Merchandise trade (% of GDP)
Compare merchandise trade (% of gdp) across 189 countries using the latest fixed-year World Bank WDI observations for 2025.
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Key Insights
- •189 ISO-mapped countries or territories have a finite fixed-year observation.
- •Hong Kong has the highest published value (371.022 %).
- •Sudan has the lowest published value (14.9595 %).
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: 64.8%)
Percentile Profile
The curve shows how values change from the lowest to the highest country. Steep sections reveal inequality or outliers.
About This Statistic
General merchandise trade includes goods whose economic ownership is changed between a resident and a non-resident and that are not included in the following specific categories: goods under merchanting, non-monetary gold, and parts of travel, construction, and government goods and services n.i.e. It is the total of merchandise exports plus merchandise imports. 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 TG.VAL.TOTL.GD.ZS. MapTheory excludes aggregates, missing/non-finite values, and geographies without an ISO 3166-1 numeric mapping; it does not interpolate missing countries.
Methodology
General merchandise trade includes goods whose economic ownership is changed between a resident and a non-resident and that are not included in the following specific categories: goods under merchanting, non-monetary gold, and parts of travel, construction, and government goods and services n.i.e. It is the total of merchandise exports plus merchandise imports. 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 | Hong Kong | 371.0% |
| 2 | Djibouti | 267.1% |
| 3 | Slovenia | 237.4% |
| 4 | Vietnam | 180.0% |
| 5 | Singapore | 177.6% |
| 6 | Slovakia | 160.5% |
| 7 | Belgium | 152.4% |
| 8 | Malaysia | 151.7% |
| 9 | Kiribati | 147.8% |
| 10 | Netherlands | 139.5% |
| 11 | Czech Republic | 137.3% |
| 12 | Hungary | 133.1% |
| 13 | Cambodia | 127.1% |
| 14 | Lao People's Democratic Republic | 124.1% |
| 15 | Thailand | 118.6% |
| 16 | The Republic of North Macedonia | 115.8% |
| 17 | Brunei Darussalam | 110.0% |
| 18 | Suriname | 108.1% |
| 19 | Mongolia | 106.7% |
| 20 | Guyana | 106.7% |
| 21 | Lesotho | 102.9% |
| 22 | Libya | 102.7% |
| 23 | Namibia | 102.4% |
| 24 | Switzerland | 101.7% |
| 25 | Latvia | 99.6% |
| 26 | Estonia | 98.4% |
| 27 | Belarus | 96.1% |
| 28 | Nicaragua | 95.9% |
| 29 | Lithuania | 95.2% |
| 30 | Republic of the Congo | 94.4% |
| 31 | Zambia | 91.7% |
| 32 | Oman | 91.0% |
| 33 | Bahrain | 87.6% |
| 34 | Mauritania | 87.3% |
| 35 | Liberia | 87.0% |
| 36 | Tunisia | 86.8% |
| 37 | Seychelles | 86.7% |
| 38 | Eswatini | 86.4% |
| 39 | Lebanon | 85.9% |
| 40 | Serbia | 84.6% |
| 41 | Solomon Islands | 83.8% |
| 42 | Bulgaria | 83.5% |
| 43 | Micronesia, Federated States of | 83.5% |
| 44 | Bhutan | 83.3% |
| 45 | Bosnia and Herzegovina | 83.3% |
| 46 | Guinea | 82.7% |
| 47 | Sint Maarten (Dutch part) | 80.7% |
| 48 | Poland | 80.6% |
| 49 | Syrian Arab Republic | 79.2% |
| 50 | Austria | 77.7% |
| 51 | Mozambique | 77.5% |
| 52 | Honduras | 77.4% |
| 53 | Morocco | 75.2% |
| 54 | Croatia | 75.2% |
| 55 | Mexico | 73.5% |
| 56 | Armenia | 73.3% |
| 57 | Gabon | 72.8% |
| 58 | Kuwait | 72.3% |
| 59 | Moldova, Republic of | 72.3% |
| 60 | South Korea | 71.6% |
| 61 | Jordan | 71.2% |
| 62 | Fiji | 70.6% |
| 63 | Iraq | 70.0% |
| 64 | Cape Verde | 70.0% |
| 65 | Kyrgyzstan | 69.9% |
| 66 | Georgia | 67.7% |
| 67 | Burkina Faso | 67.5% |
| 68 | El Salvador | 66.1% |
