Foreign Policy Index

The Foreign Policy Index (FPI) provides an annual measurement of Brazil’s bilateral engagement with nations around the world, bringing together in a single indicator different dimensions of the country’s international interaction.

The FPI aims to contribute to the evaluation of Brazilian foreign policy, establishing an objective and replicable empirical instrument, allowing the monitoring of Brazil’s level of bilateral engagement over time.

The data used to construct the FPI cover imports and exports, bilateral agreements, presidential trips, congruence in regional blocs and international organizations, covering a substantial part of the country’s bilateral relations in the world. The time series runs from 1998 to 2024.

The FPI updates the work of Rodrigues, Urdinez e Oliveira (2019), who constructed the foreign policy index for the first time for the years 1998 to 2014. The table below describes the index variables.

Table 1. Foreign Policy Index (FPI) Variables

Variable	Description	Source
Exports and Imports	Annual exports and imports by country (U.S.$) FOB	Comex Stat MDIC
Bilateral Agreements	Number of Bilateral Agreements per year	Concórdia Itamaraty
Convergence in International Financial Institutions	Measure of support for Brazil’s representation on the executive boards of the IMF, World Bank and co-participation in coalitions in the WTO. Ranges from 0 to 1.	International Monetary Fund, World Bank and World Trade Organization.
Presidential Trip	Number of official visits by the Brazilian head of state to the country per year	Library of the Brazilian Presidency of the Republic
Joint participation in regional arrangements	Number of regional arrangements that the country co-participates with Brazil per year	Brazilian Foreign Relations Ministry

Factor analysis was used to produce the FPI by aggregating all the variables highlighted above. This technique allows the reduction of the data dimensionality into a few components, enabling the creation of a single index. The first three dimensions resulting from the factor analysis were maintained. These dimensions represent, in order of relevance, commercial insertion (exports and imports), diplomatic insertion (presidential trips and bilateral agreements), and regional and international organizations insertions (regional congruence and in international financial institutions). After generating the factors and rotating the resulting matrix, the explained variation of each of the three components was used as a weight in the estimation of the mean to combine the factors into a single variable, resulting in the foreign policy index (FPI). After this process, the values represented in the FPI were standardized to vary from 0 to 1, with 0 being the lowest possible international engagement and 1 its maximum value.

Below, we report some relevant indicators of the FPI estimation. Table 2 below shows the communalities of the factor analysis. This indicator returns the proportion of variances associated with the factors estimated in the factor analysis by variable. The closer to “one”, the better represented the variables will be in the common factor space. Variables with an extraction indicator greater than 0.5 should be included in the final index. It is important to mention that the variables presence of an embassy, convergence in the UN General Assembly and participation in extra-regional arrangements did not survive this criterion and were excluded from the composition of the index, despite being part of the original index by Rodrigues, Urdinez and Oliveira (2019). These variables are available in the second database below, called “Disaggregated Foreign Policy Index”, in addition to other data to facilitate the analysis. As we can see in Table 2 below, the variables inserted survive the estimation criterion.

Table 2. Communalities – Factor Analysis

Variable	Extraction
Exports	.957
Imports	.957
Bilateral Agreements	.730
International Trips	.718
Regional Congruence	.718
International Financial Institutions Congruence	.714

We also show in Table 3, below, the explained variance of the three dimensions estimated in the factor analysis. We used varimax rotation in the estimation. The first dimension denotes trade, the second denotes diplomacy, while the third alludes to regional arrangements and countries support for Brazil at the international financial institutions. As the table shows, the three dimensions have similar weights (% of variance), with a slight advantage for the trade dimension. With the three dimensions, approximately 80% of the total variance is explained, indicating good adequacy of the estimation. It is also important to mention the performance of robustness check tests. The first was the Kaiser-Meyer-Olkin sample adequacy test, with a value of 0.5677. The ideal are values above 0.6, a value very close to that achieved, but still at the lower limit. The second test was Bartlett’s sphericity test, rejecting the null hypothesis that the correlation matrix is an identity matrix. The indicator is significant and demonstrates adequacy. After presenting the three tables relating to the index estimation, you will find two databases to manipulate the index by country between 1998 and 2024, as well as an interactive map to explore below.

