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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 176.69
2 Singapore 153.47
3 Malta 136.93
4 Nauru 106.44
5 Kiribati 95.79
6 Ireland 95.03
7 Slovakia 94.03
8 Vietnam 93.18
9 Lesotho 88.92
10 Belgium 85.81
11 Somalia 85.79
12 Cyprus 83.7
13 North Macedonia 82.25
14 Hungary 81.24
15 Seychelles 80.43
16 Estonia 78.66
17 Slovenia 77.29
18 Lithuania 75.97
19 Netherlands 72.72
20 Czechia 69.77
21 Micronesia 69.67
22 Marshall Islands 69.63
23 Kyrgyzstan 69.08
24 Mozambique 68.83
25 Guinea 68.07
26 Maldives 67.79
27 Cambodia 67.61
28 Brunei Darussalam 66.95
29 Latvia 66.9
30 Belarus 66.63
31 Serbia 62.28
32 Montenegro 62.2
33 Honduras 61.92
34 Malaysia 61.73
35 Mauritania 60.94
36 Tonga 60.84
37 Mongolia 60.55
38 Bulgaria 59.65
39 Georgia 59.63
40 Switzerland 59.48
41 Nicaragua 59.39
42 Thailand 58.45
43 Cabo Verde 58.01
44 Moldova 57.99
45 Austria 55.32
46 El Salvador 54.82
47 Fiji 54.58
48 Bosnia and Herzegovina 54.57
49 Poland 54.53
50 Mauritius 53.75
51 Lebanon 52.8
52 Croatia 52.75
53 Bhutan 52.74
54 Denmark 52.52
55 Tunisia 52.23
56 Jordan 51.14
57 Belize 50.11
58 Botswana 49.87
59 Samoa 49.21
60 Greece 48.59
61 Namibia 47.99
62 Equatorial Guinea 46.59
63 Romania 46.51
64 Eswatini 45.91
65 Jamaica 45.78
66 Cuba 45.13
67 Portugal 44.58
68 Chad 44.23
69 Albania 43.91
70 Armenia 43.83
71 Vanuatu 43.34
72 Mexico 42.56
73 Bahamas 42.13
74 Morocco 42.02
75 Ukraine 41.87
76 Germany 41.71
77 Panama 41.63
78 Sierra Leone 41.46
79 Oman 41.39
80 Sweden 41.19
81 Senegal 40.95
82 Barbados 40.47
83 Mali 40.22
84 Uzbekistan 40.14
85 Democratic Republic of the Congo 40.1
86 Iceland 39.98
87 Finland 39.19
88 Nepal 38.6
89 South Korea 38.46
90 Solomon Islands 37.98
91 Philippines 37.76
92 Congo 37.16
93 Timor-Leste 36.28
94 Gambia 35.62
95 Turkey 35.53
96 Paraguay 34.82
97 Rwanda 34.79
98 Costa Rica 34.47
99 Benin 34.29
100 Togo 34.23
101 Qatar 34.13
102 Zambia 33.91
103 Spain 33.45
104 Chile 32.54
105 Guatemala 32.07
106 Comoros 31.47
107 France 31.39
108 Bolivia 31.19
109 Dominican Republic 30.98
110 Zimbabwe 30.9
111 Canada 30.64
112 Central African Republic 30.5
113 Italy 30.31
114 Haiti 29.93
115 Azerbaijan 29.91
116 Madagascar 29.4
117 Norway 29.32
118 United Kingdom 28.72
119 Ghana 28.52
120 Niger 27.23
121 New Zealand 26.57
122 Peru 26.42
123 Algeria 26.39
124 Israel 25.5
125 Uruguay 25.32
126 Ecuador 25.2
127 South Africa 25.02
128 Myanmar 24.81
129 Colombia 24.44
130 Saudi Arabia 24.35
131 Sri Lanka 24.21
132 Iraq 24.18
133 Kazakhstan 24
134 India 23.89
135 Burundi 23.82
136 Ivory Coast 22.76
137 Iran 21.53
138 Russia 21.31
139 Cameroon 20.36
140 Egypt 20.28
141 Brazil 19.08
142 Japan 18.95
143 Indonesia 18.86
144 Pakistan 17.99
145 Australia 17.79
146 China 17.43
147 Bangladesh 17.06
148 Tanzania 17.05
149 Gabon 16.85
150 Ethiopia 16.66
151 Angola 16.2
152 Argentina 14.95
153 United States of America (USA) 14.59
154 Nigeria 11.84
155 Sudan 1.88

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World export (% of GDP) by year

World export (% of GDP) by year.

Table

Year Number
1970 12.81
1971 12.9
1972 13.2
1973 14.71
1974 18.2
1975 17.26
1976 17.88
1977 18.13
1978 17.75
1979 19.34
1980 20.84
1981 20.2
1982 19.41
1983 18.58
1984 18.88
1985 18.3
1986 17.19
1987 17.7
1988 18.21
1989 18.97
1990 19.22
1991 18.76
1992 19.47
1993 18.5
1994 19.07
1995 20.32
1996 20.86
1997 21.63
1998 21.55
1999 21.68
2000 23.49
2001 23.03
2002 23.05
2003 23.82
2004 25.6
2005 26.81
2006 28.31
2007 29.15
2008 30.42
2009 25.81
2010 27.92
2011 29.7
2012 29.4
2013 29.35
2014 29.21
2015 27.59
2016 26.63
2017 27.57
2018 28.54
2019 27.78
2020 25.6
2021 27.92

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.