External balance on goods and services (% of GDP)
Compare external balance on goods and services (% of gdp) across 137 countries using the latest fixed-year World Bank WDI observations for 2025.
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Key Insights
- •137 ISO-mapped countries or territories have a finite fixed-year observation.
- •Macao has the highest published value (45.4318 %).
- •Somalia has the lowest published value (-69.5665 %).
Country Rankings
Top 10 Countries
Bottom 10 Countries
Data Analysis
Value Distribution
How countries are distributed across the value range
Regional Comparison
Average values by world region (Global avg: -4.1%)
Percentile Profile
The curve shows how values change from the lowest to the highest country. Steep sections reveal inequality or outliers.
About This Statistic
The balance of international trade in goods and services is the difference between the exports and imports of goods and services. This indicator is expressed as a percentage of Gross Domestic Product (GDP) which is the total income earned through the production of goods and services in an economic territory during an accounting period.
Values use one fixed 2025 reference year from World Development Indicators series NE.RSB.GNFS.ZS. MapTheory excludes aggregates, missing/non-finite values, and geographies without an ISO 3166-1 numeric mapping; it does not interpolate missing countries.
Methodology
The balance of international trade in goods and services is the difference between the exports and imports of goods and services. This indicator is expressed as a percentage of Gross Domestic Product (GDP) which is the total income earned through the production of goods and services in an economic territory during an accounting period.
Full Data
| Rank ↑ | Country ↕ | Value ↕ |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Macao | 45.4% |
| 2 | Ireland | 40.2% |
| 3 | Singapore | 35.4% |
| 4 | Luxembourg | 31.2% |
| 5 | Gabon | 26.1% |
| 6 | Brunei Darussalam | 19.5% |
| 7 | Malta | 19.2% |
| 8 | Equatorial Guinea | 18.1% |
| 9 | Djibouti | 14.7% |
| 10 | Chad | 12.7% |
| 11 | Norway | 11.7% |
| 12 | Angola | 11.3% |
| 13 | Netherlands | 11.2% |
| 14 | Denmark | 11.0% |
| 15 | Switzerland | 8.9% |
| 16 | Peru | 8.1% |
| 17 | Azerbaijan | 6.2% |
| 18 | Costa Rica | 6.2% |
| 19 | Vietnam | 6.2% |
| 20 | Czech Republic | 5.9% |
| 21 | Libya | 5.8% |
| 22 | Cyprus | 5.7% |
| 23 | Malaysia | 5.5% |
| 24 | Mongolia | 5.4% |
| 25 | Slovenia | 5.4% |
| 26 | South Korea | 5.2% |
| 27 | Cote d'Ivoire | 5.0% |
| 28 | Burkina Faso | 5.0% |
| 29 | Venezuela | 4.8% |
| 30 | Hungary | 4.5% |
| 31 | Uruguay | 4.4% |
| 32 | Republic of the Congo | 4.4% |
| 33 | People's Republic of China | 4.2% |
| 34 | Chile | 4.1% |
| 35 | Thailand | 3.9% |
| 36 | Lithuania | 3.9% |
| 37 | Spain | 3.8% |
| 38 | Ecuador | 3.5% |
| 39 | Puerto Rico | 3.3% |
| 40 | Poland | 2.9% |
| 41 | Hong Kong | 2.9% |