Table 3. Explained Variance – Factor Analysis

Dimension	Initial Eigen Values			Sum of Square Rotations
Dimension	Total	% Variance	Acumulated %	Total	% Variance	Acumulated %
1(Trade)	2,296	38,2	38,2	1,927	32,1	32,1
2(Diplomacy)	1,435	23,9	62,1	1,448	24,1	58,2
3(Regional)	1,063	17,7	79,9	1,420	23,6	79,9

Foreign Policy Index Interactive Map

Use the “country” and “fpi” filters to manipulate the map above. The other filters change the data in the table below

country:

iso_a3:

year:

fpi:

export:

import:

acordos_total:

international_trip:

regional:

finantial_congruence:

wdt_ID	wdt_created_by	wdt_created_at	wdt_last_edited_by	wdt_last_edited_at	country	iso_a3	year	fpi	export	import	acordos_total
40081	pedrofeliu	10/09/2025 17:09	pedrofeliu	10/09/2025 17:09	Afghanistan	AFG	2024	0.14	3,098,112.0	1,018,765.0	0
40082	pedrofeliu	10/09/2025 17:09	pedrofeliu	10/09/2025 17:09	Afghanistan	AFG	2023	0.14	4,025,760.0	298,651.0	0
40083	pedrofeliu	10/09/2025 17:09	pedrofeliu	10/09/2025 17:09	Afghanistan	AFG	2022	0.12	2,751,417.0	303,499.0	0
40084	pedrofeliu	10/09/2025 17:09	pedrofeliu	10/09/2025 17:09	Afghanistan	AFG	2021	0.21	15,834,475.0	621,595.0	0
40085	pedrofeliu	10/09/2025 17:09	pedrofeliu	10/09/2025 17:09	Afghanistan	AFG	2020	0.25	37,429,851.0	218,701.0	0
40086	pedrofeliu	10/09/2025 17:09	pedrofeliu	10/09/2025 17:09	Afghanistan	AFG	2019	0.24	32,459,656.0	454,393.0	0
40087	pedrofeliu	10/09/2025 17:09	pedrofeliu	10/09/2025 17:09	Afghanistan	AFG	2018	0.21	16,994,642.0	419,589.0	0
40088	pedrofeliu	10/09/2025 17:09	pedrofeliu	10/09/2025 17:09	Afghanistan	AFG	2017	0.18	9,276,428.0	219,001.0	0
40089	pedrofeliu	10/09/2025 17:09	pedrofeliu	10/09/2025 17:09	Afghanistan	AFG	2016	0.17	8,782,814.0	152,864.0	0
40090	pedrofeliu	10/09/2025 17:09	pedrofeliu	10/09/2025 17:09	Afghanistan	AFG	2015	0.16	6,706,901.0	280,870.0	0
40091	pedrofeliu	10/09/2025 17:09	pedrofeliu	10/09/2025 17:09	Afghanistan	AFG	2014	0.19	11,721,368.0	909,706.0	0
40092	pedrofeliu	10/09/2025 17:09	pedrofeliu	10/09/2025 17:09	Afghanistan	AFG	2013	0.19	12,468,229.0	243,322.0	0
40093	pedrofeliu	10/09/2025 17:09	pedrofeliu	10/09/2025 17:09	Afghanistan	AFG	2012	0.60	8,366,059.0	121,977.0	2
40094	pedrofeliu	10/09/2025 17:09	pedrofeliu	10/09/2025 17:09	Afghanistan	AFG	2011	0.19	10,833,987.0	692,078.0	0
40095	pedrofeliu	10/09/2025 17:09	pedrofeliu	10/09/2025 17:09	Afghanistan	AFG	2010	0.17	8,350,508.0	35,990.0	0
40096	pedrofeliu	10/09/2025 17:09	pedrofeliu	10/09/2025 17:09	Afghanistan	AFG	2009	0.17	8,764,299.0	97,822.0	0
40097	pedrofeliu	10/09/2025 17:09	pedrofeliu	10/09/2025 17:09	Afghanistan	AFG	2008	0.16	7,670,243.0	168,576.0	0
40098	pedrofeliu	10/09/2025 17:09	pedrofeliu	10/09/2025 17:09	Afghanistan	AFG	2007	0.13	3,207,691.0	579,778.0	0
40099	pedrofeliu	10/09/2025 17:09	pedrofeliu	10/09/2025 17:09	Afghanistan	AFG	2006	0.38	2,683,261.0	293,094.0	1
40100	pedrofeliu	10/09/2025 17:09	pedrofeliu	10/09/2025 17:09	Afghanistan	AFG	2005	0.10	1,452,278.0	321,099.0	0
40101	pedrofeliu	10/09/2025 17:09	pedrofeliu	10/09/2025 17:09	Afghanistan	AFG	2004	0.06	172,025.0	326,752.0	0
40102	pedrofeliu	10/09/2025 17:09	pedrofeliu	10/09/2025 17:09	Afghanistan	AFG	2003	0.06	336,773.0	207,271.0	0
40103	pedrofeliu	10/09/2025 17:09	pedrofeliu	10/09/2025 17:09	Afghanistan	AFG	2002	0.09	1,847.0	934,455.0	0
40104	pedrofeliu	10/09/2025 17:09	pedrofeliu	10/09/2025 17:09	Afghanistan	AFG	2001	0.10	16,652.0	1,489,628.0	0
40105	pedrofeliu	10/09/2025 17:09	pedrofeliu	10/09/2025 17:09	Afghanistan	AFG	2000	0.09	8,656.0	1,120,562.0	0

