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Imports of goods and services (% of GDP)

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Import (% of GDP) by country

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A map of the world, with colours to highlight the import (% of GDP) of each country. Numbers on the legend are %.

List of all countries

Flag Position Country Number
1 Luxembourg 181.69
2 Djibouti 173.6
3 Singapore 136.94
4 Malta 104.69
5 Ireland 102.16
6 Kyrgyzstan 100.99
7 Nauru 98.69
8 Lesotho 98.59
9 Seychelles 97.12
10 Cyprus 95.77
11 United Arab Emirates 93.72
12 Kiribati 92.38
13 Slovakia 90.37
14 Belgium 84.76
15 North Macedonia 80.85
16 Vietnam 79.15
17 Netherlands 77.37
18 Estonia 77
19 Slovenia 76.85
20 Hungary 76.09
21 Maldives 75.65
22 Somalia 72.95
23 Lithuania 72.57
24 Marshall Islands 71.25
25 Latvia 70.71
26 Libya 70.54
27 Bahrain 70.27
28 Montenegro 68.59
29 Micronesia 67.54
30 Cambodia 67.31
31 Mongolia 66.61
32 Timor-Leste 66.38
33 Namibia 66.2
34 Belarus 66.18
35 Czechia 63.98
36 Thailand 63.69
37 Malaysia 63.48
38 Switzerland 62.89
39 Samoa 61.9
40 Honduras 60.94
41 Mozambique 60.35
42 Armenia 60.26
43 Brunei Darussalam 60.03
44 Denmark 59.81
45 Moldova 59.59
46 Serbia 59.42
47 Nicaragua 59.07
48 Georgia 57.88
49 Bulgaria 57.78
50 Austria 57.35
51 Jordan 56.75
52 Cabo Verde 56.37
53 Bosnia and Herzegovina 55.84
54 Mauritius 55.43
55 Tunisia 55.29
56 Croatia 54.77
57 Mauritania 53.18
58 Poland 52.35
59 Belize 51.24
60 Sweden 51.19
61 Morocco 51.04
62 Afghanistan 50.5
63 El Salvador 49.8
64 Ukraine 49.51
65 Guinea 48.98
66 Greece 48.45
67 Chad 48.07
68 Senegal 48.01
69 Democratic Republic of the Congo 47.02
70 Portugal 46.42
71 South Korea 43.94
72 Romania 43.94
73 Albania 43.83
74 Iceland 43.15
75 Panama 43.06
76 Bahamas 42.96
77 Finland 42.52
78 Philippines 40.74
79 Uzbekistan 40.69
80 Rwanda 40.56
81 Paraguay 40.44
82 Mali 39.99
83 Germany 39.4
84 Congo 39.31
85 Togo 37.52
86 Zambia 37.4
87 Mexico 37.18
88 Botswana 36.58
89 France 36.28
90 Burkina Faso 35.96
91 Ghana 35
92 Comoros 34.99
93 Nepal 34.68
94 Azerbaijan 34.57
95 Turkey 34.36
96 Sierra Leone 34.34
97 Spain 34.13
98 Madagascar 33.91
99 Canada 33.82
100 Costa Rica 33.56
101 Gambia 32.83
102 Italy 32.51
103 Norway 32.47
104 South Africa 32.43
105 United Kingdom 32.22
106 Guatemala 31.63
107 Bolivia 30.93
108 Benin 30.16
109 Chile 29.83
110 Zimbabwe 29.22
111 Central African Republic 29.04
112 Ecuador 28.78
113 Dominican Republic 28.48
114 Guinea-Bissau 28.15
115 Ivory Coast 28.05
116 Iran 27.98
117 Gabon 27.75
118 Saudi Arabia 27.38
119 Kazakhstan 27.37
120 New Zealand 26.95
121 Israel 26.92
122 Angola 26.18
123 Haiti 25.51
124 Equatorial Guinea 24.84
125 Burundi 24.33
126 Uruguay 24.24
127 India 24.07
128 Peru 23.82
129 Japan 23.35
130 Colombia 22.66
131 Australia 22.43
132 Sri Lanka 22.17
133 Niger 21.59
134 Egypt 21.34
135 Tanzania 21.02
136 Cameroon 20.6
137 Algeria 20.06
138 Indonesia 19.57
139 Russia 18.75
140 Pakistan 18.12
141 Bangladesh 17.83
142 China 17.57
143 Brazil 15.74
144 Ethiopia 13.99
145 Argentina 13.89
146 United States of America (USA) 13.89
147 Turkmenistan 12.47
148 Sudan 1.37

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World export (% of GDP) by year

World export (% of GDP) by year.

Table

Year Number
1970 12.81
1971 12.92
1972 13.19
1973 14.66
1974 18.08
1975 17.11
1976 17.71
1977 17.99
1978 17.63
1979 19.26
1980 20.77
1981 20.1
1982 19.33
1983 18.54
1984 18.82
1985 18.22
1986 17.17
1987 17.7
1988 18.26
1989 19
1990 19.21
1991 18.82
1992 19.53
1993 18.53
1994 19.04
1995 20.24
1996 20.74
1997 21.49
1998 21.4
1999 21.64
2000 23.44
2001 22.95
2002 22.97
2003 23.72
2004 25.51
2005 26.71
2006 28.18
2007 28.97
2008 30.24
2009 25.64
2010 27.74
2011 29.5
2012 29.25
2013 29.18
2014 29.03
2015 27.43
2016 26.47
2017 27.4
2018 28.35
2019 27.58
2020 25.52
2021 27.76
2022 30.24
2023 28.49

Largest economies by import (% of GDP)

Top 10 countries by import (% of GDP)

Merchandise transport abroad - learn about import based on GDP

Importing goods is of utmost importance for small-sized countries due to restricted area and potential resources. For this reason, import data vary quite significantly from the typical rankings of the most wealthy nations.

Obviously, in the case of the largest GDP values, the import is just a small percentage of their earnings, profits, and the general wealthiness. Nevertheless, larger percentages can be noticed in the case of countries that conduct a free trade policy. In such cases, they transport quite a lot abroad, but they also take a lot from foreign nations.

What can we say about the import numbers of the top 3 GDP leaders?

First of all, it is important to remember about the fact that recent years proved to be the best in terms of the value of the imported merchandise. Worldwide, it was around $24.416 trillion. The largest economies around the world imported the largest amounts of goods and services. The top three importers in the world occurred to be the United States, China, and Germany with the total sum of imported merchandise estimated at $7.2 trillion.

Interestingly, such gigantic values were acquired with a relatively low index of % of the GDP. Only in the case of Germany it was around 40% of their total GDP. The United States and China had import that was significantly lower than that (it was respectively 14.6% and 17.3%).

Let’s now take a look at the largest imports of goods and services when compared to the total GDP of the country?

Due to very small sizes, a lot of countries need to depend on imports just to acquire substantial resources and materials. That is why the ranking is dominated by the smallest regions and nations we can find, which are at the same time incredibly wealthy due to their individual characteristics.

The first place goes to Hong Kong SAR, which is an administrative region of China with its own regulations and laws. As a result of that, it is one of the largest and wealthiest areas in the world. It; however, imports goods at the value of 176% of its total GDP.

Position number two goes to Luxembourg with a very close value of 173%. Let's remember that Third place is a bit distant from these two, but it is still an incredibly high number when compared to other countries. Singapore imports for 146% of their total GDP. All these data were collected at the end of 2019.