.org/Explorer.aspx) is cited as the reference.