diff --git a/library/composables/useCsvExport.js b/library/composables/useCsvExport.js
index 018e175ad..926bcfdd0 100644
--- a/library/composables/useCsvExport.js
+++ b/library/composables/useCsvExport.js
@@ -74,6 +74,12 @@ export const EXPORT_FIELDS = [
  *   It is applied to the COMMENT LINE ONLY — never to a data column (see buildCsv).
  */
 export function useCsvExport({ rowStore, rows, selectionSet, filterSet, FACET_ACC, dataOpts = {}, labelFor = null,
+  // ★ THE TYPED SEARCH NARROWS THE EXPORT TOO. Optional rows->rows transform, so a caller that does not
+  // pass it behaves exactly as before. Without it the export ignored the search box completely: with no
+  // facet filter and no selection, pickRows() fell through to EVERY row, so a reader who typed "Bhutan"
+  // and saw 13 rows downloaded all 2,107. Not applied to an explicit selection — picking rows by hand
+  // outranks a text filter, which is the documented priority model, and the reader can see what they picked.
+  searchFilter = null,
   // What this export calls itself, and who to credit for the data. Defaults keep every existing
   // caller's file identical to the byte.
   exportLabel = 'Research Dashboard', sources = '',
@@ -160,6 +166,7 @@ export function useCsvExport({ rowStore, rows, selectionSet, filterSet, FACET_AC
   }
 
   function pickRows() {
+    const narrow = (list) => (typeof searchFilter === 'function' ? searchFilter(list) : list)
     if (selectionSet && selectionSet.size) {
       return [...selectionSet].map((s) => rowStore.value.get(s)).filter(Boolean)
     }
@@ -168,9 +175,9 @@ export function useCsvExport({ rowStore, rows, selectionSet, filterSet, FACET_AC
       // The bus's own predicate, handed in by the shell — the exporter must select the same rows
       // the reader is looking at, and a private copy of the rule is how an export starts
       // disagreeing with the screen it was taken from.
-      return (rows.value || []).filter((r) => rowMatches(r, FACET_ACC))
+      return narrow((rows.value || []).filter((r) => rowMatches(r, FACET_ACC)))
     }
-    return rows.value || []
+    return narrow(rows.value || [])
   }
   function scopeLabel() {
     if (selectionSet && selectionSet.size) return `selection (${selectionSet.size})`
diff --git a/plugin-designs/research-dashboard/src/components/dashboards/DashboardDataTable.vue b/plugin-designs/research-dashboard/src/components/dashboards/DashboardDataTable.vue
index 17a074dfc..9b8ee72ce 100644
--- a/plugin-designs/research-dashboard/src/components/dashboards/DashboardDataTable.vue
+++ b/plugin-designs/research-dashboard/src/components/dashboards/DashboardDataTable.vue
@@ -547,7 +547,10 @@ const rowCount = computed(() => filtered.value.length)
 // columns are untouched.
 const { labelFor: csvLabelFor } = useTreeLegendLabels(cfg, inject('dataStore', null), inject('searchSourceId', null))
 const csv = dash && bus
-  ? useCsvExport({ rowStore: dash.rowStore, rows: dash.rows, selectionSet: bus.selectionSet, filterSet: bus.filterSet, FACET_ACC: FACETS, dataOpts: cfg.data, labelFor: csvLabelFor })
+  ? useCsvExport({ rowStore: dash.rowStore, rows: dash.rows, selectionSet: bus.selectionSet, filterSet: bus.filterSet, FACET_ACC: FACETS, dataOpts: cfg.data, labelFor: csvLabelFor,
+      // The table already narrows the screen with this exact matcher (see visibleRows); handing it to the
+      // exporter is what makes the download agree with what the reader is looking at.
+      searchFilter: (list) => filterRowsBySearch(list, matchSearch) })
   : null
 const exportToast = ref('')
 const exporting = ref(false)