Note: Version updated on 05/27/2025. Some modifications were made in relation to the first published version

wdt_ID	wdt_created_by	wdt_created_at	wdt_last_edited_by	wdt_last_edited_at	Name of the Variable	Description	Source	External Link
52	pedrofeliu	27/05/2025 19:18	pedrofeliu	27/05/2025 19:18	country	Country name in English
53	pedrofeliu	27/05/2025 19:18	pedrofeliu	27/05/2025 19:18	iso3	Country ISOA3 code	ISO 3166 international standard	https://www.iban.com/country-codes
54	pedrofeliu	27/05/2025 19:18	pedrofeliu	27/05/2025 19:18	year	Year
55	pedrofeliu	27/05/2025 19:18	pedrofeliu	27/05/2025 19:18	fpi	Foreign Policy Index. Ranges from 0 to 1. See description at the beginning of this page	POLEN (2024)
56	pedrofeliu	27/05/2025 19:18	pedrofeliu	27/05/2025 19:18	export	Annual exports by country in US$ FOB	Comex Stat MDIC	https://comexstat.mdic.gov.br/pt/geral
57	pedrofeliu	27/05/2025 19:18	pedrofeliu	27/05/2025 19:18	import	Annual imports by country in US$ FOB	Comex Stat MDIC	https://comexstat.mdic.gov.br/pt/geral
58	pedrofeliu	27/05/2025 19:18	pedrofeliu	27/05/2025 19:18	acordos_total	Total number of bilateral agreements per year	Concórdia Itamaraty	https://concordia.itamaraty.gov.br/
59	pedrofeliu	27/05/2025 19:18	pedrofeliu	27/05/2025 19:18	international_trip	Number of official presidential trips per year	Library of the Presidency of the Republic	http://www.biblioteca.presidencia.gov.br/presidencia
60	pedrofeliu	27/05/2025 19:18	pedrofeliu	27/05/2025 19:18	regional	Average participation of countries in the same regional blocs as Brazil	Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MRE)	https://www.gov.br/mre/pt-br/assuntos/mecanismos-internacionais/mecanismos-de-integracao-regional
61	pedrofeliu	27/05/2025 19:18	pedrofeliu	27/05/2025 19:18	finantial_congruence	Support and joint participation in International Financial Organizations	IMF, World Bank, World Trade Organization	https://www.imf.org; https://www.worldbank.org; https://www.wto.org

