EXIOBASE 3

EXIOBASE 3: For best in class environmental-economic accounting data. Get insight into global supply-chains and the environmental impacts of consumption. EXIOBASE 3 provides a time series of environmentally extended multi-regional input‐output (EE MRIO) tables for 44 countries (27 EU member plus 17 major economies) and five rest of the world regions. EXIOBASE was set up by the EXIOBASE consortium, with XIO Sustainability Analytics now working on providing annual updates to the core economic, energy and emission tables. We welcome any collaborative efforts to further improve the database. Updates are now being produced annually. Early access to future releases can be provided as part of research collaborations, get in contact if interested. A special issue of Journal of Industrial Ecology (Volume 22, Issue 3) describes the build process and some use cases of EXIOBASE 3. This includes the article by Stadler et al. (2018) describing the compilation of EXIOBASE 3. To stay updated on database improvements, relevant EXIOBASE studies, and ongoing work, join the EXIOBASE group on LinkedIn. Licenses Please ensure that you have understood the license conditions before use. Note that these conditions are significantly different to the license conditions of earlier versions, such as v3.8. Non-commercial, academic useEXIOBASE v3.9 and later is released under a customized derivative of the CC-BY-SA-NC license, incorporating additional definitions as outlined in the license file. Commercial useCommercial licenses, which allow for use for any case not covered in the non-commercial license are under development. For license enquiries or help in use of EXIOBASE data for spend-based emission factors, or other applications, please send an email. The funding to be accumulated through licenses and support will be used to fund further updates of the database. Now-casting The core EXIOBASE 3 model is based on statistical supply and use tables that usually have a 1-2 year time lag. The time-series is expanded (i.e., now-casted) until current years using global trade data and macroeconomic data (IMF), as well as environmental data when available. Caution should be made when using now-casted data, due to the higher levels of data interpolation. Capital endogenisation Capital use matrices are estimated as an auxiliary dataset to these tables. They can be found at Capital use matrices for v3.8.2 and will be shortly updated for more recent versions. In the interim, it is recommended to use the coefficient form of that dataset for any work that requires capital endogenisation for v3.9. Processing the database For a general introduction to environmentally extended input-output modelling, we refer to: UN Handbook on Supply and Use Tables and Input Output-Tables with Extensions and Applications Input-Output Analysis by Miller & Blair The database is too large to handle in a standard spreadsheet software (e.g., Excel), and we recommend using programming languages such as Python, R, or Matlab. The open-source python package PyMRIO can be used to download and parse the database directly from Zenodo and do input-output analysis. If you are interested in learning more about EXIOBASE or input-output modelling in general (including practical use of PyMRIO, how to develop custom models), please reach out. Earlier versions and documentation Some previous versions (3.7, 3.8) are also available on Zenodo. The even earlier public releases of the data (EXIOBASE v3.3 and v3.4) are available on request. We recommend, however, using the latest version due to significant updates of the economic data as well as major differences in energy, emissions, water and land use accounts. The first documentation of EXIOBASE 3 was done via deliverables of the DESIRE project - these can now be accessed here. The country disaggregated version, EXIOBASE 3rx, is available on Zenodo. It is no longer continued, but including more regions in the EXIOBASE classification is ongoing work. Reach out to exiobase-support@googlegroups.com, if interested in collaboration on integrating specific countries. Concordance files are available here. Future Updates and Announcements Updates are now being produced annually, and a beta version of 3.11 is already under development. To stay updated, join the EXIOBASE group on LinkedIn and/or reach out to exiobase-support@googlegroups.com.