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Creative Services Exports

15 years, 2010–2024 · 111 countries · 2 measures

Creative services exports are what a country earns abroad from services UNCTAD counts as creative — software and computer services, research and development, licences to use software, films and music, advertising, architecture and audiovisual work — as a share of all its services exports. Despite the name, software and R&D make up most of it, not the arts.

This site holds every year from 2010 to 2024, read from UNCTAD’s own data and stored exactly as published.

Open Creative Services Exports, 2024Download all 15 · CSVSee it charted by country →

Creative Services Exports · the file

Newest
Creative Services Exports, 2024
Held
15 years · 2,024 rows
Licence
CC BY 3.0 IGO

0115 years

Every year

Every year comes from UNCTAD’s 2025 release, recalculated on one method. Each opens the full table for that year; each downloads as a CSV.

2010bar height: countries covered, up to 1422024
Every year of Creative Services Exports held on this site, newest first, with its download files.
YearCountriesChangeReadDownload
Creative Services Exports, 2024Newest111+1 −22September 29, 2026CSV
Creative Services Exports, 2023132+3 −7September 29, 2026CSV
Creative Services Exports, 2022136+1 −7September 29, 2026CSV
Creative Services Exports, 2021142+6 −1September 29, 2026CSV
Creative Services Exports, 2020137+3 −2September 29, 2026CSV
Creative Services Exports, 2019136+3 −4September 29, 2026CSV
Creative Services Exports, 2018137+2 −3September 29, 2026CSV
Creative Services Exports, 2017138+2 −3September 29, 2026CSV
Creative Services Exports, 2016139+7 −3September 29, 2026CSV
Creative Services Exports, 2015135+4 −3September 29, 2026CSV
Creative Services Exports, 2014134+1 −3September 29, 2026CSV
Creative Services Exports, 2013136+3 −4September 29, 2026CSV
Show all 15 years
YearCountriesChangeReadDownload
Creative Services Exports, 2012137+3 −1September 29, 2026CSV
Creative Services Exports, 2011135+4 −8September 29, 2026CSV
Creative Services Exports, 2010139—September 29, 2026CSV

Every year in one file, one row per country per year: creative-services-exports-all-editions-nations-inquiry.csv

025 columns

What’s in the file

Every column, what it holds, how it is stored and what its values look like — what a reader needs before opening the file.

Every column in the newest file of Creative Services Exports: what it holds, how it is stored, and its range.
ColumnWhat it holdsStored asRange, 2024DistinctEmptySpread
CountrycountryNameThe country’s name, as this file spells it.Text—1110
ISO Codecountry_codeIdentifierThe ISO 3166-1 alpha-3 code, added by this site. Every table here joins on it.Text · 3 letters—1110
Creative services exports (% of services exports)creative_services_exportsHeadlineThe headline figure: Creative services exports (% of services exports).Number · up to 5 decimals0.0018Bahamas63.9103Irelandmiddle 6.17071110
Creative services exports (US$ millions, current prices)creative_services_exports_usdMeasureValue of creative services sold abroad during the year, in millions of US dollars at current prices; like the share, mostly an UNCTAD estimate.Number · up to 3 decimals0.08Mozambique332,041.83Irelandmiddle 1,010.281110
UNCTAD footnotefootnoteLabelUNCTAD's note on the reading, where there is one. It marks only a few of the estimated values: most of this table is UNCTAD's estimate.Text—1109

Profiled from the newest file. Range: the lowest and highest value, with the country holding it when only one does. Spread: countries in ten equal steps from lowest to highest. Neither end is better. The values describe a shape, not a score.

03161 countries across every year

Who is covered

How many countries each year holds, continent by continent, who joined and who left, and which places this site covers that the dataset never has.

All regions
Countries in each year of Creative Services Exports, by continent.
201320142015201620172018201920202021202220232024
Africa292831323431333235312810
Americas282727262626252527272726
Asia333232343234323333323232
Europe393939393939394040404038
Oceania786877777655
All136134135139138137136137142136132111

The newest 12 of 15 years.

