Abstract
The Cross Country Mean Firm Size data was created by Andrew Kerr of the University of Cape Town as part of a project entitled “Firm size and Economic Growth in sub-Saharan Africa”, which was funded by the Structural Transformation and Economic Growth (STEG) initiative. The data covers 198 countries from 1950 to 2022 and is created from several sources. These include IPUMS population census microdata from IPUMS, United Nations Statistics Division (UNSD) aggregated population census data, aggregated household survey data from the International Labour Organization (ILO), replication data from papers by Bento and Restuccia (2017) and Poschke (2018), microdata from the World Bank Enterprise Surveys (WBES) and GDP per capita information from the Penn World Table.