Feliu Ribeiro, P. (2024). POLEN (v1.01) [Data set]. Zenodo. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.14015246. Avaiable at: polen.iri.usp.br

Foreign Policy Index by country and year (1998-2024)

Disaggregated Foreign Policy Index Data Base

Use the filters below to manipulate the information. The database below displays all the variables used in estimating the Foreign Policy Index, as well as a series of data to facilitate aggregated analysis and graphical visualization

wdt_ID					country	year	iso3	ano_iso3	brics	ibas	asa	aspa	cplp	interregion	prosul	unasul	otca	aladi	celac	regional	imf_board	imf_g20	imf	wb_ibrd	wb_miga	wb_ida	wb_ifc	wb_coalition	wto_congruence	wto_cairns	wto_mercosul	wto_g20	wto_nama11	wto_fan	wto_w52	finantial_congruence	mercosul	international_trip	embassy	acordos_total	global_south	global_north	eu_mem	oecd	region_pol	region_n	income	brazilagree	export	import	trade_dim	diplomatic_dim	regional_dim	fpi
wdt_ID	wdt_created_by	wdt_created_at	wdt_last_edited_by	wdt_last_edited_at	country	year	iso3	ano_iso3	brics	ibas	asa	aspa	cplp	interregion	prosul	unasul	otca	aladi	celac	regional	imf_board	imf_g20	imf	wb_ibrd	wb_miga	wb_ida	wb_ifc	wb_coalition	wto_congruence	wto_cairns	wto_mercosul	wto_g20	wto_nama11	wto_fan	wto_w52	finantial_congruence	mercosul	international_trip	embassy	acordos_total	global_south	global_north	eu_mem	oecd	region_pol	region_n	income	brazilagree	export	import	trade_dim	diplomatic_dim	regional_dim	fpi
20521	pedrofeliu	10/09/2025 20:21	pedrofeliu	10/09/2025 20:21	United States	2007	USA	2007USA	0	0	0	0	0	0.00	0	0	0	0	0	0.00	0	1	0.33	0	0	0	0	0	0.00	0	0	0	0	0	0	0.11	0	2	1	4	0	1	0	1	North America	3	High income: OECD	0.08	25,051,277,380.0	18,694,749,728.0	0.99	0.99	0.00	0.99
20522	pedrofeliu	10/09/2025 20:21	pedrofeliu	10/09/2025 20:21	United States	2008	USA	2008USA	0	0	0	0	0	0.00	0	0	0	0	0	0.00	0	1	0.33	0	0	0	0	0	0.00	0	0	0	0	0	0	0.11	0	2	1	4	0	1	0	1	North America	3	High income: OECD	0.08	26,547,483,489.0	25,619,467,651.0	0.99	0.99	0.00	1.00
