This project analyzes Germany’s international trade performance using World Bank data. The goal is to examine trade balance dynamics and explore the relationship between trade balance and GDP growth.
- World Bank – Exports of goods and services (% of GDP)
- World Bank – Imports of goods and services (% of GDP)
- World Bank – GDP growth (annual %)
- Data cleaning and transformation
- Trade balance calculation
- Time series visualization
- Correlation analysis
- OLS regression model
- Germany maintains a structural trade surplus.
- Global crises such as 2008 financial crisis and COVID-19 impacted trade performance.
- GDP growth shows a relationship with trade balance trends.
- Python
- Pandas
- Matplotlib
- Seaborn
- Statsmodels
- Jupyter Notebook