File:US Trade Balance from 1960.svg

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Description

English: United States Balance of Trade, from 1960. Data source: U.S. Census Bureau, Economic Indicator Division: https://www.census.gov/foreign-trade/statistics/historical/gands.pdf or BEA: https://www.bea.gov/data/intl-trade-investment/international-trade-goods-and-services

Date

27 December 2018

Source

Own work

Author

Cherkash

Other versions

Same source, data from 1960 to 2009
Same source, data from 1980 to 2009
Same source, data from 1980 to 2010

SVG development

The SVG code is valid.

This plot was created with Matplotlib.

Source code

Python code

Source code

#!/usr/bin/env python

from pylab import *
rc('xtick.major', pad=8)

#from either of these:
#https://www.census.gov/foreign-trade/statistics/historical/gands.pdf
#https://www.bea.gov/data/intl-trade-investment/international-trade-goods-and-services
d = (3.508,  4.194,  3.371,  4.210,  6.022,  4.664,  2.939,  2.604,  0.250,  0.090,  2.255,  -1.301,  -5.443,  1.900,  -4.293,  12.403,  -6.082,  -27.247,  -29.763,  -24.566,  -19.407,  -16.172,  -24.156,  -57.767,  -109.074,  -121.879,  -138.539,  -151.683,  -114.566,  -93.142,  -80.865,  -31.136,  -39.212,  -70.311,  -98.493,  -96.384,  -104.065,  -108.273,  -166.140,  -255.809,  -369.686,  -360.373,  -420.666,  -496.243,  -610.838,  -716.542,  -763.533,  -710.997,  -712.350,  -394.771,  -503.087,  -554.522,  -525.906,  -446.861,  -483.952,  -491.421,  -481.475,  -512.739,  -580.950, -576.341, -676.684)

start, end = 1960, 2020
y = range(start, end+1)

f = figure(figsize=(7.5, 4.5))
ax = f.add_axes((.13, .18, .8, .75))
plot(y, d, 'r-', lw = 1.5)
plot(y, d, 'bo', ms = 5, mec = 'b')
grid(ls='-', alpha=.4)

xlabel('Year')
ylabel('Billions USD')
title('U.S. Trade Balance')

text(2020, -990, 'Data source: U.S. Census Bureau, Economic Indicator Division', va = 'bottom', ha = 'right' , size = 10)

axis((1960, 2020, -800, 100))
savefig("US Trade Balance from 1960.svg")

show()

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	Date/Time	Dimensions	User	Comment
current	23:35, 27 February 2024	894 × 552 (126 KB)	Morpheus7377	Remade the chart in Google Docs, as well as updating the chart with data from 2023.
	22:11, 23 September 2021	675 × 405 (48 KB)	Cherkash	updated with 2020; previous data is updated as well (per the latest data in the source)
	21:00, 12 July 2020	675 × 405 (47 KB)	Cherkash	updated with 2019; previous data is updated as well (per the latest data in the source)
	02:16, 6 January 2020	675 × 405 (47 KB)	Cherkash	added 2018 data; corrected previous years (per the source: the data points keep changing even years later)
	00:50, 27 December 2018	675 × 405 (47 KB)	Cherkash	removed UTF-8 byte-order-mark
	00:41, 27 December 2018	675 × 405 (47 KB)	Cherkash	corrected a small SVG error
	00:31, 27 December 2018	675 × 405 (47 KB)	Cherkash	User created page with UploadWizard