INVESTIGATION OF WORLD GREEN COFFEE EXPORT USING NETWORK ANALYSIS Abstract
Green coffee has an important economic value in world foreign trade. It is the 104th most traded and 1024th most complex product according to the Product Complexity Index. In 2021, approximately 10 million tons of green coffee was produced, 7.8 million tons of green coffee was exported and 7.5 million tons of green coffee was imported in the world. In this study, within the framework of the research questions determined, the export values of 1986, 1995, 2000, 2010, 2013, 2018, 2020, 2021, 2022 were used and network analysis was performed, network visuals of the leading countries in world green coffee exports were extracted and the obtained statistical values were interpreted. Accordingly, it has been observed that countries that could not establish commercial connections in the early periods began to establish connections in later periods, the density of the networks gradually increased in positive economic periods, and the density of the networks decreased in years of negative economic developments, especially during the epidemic period, 2020 and the 2022 Russia-Ukraine war period. In addition, significant changes were detected in statistical values and in core and peripheral countries according to periods.