20523	pedrofeliu	10/09/2025 20:21	pedrofeliu	10/09/2025 20:21	Nauru	2009	NRU	2009NRU	0	0	0	0	0	0.00	0	0	0	0	0	0.00	0	0	0.00	0	0	0	0	0	0.00	0	0	0	0	0	0	0.00	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	East Asia & Pacific	6	Upper middle income	0.10	0.0	4,508.0	0.20	0.74	0.45	0.01
20524	pedrofeliu	10/09/2025 20:21	pedrofeliu	10/09/2025 20:21	United States	2009	USA	2009USA	0	0	0	0	0	0.00	0	0	0	0	0	0.00	0	1	0.33	0	0	0	0	0	0.00	0	0	0	0	0	0	0.11	0	1	1	1	0	1	0	1	North America	3	High income: OECD	0.10	15,598,663,462.0	20,027,835,508.0	0.99	0.93	0.01	0.99
20525	pedrofeliu	10/09/2025 20:21	pedrofeliu	10/09/2025 20:21	Israel	2009	ISR	2009ISR	0	0	0	0	0	0.00	0	0	0	0	0	0.00	0	0	0.00	0	0	0	0	0	0.17	0	0	0	0	1	0	0.17	0	0	1	5	0	1	0	1	Middle East & North Africa	4	High income: OECD	0.11	270,436,813.0	651,501,924.0	0.07	0.92	0.50	0.82
20526	pedrofeliu	10/09/2025 20:21	pedrofeliu	10/09/2025 20:21	United States	2010	USA	2010USA	0	0	0	0	0	0.00	0	0	0	0	0	0.00	0	1	0.33	0	0	0	0	0	0.00	0	0	0	0	0	0	0.11	0	1	1	6	0	1	0	1	North America	3	High income: OECD	0.12	19,300,479,652.0	27,037,850,446.0	0.99	0.97	0.00	0.99
20527	pedrofeliu	10/09/2025 20:21	pedrofeliu	10/09/2025 20:21	United States	2006	USA	2006USA	0	0	0	0	0	0.00	0	0	0	0	0	0.00	0	1	0.33	0	0	0	0	0	0.00	0	0	0	0	0	0	0.11	0	1	1	2	0	1	0	1	North America	3	High income: OECD	0.12	24,507,393,303.0	14,569,578,037.0	0.99	0.94	0.01	0.99
20528	pedrofeliu	10/09/2025 20:21	pedrofeliu	10/09/2025 20:21	Nauru	2005	NRU	2005NRU	0	0	0	0	0	0.00	0	0	0	0	0	0.00	0	0	0.00	0	0	0	0	0	0.00	0	0	0	0	0	0	0.00	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	East Asia & Pacific	6	Upper middle income	0.13	0.0	0.0	0.19	0.74	0.45	0.00
20529	pedrofeliu	10/09/2025 20:21	pedrofeliu	10/09/2025 20:21	Palau	2004	PLW	2004PLW	0	0	0	0	0	0.00	0	0	0	0	0	0.00	0	0	0.00	0	0	0	0	0	0.00	0	0	0	0	0	0	0.00	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	East Asia & Pacific	7	Upper middle income	0.13	1,422.0	146,678.0	0.23	0.71	0.41	0.04
20530	pedrofeliu	10/09/2025 20:21	pedrofeliu	10/09/2025 20:21	United States	2004	USA	2004USA	0	0	0	0	0	0.00	0	0	0	0	0	0.00	0	1	0.33	0	0	0	0	0	0.00	0	0	0	0	0	0	0.11	0	1	1	1	0	1	0	1	North America	3	High income: OECD	0.13	20,002,799,431.0	11,341,054,201.0	0.99	0.93	0.02	0.98
