The newly launched forest products trade flow visualization tool helps to facilitate an almost intuitive identification of the important products and trade partners in any given country’s trade of wood-based products. Source: Timberbiz
The tool allows to quickly and intuitively filter out the data that matter most, say the team at EFI, Jo Van Brusselen and Janne Järvikylä.
The tool enables users to explore yearly global forest products trade statistics through interactive graphics. The tool is meant for a variety of users, including researchers, market specialists, NGOs looking into the nexus between trade and economic development, deforestation free products, carbon flows etc.
The team improved the functionality of the automated pdf-report options that can be customized by setting search parameters. In the background of the tool is the EFI trade flow database, which was updated to include data for the year 2021.
This forest products trade flow visualization tool helps to facilitate an almost intuitive identification of the important products and trade partners in a given country’s trade of wood-based products.
On the top of the webpage, you can select to query data on the basis of either a “Single country search” or a “Country group search”. Next, you can choose to visualize trade data either for products combined at chapter level (ie 2-digit level) of the Harmonised System, or for sub-categories thereof (at 4-digit level) and the year.
Several visualisation options are provided: bar charts and Sankey charts for the single country search, and the so-called sunburst charts for the country group search.
In every visualization option, hovering the mouse pointer over a data series will produce a pop-up with the applicable product code, product definition and additional meta-data to help with the image interpretation.
The images can be saved as PNG file either by clicking an icon on the upper right corner of the chart or by right-clicking on the image and selecting “Save image as…”. Please note that metadata will not be stored with the images.
The tool is at https://tradeflows.efi.int/
