A sub-national economic complexity analysis of Australia’s states and territories. Regional Studies. This paper applies economic complexity analysis to the Australian sub-national economy (nine regions with 506 exported goods and services). Using a 2009 Australian multi-regional input–output table for base data, we determine the number of export goods or services in which each state and territory has a revealed comparative advantage, and visualize the complexity of Australia’s interstate and international exports. We find that small differences in industrial capability and knowledge are crucial to relative complexity. The majority of states (especially Western Australia) export primarily resource-intensive goods, yet interstate trade has many complex products that are not currently internationally exported.

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This data collates an excerpt from Speedtest Global Index, over time (2018 - 2020), for Australia's Top Ten Trading Partners by imports and exports. Download speeds are in Mbps. Figures are rounded to nearest 5Mbps, except for % growth, and smallest observations.Australia's Top 10 Trading Partners are sourced from:- Observatory of Economic Complexity (https://oec.world).A version of this data (2018 - 19) was published in the Journal of Telecommunications and the Digital Economy (JTDE link below), Figure 3 (Ferrers 2020) in 2020, and presented at a Telsoc NBN Future Forum on Learning from International Experiences. Data from paper is at Figshare (link below).File is provided in formats:- numbers with paper graph, and formulae- csv (for browsing)- png version of Figure 3 from JTDE paper.This dataset is intended to be updated annually. Speedtest provides monthly updates.NB: Switch to median speed per country from late 2021/2022.Versions:v9 - Add data to 2023, India passes AU, add Top 10 AU Partners graph 2017 - 23.v8 - Add data to 2022, China passes US in speed. Add China/US graph at 2017-2022.v7 - NZ is twice as fast as AU. Pic and data excerpt.v6 - updated Dec 2020 figures. add graph 2018-2020.v5 - added link to Whirlpool, querying Australia's recent 40% jump in download vs ACCC Sept 2020 report - link belowv4 - simplified titlev3 - include graph image from JTDE paper (Figure 3) 2018 - 19.v2 - Amended title to include yearsv1 - Initial Load