20531	pedrofeliu	10/09/2025 20:21	pedrofeliu	10/09/2025 20:21	United States	2013	USA	2013USA	0	0	0	0	0	0.00	0	0	0	0	0	0.00	0	1	0.33	0	0	0	0	0	0.00	0	0	0	0	0	0	0.11	0	1	1	0	0	1	0	1	North America	3	High income: OECD	0.14	24,643,775,745.0	36,016,223,696.0	1.00	0.91	0.00	0.99
20532	pedrofeliu	10/09/2025 20:21	pedrofeliu	10/09/2025 20:21	United States	2005	USA	2005USA	0	0	0	0	0	0.00	0	0	0	0	0	0.00	0	1	0.33	0	0	0	0	0	0.00	0	0	0	0	0	0	0.11	0	0	1	1	0	1	0	1	North America	3	High income: OECD	0.15	22,643,537,042.0	12,642,111,993.0	0.99	0.05	0.48	0.98
20533	pedrofeliu	10/09/2025 20:21	pedrofeliu	10/09/2025 20:21	Nauru	2010	NRU	2010NRU	0	0	0	0	0	0.00	0	0	0	0	0	0.00	0	0	0.00	0	0	0	0	0	0.00	0	0	0	0	0	0	0.00	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	East Asia & Pacific	6	Upper middle income	0.15	0.0	235.0	0.19	0.74	0.45	0.00
20534	pedrofeliu	10/09/2025 20:21	pedrofeliu	10/09/2025 20:21	United States	2003	USA	2003USA	0	0	0	0	0	0.00	0	0	0	0	0	0.00	0	1	0.33	0	0	0	0	0	0.00	0	0	0	0	0	0	0.11	0	1	1	3	0	1	0	1	North America	3	High income: OECD	0.16	16,659,334,047.0	9,566,171,816.0	0.99	0.96	0.02	0.98
20535	pedrofeliu	10/09/2025 20:21	pedrofeliu	10/09/2025 20:21	United States	2001	USA	2001USA	0	0	0	0	0	0.00	0	0	0	0	0	0.00	0	1	0.33	0	0	0	0	0	0.00	0	0	0	0	0	0	0.11	0	1	1	1	0	1	0	1	North America	3	High income: OECD	0.16	14,148,268,019.0	12,856,045,350.0	0.99	0.93	0.02	0.98
20536	pedrofeliu	10/09/2025 20:21	pedrofeliu	10/09/2025 20:21	United States	2002	USA	2002USA	0	0	0	0	0	0.00	0	0	0	0	0	0.00	0	1	0.33	0	0	0	0	0	0.00	0	0	0	0	0	0	0.11	0	1	1	3	0	1	0	1	North America	3	High income: OECD	0.16	15,325,409,735.0	10,262,012,591.0	0.99	0.96	0.02	0.98
20537	pedrofeliu	10/09/2025 20:21	pedrofeliu	10/09/2025 20:21	United States	2017	USA	2017USA	0	0	0	0	0	0.00	0	0	0	0	0	0.00	0	1	0.33	0	0	0	0	0	0.00	0	0	0	0	0	0	0.11	0	0	1	1	0	1	0	1	North America	3	High income: OECD	0.17	26,872,491,075.0	27,809,786,079.0	1.00	0.02	0.02	0.99
