Kiel Institute Data Hub

Africa Debt Database

• Working Paper and Africa Debt Database, Data on over 7500 loans and bonds to African sovereigns 2000-2020.
  This data should be cited as coming from Mihalyi, D. &. Trebesch, C. (2023).  "Who Lends to Africa and How: Introducting the Africa Debt Database" Kiel Working Paper 2117,

Africa Infrastructure Database

• Working Paper and Africa Infrastructure Database, The world's largest open database of identified infrastructure assets, businesses, and economic geography in Africa — comprising 15.1 million points of interest and 4.4 million km of network infrastructure in 54 economic categories, alongside high-resolution data on household wealth, economic activity, population, and accessibility. It is provided in both raw form and aggregated (by category) over a 96km2 (9.7km diameter) hexagonal equal-area grid. This data should be cited as coming from Krantz, S. (2024). "Mapping Africa’s Infrastructure Potential with Geospatial Big Data and Causal ML". Kiel Working Paper 2276.

China debt stock dataset

• March 2021 update of China debt stock dataset, estimates by country and year, 2000-2017 (direct loans). The 04/2020 version can be found here.
• Loan-level dataset and full replication material
• Journal Article "China´s overseas lending" 
  This data should be cited as coming from “Horn, S., Reinhart, C. M., Trebesch C. (2021). China's Overseas Lending. Journal of International Economics: 133 103539; https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jinteco.2021.103539.

Chinese Aid Exports Database

• The Chinese Aid Exports Database provides data on China’s (medical and non-medical) aid exports as reported by China’s General Administration of Customs. It contains two series: one lists aid exports by (recipient) country and month; the other by Chinese province and month. The series begins in 2015 and will be extended as later data become available.

Foreign Exchange Interventions

• Database - Foreign Exchange Intervention, Data of monthly foreign exchange interventions for 49 countries over up to 22 years.
  This data should be cited as coming from“Fratzscher, M., Heidland, T., Menkhoff, L. et al. Foreign Exchange Intervention: A New Database. IMF Econ Rev 71, 852–884 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1057/s41308-022-00190-8”.

Trade & Investment related datasets

• AFiD-Panel Außenhandelsstatistik (AHS-Panel) [restricted access] - Microdata from foreign trade statistics for Germany
• FDI of USA, Germany & Japan – Annual Stockdata, by countries of destination and sectors
• World Trade by Commodity Classes and Regions in percent of total
• World Trade by Commodity Classes and Regions in percent of total – Historical Data (break 2018)
• World Trade by Commodity Classes and Regions in percent of total – Historical Data (break 2008)

Political Leader’s Affiliation Database (PLAD)

• The PLAD website provides access to a broad range of sources on the personal characteristics of political leaders (see Data page). We also provide our own data – the Political Leaders’ Affiliation Database (PLAD) – which contains a wealth of information, including geocoded information on the birthplaces and ethnicities of the effective leaders of 177 countries around the world over the 1989-2023 period.

Please cite the PLAD as: Bomprezzi, Pietro; Dreher, Axel; Fuchs, Andreas; Hailer, Teresa; Kammerlander, Andreas; Kaplan, Lennart; Marchesi, Silvia; Masi, Tania; Robert, Charlotte; Unfried, Kerstin (2024). Wedded to Prosperity? Informal Influence and Regional Favoritism. CEPR Discussion Paper 18878.

Indian Development Finance Dataset

The website indiandevelopmentfinance.net is the result of a collaboration between the ETH Zurich, Heidelberg University, the University of Göttingen, the Kiel Institute, and AidData, a research lab at William & Mary. It serves as a platform to share digitized and geocoded project-level information on all Indian development cooperation projects reported in official documents of India’s Ministry of External Affairs (MEA) and the Export-Import Bank of India (Exim) between 2007-2014.

When using either dataset, please cite as: Asmus, G., Eichenauer, V.Z., Fuchs, A., and Parks, B. (2021). Does India Use Development Finance to Compete with China? A Subnational Analysis. AidData Working Paper #110. Williamsburg, VA: AidData at William & Mary.

Social Accounting Matrices

• Mexico Social Accounting Matrix, 2008
• Bolivia Social Accounting Matrix, 2012
• Yemen Social Accounting Matrix, 2012

Additional data

• German Management and Organizational Practices (GMOP) Survey 2008 & 2013 [restricted access] - establishment data set on management practices and firm success