Who joined and who left

  • 2024
    + Nepal− Burundi− Benin− Burkina Faso− Botswana− Central African Republic− Cameroon− Ethiopia− Faroe Islands− Equatorial Guinea− Guyana− Kenya− Mali− Malta− Mauritania− Malawi− Niger− Oman− Rwanda− Eswatini− Chad− Zambia− Zimbabwe
  • 2023
    + Central African Republic+ Israel+ Mozambique− Côte d’Ivoire− Gabon− Guinea-Bissau− Iran− Sudan− São Tomé and Príncipe− Vanuatu
  • 2022
    + Cambodia− Central African Republic− Republic of the Congo− Cook Islands− Israel− Mozambique− Nepal− Togo
  • 2021
    + Benin+ Bahamas+ Colombia+ Indonesia+ Morocco+ Mali− Cambodia
  • 2020
    + Cambodia+ Malta+ São Tomé and Príncipe− Benin− Mali
  • 2019
    + Benin+ Ghana+ Sudan− Afghanistan− Bahamas− Madagascar− Palestine
  • 2018
    + Brunei+ Vietnam− Benin− DR Congo− Sudan
  • 2017
    + Central African Republic+ Madagascar− Bangladesh− Brunei− Samoa

Not in this dataset · 64 places this site covers

UNCTAD gives no figure for these in any year held here. It is the publisher’s choice of scope, and each place’s profile shows what is measured.

American SamoaAndorraAngolaArgentinaBelizeBhutanBritish Virgin IslandsCayman IslandsChannel IslandsChileComorosCubaCuraçaoDjiboutiEgyptEritreaGambiaGibraltarGreenlandGuamGuineaIraqIsle of ManItalyJamaicaKiribatiKuwaitLaosLiberiaLibyaLiechtensteinMarshall IslandsMexicoMonacoNauruNicaraguaNigeriaNiueNorth KoreaNorthern CyprusNorthern Mariana IslandsPalauPuerto RicoSaint MartinSan MarinoSenegalSierra LeoneSint MaartenSolomon IslandsSomaliaSomalilandSouth SudanTajikistanThailandTimor-LesteTunisiaTurkmenistanTurks and Caicos IslandsTuvaluUnited Arab EmiratesUnited States Virgin IslandsVatican CityVenezuelaYemen

04Provenance

Where it comes from

The path from the publisher to this page, and what was checked and changed on the way.

The site’s method

  1. 1 · Publisher

    UN Trade and Development (UNCTAD)

    unctadstat.unctad.org

  2. 2 · Their file

    Creative Services Exports 2024

    US_CreativeServ_Indiv_Tot

  3. 3 · Read by this site

    September 29, 2026

    Imported by a script that parses each figure and writes it down unrounded.

  4. 4 · Stored as

    15 files, one per year

    Each downloads as a CSV, or every year together as creative-services-exports-all-editions-nations-inquiry.csv

  5. 5 · Used on

    Its statistic page, and every profile it measures

    /statistics/creative-services-exports

Precision

The headline is stored to 5 decimals, as published.

Rounded by this site

Never. Tables on screen may show fewer decimals; the files never do.

Changed by this site

Reshaped into one row per country: regional and income-group totals are left out, only the columns listed are kept, each row gets its ISO 3166 code, and some country names are brought to one spelling. No value is recalculated, rescaled or rounded.

Read from UNCTAD's own US.CreativeServ_Indiv_Tot bulk file on UNCTADstat — UNCTAD's experimental estimates for individual economies, built on the UNCTAD-WTO trade-in-services data. The US$ amount is kept beside the share.

05Reuse

Licence and credit

What the publisher’s licence lets you do, what it asks of you, and a credit line and citation ready to copy.

Every publisher’s terms

Licence · checked September 29, 2026

CC BY 3.0 IGO

  • Share and redistribute it
  • Adapt it and build on it
  • Use it commercially
  • Credit the publisher
  • Say what you changed

The version of CC BY written for intergovernmental organisations. Credit the publisher and say what you changed.

A credit line

Source: UN Trade and Development (UNCTAD), Creative Services Exports, via Nations Inquiry.

Cite this dataset

UN Trade and Development (UNCTAD). Creative Services Exports, 2010–2024 [data set]. As held by Nations Inquiry, https://nationsinquiry.com/datasets/creative-services-exports

The publisher’s own citation: UN Trade and Development (UNCTAD). International trade in creative services: estimates for individual economies. Geneva: UNCTAD Data Hub.

Plain-language summary, not legal advice. The licence text is what binds.

06Where it is used

Around the site

Where these numbers appear on this site, and the datasets nearest to it.

07Questions

Creative Services Exports: questions and answers

What is the Creative Services Exports?

Creative services exports are what a country earns abroad from services UNCTAD counts as creative — software and computer services, research and development, licences to use software, films and music, advertising, architecture and audiovisual work — as a share of all its services exports. Despite the name, software and R&D make up most of it, not the arts.

Which years of the Creative Services Exports can I download?

All 15, from 2010 to 2024, each as a CSV file, or every year together in one CSV.

Does UNCTAD rank countries on it?

No, and this site does not order it either. The files hold values only.

Can I use it commercially?

Yes, under CC BY 3.0 IGO, with credit to UNCTAD. The licence text is linked on this page.

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