European trade communities

Weighted Louvain on the backbone · K=3 · modularity Q=0.251

An interactive view of the European merchandise-trade network (CEPII BACI). Each node is an economy; colour marks its detected trade community, size scales with total trade strength, and edges are bilateral trade flows.

Hover a node for country details · drag nodes to rearrange · scroll to zoom · use the buttons (top-right) to freeze the layout, toggle labels, or show this panel and the legend.

Trade communities

DEU-led bloc (23 economies)

CHN-led bloc (7 economies)

NOR-led bloc (5 economies)

Encoding

Node size ∝ total trade strength

Edge width ∝ bilateral trade value