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Creative Services Exports, 2024

2024, as UNCTAD’s 2025 release gives it · stored as published, never rewritten

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.

Creative Services Exports, 2024 covers 111 countries on 2 measures. Ireland is highest, at 63.9103; Bahamas is lowest, at 0.0018. The middle country reads 6.1707. Against 2023, 110 values changed (59 up, 51 down), 1 country joined, 22 left.

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Creative Services Exports · Data for 2024

HighestIreland

63.9103

LowestBahamas

0.0018

Shaded by value in five groups of equal size, darkest at the highest end.

01Values only

The table

Every country and every column of Creative Services Exports, 2024, as published. The file carries values only, so no position is shown. “=” marks a shared position.

Showing 25 of 111 countries · select a heading to sort

Creative Services Exports, 2024: every country, as published by UN Trade and Development (UNCTAD).
IrelandIRLNorthern Europe63.9103332,041.83—
SwedenSWENorthern Europe36.552642,715.38—
IsraelISRWestern Asia29.437224,847.01—
RomaniaROUEastern Europe28.850812,386.19—
IndiaINDSouthern Asia27.3164102,403.45Estimated
FinlandFINNorthern Europe26.633510,983.33—
JapanJPNEastern Asia26.336360,188.70—
CyprusCYPWestern Asia25.97508,067.62—
United StatesUSANorthern America25.5391294,400.95—
BulgariaBGREastern Europe24.52744,072.56—
SwitzerlandCHEWestern Europe23.099441,539.48—
CanadaCANNorthern America22.273935,439.31—
SingaporeSGPSouth-eastern Asia21.995687,006.97—
NetherlandsNLDWestern Europe20.627269,298.52—
GermanyDEUWestern Europe20.385396,181.15—
PakistanPAKSouthern Asia19.84911,607.14—
EstoniaESTNorthern Europe18.64642,520.50—
PolandPOLEastern Europe18.442221,896.19—
UkraineUKREastern Europe17.65253,040.81—
United KingdomGBRNorthern Europe16.5989107,733.86—
MauritiusMUSEastern Africa16.43611,010.28—
ChinaCHNEastern Asia16.157672,045.26—
South KoreaKOREastern Asia15.586521,657.89—
CzechiaCZEEastern Europe14.94686,360.08—
HungaryHUNEastern Europe14.82955,676.80—

02In 2024

At either end

The 5 countries at each end of the headline, then the highest and lowest on each other measure.

Highest

  1. Ireland63.9103
  2. Sweden36.5526
  3. Israel29.4372
  4. Romania28.8508
  5. India27.3164

Lowest

  1. Bahamas0.0018
  2. Mozambique0.0066
  3. Paraguay0.0154
  4. El Salvador0.0350
  5. Macau0.0363

Neither end is better. The values describe a shape, not a score. The middle country reads 6.1707. “Shared” marks a value another country also holds.

Each measure’s ends

  • Creative services exports (US$ millions, current prices)

    HighestIreland332,041.83

    LowestMozambique0.08

    Middle country: 1,010.28

032023 → 2024

Since 2023

  • +1 / −22countries joined / left
  • 110values changed, of 110 in both
  • 59 · 51rose · fell
  • 0unchanged

Rose most

Fell most

+ 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

04Caveats

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How values are stored

  • One year of the 2025 release

    Every year in this series comes from UNCTAD’s 2025 release, recalculated on one method, so a change from one year to the next is not a revision. It can differ from what was first published for 2024.

  • 109 empty cells

    An empty cell means the publisher gave no figure. It is never a zero.

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

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