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UNCTAD provides datasets on trade, investment, development, globalization, economic indicators and other aspects of international trade and development.
UNCTAD provides UNCTADStat with a CSV download interface and REST API. Engineers use `requests` against the UNCTADStat API with datacode and reporter parameters, then process multi-dimensional JSON into pandas DataFrames for international investment analysis.
UNCTAD investment and trade data enables AI tools for global FDI analysis and supply chain intelligence. RAG systems indexed on UNCTAD World Investment Reports answer questions about FDI trends with authoritative UN data. AI models trained on UNCTAD data predict FDI flows from regulatory and infrastructure indicators.
# pip install requests pandas
import requests, pandas as pd
resp = requests.get(
"https://unctadstat.unctad.org/datacentre/dataviewer/US.FdiFlowsCountry",
params={"output-format": "csv", "startYear": 2018, "endYear": 2023}
)
from io import StringIO
df = pd.read_csv(StringIO(resp.text), skiprows=2)
df.columns = df.columns.str.strip()
print(df.head(10))Official dataset source
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