About
World Trade Cup is a trade trivia game built around the 2026 World Cup. For each match, players test their knowledge of real bilateral trade between the two competing countries.
The data
All trade figures come from the Observatory of Economic Complexity (OEC), using the BACI bilateral trade dataset. Products are classified at the HS4 level (4-digit Harmonized System codes), covering thousands of distinct goods from Cars to Soybeans to Integrated Circuits.
For each match, the game fetches the most recent year of data available in OEC for that specific country pair.
Built by
OEC — Observatory of Economic Complexity
The OEC is the world's leading visualization engine for international trade data. It tracks bilateral trade flows between 250+ countries across thousands of products, making complex economic data accessible to researchers, policymakers, and the public.
CCL — Center for Collective Learning
The Center for Collective Learning studies how knowledge moves, grows, and decays — from teams to nations, and from the past to the future. A multidisciplinary research team based at the Toulouse School of Economics' Institute for Advanced Study and at the Institute of Advanced Studies at Corvinus University of Budapest, CCL explores the principles governing the growth of knowledge and collective decision-making, from team dynamics to the role of technology in knowledge diffusion. Their work has led to dozens of public data observatories, visualization platforms, and digital democracy experiments.
Oxford TIDE — Technology and Industrialisation for Development Centre
Oxford TIDE explores the complex relationships between trade, investment, technology, industrialisation, and innovation in the context of development. Based at the University of Oxford, it operates as a multidisciplinary research hub that champions advancing knowledge on innovation and industrial policy to address widening technological disparities and support equitable prosperity globally. The centre partners with international organizations including UNDP, the World Bank, and the IDB on development initiatives spanning biodiversity, industrial policy, and technology innovation.