20538	pedrofeliu	10/09/2025 20:21	pedrofeliu	10/09/2025 20:21	United States	2012	USA	2012USA	0	0	0	0	0	0.00	0	0	0	0	0	0.00	0	1	0.33	0	0	0	0	0	0.00	0	0	0	0	0	0	0.11	0	1	1	5	0	1	0	1	North America	3	High income: OECD	0.17	26,646,256,699.0	32,482,813,303.0	1.00	0.96	0.00	1.00
20539	pedrofeliu	10/09/2025 20:21	pedrofeliu	10/09/2025 20:21	United States	2014	USA	2014USA	0	0	0	0	0	0.00	0	0	0	0	0	0.00	0	1	0.33	0	0	0	0	0	0.00	0	0	0	0	0	0	0.11	0	0	1	1	0	1	0	1	North America	3	High income: OECD	0.18	27,016,702,588.0	35,015,210,707.0	1.00	0.01	0.02	0.99
20540	pedrofeliu	10/09/2025 20:21	pedrofeliu	10/09/2025 20:21	Israel	2013	ISR	2013ISR	0	0	0	0	0	0.00	0	0	0	0	0	0.00	0	0	0.00	0	0	0	0	0	0.17	0	0	0	0	1	0	0.17	0	0	1	1	0	1	0	1	Middle East & North Africa	4	High income: OECD	0.18	454,750,209.0	1,113,550,495.0	0.83	0.79	0.53	0.72
20541	pedrofeliu	10/09/2025 20:21	pedrofeliu	10/09/2025 20:21	Israel	2004	ISR	2004ISR	0	0	0	0	0	0.00	0	0	0	0	0	0.00	0	0	0.00	0	0	0	0	0	0.17	0	0	0	0	1	0	0.17	0	0	1	0	0	1	0	1	Middle East & North Africa	4	High income: OECD	0.18	213,239,244.0	501,654,158.0	0.79	0.17	0.59	0.59
20542	pedrofeliu	10/09/2025 20:21	pedrofeliu	10/09/2025 20:21	Israel	2008	ISR	2008ISR	0	0	0	0	0	0.00	0	0	0	0	0	0.00	0	0	0.00	0	0	0	0	0	0.17	0	0	0	0	1	0	0.17	0	0	1	2	0	1	0	1	Middle East & North Africa	4	High income: OECD	0.18	397,753,065.0	1,221,128,987.0	0.81	0.87	0.52	0.76
20543	pedrofeliu	10/09/2025 20:21	pedrofeliu	10/09/2025 20:21	United States	2018	USA	2018USA	0	0	0	0	0	0.00	0	0	0	0	0	0.00	0	1	0.33	0	0	0	0	0	0.00	0	0	0	0	0	0	0.11	0	0	1	0	0	1	0	1	North America	3	High income: OECD	0.19	28,697,187,835.0	32,831,387,703.0	1.00	0.00	0.02	0.99
20544	pedrofeliu	10/09/2025 20:21	pedrofeliu	10/09/2025 20:21	Marshall Islands	2001	MHL	2001MHL	0	0	0	0	0	0.00	0	0	0	0	0	0.00	0	0	0.00	0	0	0	0	0	0.00	0	0	0	0	0	0	0.00	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	East Asia & Pacific	7	Lower middle income	0.19	391.0	0.0	0.19	0.74	0.45	0.00
20545	pedrofeliu	10/09/2025 20:21	pedrofeliu	10/09/2025 20:21	Israel	2001	ISR	2001ISR	0	0	0	0	0	0.00	0	0	0	0	0	0.00	0	0	0.00	0	0	0	0	0	0.00	0	0	0	0	0	0	0.00	0	0	1	0	0	1	0	1	Middle East & North Africa	4	High income: OECD	0.19	137,569,729.0	414,354,903.0	0.75	0.40	0.11	0.35