| 69 | Democratic Republic of the Congo | 66.1% |
| 70 | Germany | 65.5% |
| 71 | Azerbaijan | 65.1% |
| 72 | Ireland | 62.7% |
| 73 | Portugal | 62.1% |
| 74 | Papua New Guinea | 62.0% |
| 75 | Montenegro | 61.8% |
| 76 | Denmark | 61.5% |
| 77 | Paraguay | 61.3% |
| 78 | Sweden | 61.2% |
| 79 | Tajikistan | 61.1% |
| 80 | Senegal | 60.0% |
| 81 | Romania | 59.5% |
| 82 | Marshall Islands | 59.4% |
| 83 | Qatar | 58.6% |
| 84 | Ukraine | 57.9% |
| 85 | Botswana | 57.8% |
| 86 | Mauritius | 57.4% |
| 87 | South Africa | 57.2% |
| 88 | Timor-Leste | 56.9% |
| 89 | Belize | 56.4% |
| 90 | Chile | 55.9% |
| 91 | Nauru | 55.7% |
| 92 | Italy | 54.7% |
| 93 | Andorra | 54.7% |
| 94 | Republic of The Gambia | 54.3% |
| 95 | Ecuador | 53.6% |
| 96 | Finland | 53.3% |
| 97 | Greece | 52.5% |
| 98 | Maldives | 52.5% |
| 99 | Costa Rica | 52.4% |
| 100 | Norway | 52.4% |
| 101 | Cyprus | 52.1% |
| 102 | Spain | 50.3% |
| 103 | Uganda | 49.9% |
| 104 | Islamic Republic of Iran | 49.3% |
| 105 | Canada | 48.8% |
| 106 | Trinidad and Tobago | 48.6% |
| 107 | Grenada | 48.4% |
| 108 | Albania | 47.9% |
| 109 | Cote d'Ivoire | 47.9% |
| 110 | Palau | 47.8% |
| 111 | Tuvalu | 47.1% |
| 112 | Iceland | 46.9% |
| 113 | Malta | 46.9% |
| 114 | Kazakhstan | 46.8% |
| 115 | Philippines | 46.2% |
| 116 | Luxembourg | 46.0% |
| 117 | Rwanda | 45.9% |
| 118 | Sierra Leone | 45.9% |
| 119 | Burundi | 45.2% |
| 120 | Uzbekistan | 44.5% |
| 121 | Saudi Arabia | 44.2% |
| 122 | Vanuatu | 43.8% |
| 123 | Togo | 43.7% |
| 124 | France | 43.7% |
| 125 | Saint Vincent and the Grenadines | 43.5% |
| 126 | Peru | 42.8% |
| 127 | Ghana | 42.5% |
| 128 | Panama | 41.6% |
| 129 | Antigua and Barbuda | 41.5% |
| 130 | Jamaica | 41.3% |
| 131 | Saint Lucia | 41.2% |
| 132 | Turkmenistan | 40.8% |
| 133 | Egypt | 40.8% |
| 134 | Guatemala | 40.7% |
| 135 | Somalia | 40.2% |
| 136 | Türkiye | 40.0% |
| 137 | Tonga | 39.5% |
| 138 | Madagascar | 39.4% |
| 139 | Mali | 39.3% |
| 140 | Dominica | 39.1% |
| 141 | Angola | 38.8% |
| 142 | Zimbabwe | 38.7% |
| 143 | Samoa | 38.1% |
| 144 | United Kingdom | 37.6% |
| 145 | Saint Kitts and Nevis | 37.5% |
| 146 | South Sudan | 37.2% |
| 147 | Nepal | 36.7% |
| 148 | Benin | 36.4% |
| 149 | Indonesia | 36.3% |
| 150 | Myanmar | 36.3% |
| 151 | Australia | 36.0% |
| 152 | New Zealand | 35.7% |
| 153 | Dominican Republic | 35.6% |
| 154 | Japan | 33.7% |
| 155 | Equatorial Guinea | 33.5% |
| 156 | Nigeria | 33.3% |
| 157 | Algeria | 33.3% |
| 158 | Macao | 33.2% |
| 159 | Barbados | 33.1% |
| 160 | People's Republic of China | 32.6% |
| 161 | Sri Lanka | 32.2% |
| 162 | Guinea-Bissau | 31.7% |
| 163 | Malawi | 30.9% |
| 164 | Bolivia | 30.5% |
| 165 | India | 30.3% |
| 166 | Eritrea | 29.4% |
| 167 | Chad | 28.9% |
| 168 | Uruguay | 28.3% |
| 169 | Russian Federation | 28.2% |
| 170 | Brazil | 28.2% |
| 171 | United Republic of Tanzania | 27.5% |
| 172 | Central African Republic | 27.0% |
| 173 | Colombia | 26.4% |
| 174 | Bangladesh | 25.8% |
| 175 | Israel | 25.3% |
| 176 | Yemen | 24.7% |
| 177 | Cameroon | 24.6% |
| 178 | Ethiopia | 24.2% |
| 179 | Argentina | 23.8% |
| 180 | Pakistan | 23.7% |
| 181 | Comoros | 23.1% |
| 182 | Sao Tome and Principe | 22.5% |
| 183 | Venezuela | 22.5% |
| 184 | Afghanistan | 22.2% |
| 185 | Kenya | 22.2% |
| 186 | Niger | 21.3% |
| 187 | United States of America | 18.5% |
| 188 | Haiti | 16.2% |
| 189 | Sudan | 15.0% |
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Data Source
This data comes from World Bank World Development Indicators (2025).
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