| 42 | Russian Federation | 2.7% |
| 43 | Austria | 2.4% |
| 44 | Germany | 2.4% |
| 45 | Indonesia | 2.3% |
| 46 | Israel | 2.1% |
| 47 | Sweden | 2.1% |
| 48 | Italy | 1.9% |
| 49 | South Africa | 1.9% |
| 50 | Saudi Arabia | 1.6% |
| 51 | Finland | 1.3% |
| 52 | Cambodia | 1.2% |
| 53 | Estonia | 1.0% |
| 54 | Portugal | 0.9% |
| 55 | Turkmenistan | 0.8% |
| 56 | Argentina | 0.7% |
| 57 | Australia | 0.6% |
| 58 | Brazil | 0.3% |
| 59 | Slovakia | -0.2% |
| 60 | Sudan | -0.2% |
| 61 | Türkiye | -0.2% |
| 62 | France | -0.4% |
| 63 | Democratic Republic of the Congo | -0.5% |
| 64 | Mexico | -0.6% |
| 65 | Canada | -0.8% |
| 66 | United Republic of Tanzania | -1.0% |
| 67 | Bulgaria | -1.0% |
| 68 | United Kingdom | -1.3% |
| 69 | India | -1.7% |
| 70 | Belarus | -1.9% |
| 71 | Belgium | -2.0% |
| 72 | Paraguay | -2.1% |
| 73 | Iceland | -2.3% |
| 74 | Niger | -2.4% |
| 75 | Benin | -3.0% |
| 76 | Sri Lanka | -3.9% |
| 77 | Dominican Republic | -4.2% |
| 78 | Serbia | -4.3% |
| 79 | Greece | -4.5% |
| 80 | Latvia | -4.6% |
| 81 | Mali | -4.6% |
| 82 | Croatia | -5.0% |
| 83 | Romania | -5.2% |
| 84 | Algeria | -5.3% |
| 85 | Colombia | -5.4% |
| 86 | Botswana | -5.5% |
| 87 | Albania | -5.5% |
| 88 | Armenia | -5.5% |
| 89 | Bangladesh | -5.7% |
| 90 | Georgia | -5.8% |
| 91 | Kenya | -6.0% |
| 92 | Senegal | -6.1% |
| 93 | Ethiopia | -6.9% |
| 94 | Cameroon | -7.2% |
| 95 | Pakistan | -7.2% |
| 96 | Sierra Leone | -7.3% |
| 97 | Uganda | -7.3% |
| 98 | Tunisia | -8.1% |
| 99 | Islamic Republic of Iran | -8.7% |
| 100 | Morocco | -9.2% |
| 101 | Mauritius | -9.9% |
| 102 | Cape Verde | -11.4% |
| 103 | Madagascar | -11.6% |
| 104 | Egypt | -11.7% |
| 105 | Haiti | -12.8% |
| 106 | Seychelles | -13.0% |
| 107 | Bosnia and Herzegovina | -13.1% |
| 108 | Guinea-Bissau | -13.1% |
| 109 | Nicaragua | -13.3% |
| 110 | Uzbekistan | -13.3% |
| 111 | Rwanda | -13.6% |
| 112 | Philippines | -13.7% |
| 113 | The Republic of North Macedonia | -13.7% |
| 114 | Central African Republic | -14.2% |
| 115 | Mauritania | -14.3% |
| 116 | Mozambique | -14.3% |
| 117 | Samoa | -15.4% |
| 118 | Guatemala | -15.4% |
| 119 | Malawi | -18.1% |
| 120 | Namibia | -19.2% |
| 121 | Sao Tome and Principe | -20.0% |
| 122 | Guinea | -20.9% |
| 123 | Honduras | -21.5% |
| 124 | Comoros | -22.3% |
| 125 | El Salvador | -24.1% |
| 126 | Nepal | -24.9% |
| 127 | Montenegro | -25.6% |
| 128 | Ukraine | -26.5% |
| 129 | Moldova, Republic of | -29.2% |
| 130 | State of Palestine | -32.3% |
| 131 | Republic of The Gambia | -36.7% |
| 132 | Kyrgyzstan | -38.8% |
| 133 | Nauru | -41.9% |
| 134 | Marshall Islands | -43.8% |
| 135 | Micronesia, Federated States of | -48.8% |
| 136 | Lesotho | -54.9% |
| 137 | Somalia | -69.6% |
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Data Source
This data comes from World Bank World Development Indicators (2025).
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