wdt_ID	wdt_created_by	wdt_created_at	wdt_last_edited_by	wdt_last_edited_at	Variable Name	Description	Source
1	pedrofeliu	27/05/2025 19:43	pedrofeliu	27/05/2025 19:43	country	Country name in English	POLEN (2024)
2	pedrofeliu	27/05/2025 19:43	pedrofeliu	27/05/2025 19:43	year	Year	POLEN (2024)
3	pedrofeliu	27/05/2025 19:43	pedrofeliu	27/05/2025 19:43	iso3	ISOA3 country code – ISO 3166 international standard	https://www.iban.com/country-codes
4	pedrofeliu	27/05/2025 19:43	pedrofeliu	27/05/2025 19:43	fpi	Foreign Policy Index. Ranges from 0 to 1. See description at the beginning of this page	POLEN (2024)
5	pedrofeliu	27/05/2025 19:43	pedrofeliu	27/05/2025 19:43	trade_dim	Scores of the first dimension of the factor analysis – see information at the top of this page	POLEN (2024)
6	pedrofeliu	27/05/2025 19:43	pedrofeliu	27/05/2025 19:43	diplomatic_dim	Scores of the second dimension of the factor analysis – see information at the top of this page	POLEN (2024)
7	pedrofeliu	27/05/2025 19:43	pedrofeliu	27/05/2025 19:43	regional_dim	Scores of the third dimension of the factor analysis – see information at the top of this page	POLEN (2024)
8	pedrofeliu	27/05/2025 19:43	pedrofeliu	27/05/2025 19:43	export	Annual exports by country in US$ FOB	Comex Stat MDIC – https://comexstat.mdic.gov.br/pt/geral
9	pedrofeliu	27/05/2025 19:43	pedrofeliu	27/05/2025 19:43	import	Annual imports by country in US$ FOB	Comex Stat MDIC – https://comexstat.mdic.gov.br/pt/geral
10	pedrofeliu	27/05/2025 19:43	pedrofeliu	27/05/2025 19:43	acordos_total	Total number of bilateral agreements per year	Concórdia Itamaraty – https://concordia.itamaraty.gov.br/
11	pedrofeliu	27/05/2025 19:43	pedrofeliu	27/05/2025 19:43	international_trip	Number of official presidential trips per year	Library of the Presidency of the Republic – http://www.biblioteca.presidencia.gov.br/presidencia
12	pedrofeliu	27/05/2025 19:43	pedrofeliu	27/05/2025 19:43	brazilagree	Distance of ideal points between Brazil and the country. Ideal points estimated with votes in the UN General Assembly	Voeten, Erik, Anton Strezhnev, and Michael Bailey. 2009. “United Nations General Assembly Voting Data.” Harvard Dataverse. https://doi.org/doi:10.7910/DVN/LEJUQZ.
13	pedrofeliu	27/05/2025 19:43	pedrofeliu	27/05/2025 19:43	interregion	Average weighted by the participation of countries with a weight of 2 for the CPLP and the BRICS and 1 for the others	POLEN (2024)
14	pedrofeliu	27/05/2025 19:43	pedrofeliu	27/05/2025 19:43	brics	Participates in BRICS (1- yes, 0-no)	BRICS – https://brics.br
15	pedrofeliu	27/05/2025 19:43	pedrofeliu	27/05/2025 19:43	ibas	Participates in IBAS (1- yes, 0-no)	IBAS – https://www.ibsa-trilateral.org/pt/index.html
16	pedrofeliu	27/05/2025 19:43	pedrofeliu	27/05/2025 19:43	asa	Participates in ASA (1- yes, 0-no)	ASA – https://www.asa-international.com
17	pedrofeliu	27/05/2025 19:43	pedrofeliu	27/05/2025 19:43	aspa	Participates in ASPA (1- yes, 0-no)	ASPA – https://www.un.org/unispal/document-source/summit-of-south-american-arab-countries-aspa/
18	pedrofeliu	27/05/2025 19:43	pedrofeliu	27/05/2025 19:43	cplp	Participates in CPLP (1- yes, 0-no)	CPLP – https://www.cplp.org
19	pedrofeliu	27/05/2025 19:43	pedrofeliu	27/05/2025 19:43	regional	Average participation of countries in the same regional blocs as Brazil	POLEN (2024)
20	pedrofeliu	27/05/2025 19:43	pedrofeliu	27/05/2025 19:43	prosul	Participates in PROSUL (1- yes, 0-no)	PROSUR – https://prosur.org/
21	pedrofeliu	27/05/2025 19:43	pedrofeliu	27/05/2025 19:43	unasul	Participates in UNASUL (1- yes, 0-no)	UNASUL – http://www.unasursg.org
22	pedrofeliu	27/05/2025 19:43	pedrofeliu	27/05/2025 19:43	otca	Participates in OTCA (1- yes, 0-no)	OTCA – https://otca.org
23	pedrofeliu	27/05/2025 19:43	pedrofeliu	27/05/2025 19:43	aladi	Participates in ALADI (1- yes, 0-no)	ALADI – https://www.aladi.org
24	pedrofeliu	27/05/2025 19:43	pedrofeliu	27/05/2025 19:43	celac	Participates in CELAC (1- yes, 0-no)	CELAC – https://celacinternational.org/celac-2-2/
25	pedrofeliu	27/05/2025 19:43	pedrofeliu	27/05/2025 19:43	imf	Composed of the proportion of support on the IMF executive board (weight 2) and participation in the G20 (weight 1)	POLEN (2024)

Feliu Ribeiro, P. (2024). POLEN (v1.01) [Data set]. Zenodo. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.14015246. Avaiable at: polen.iri.usp.br

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