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Exports of Goods and Services (% of GDP), 1981

1981, as World Bank Group’s 2026 release gives it · stored as published, never rewritten

Exports of Goods and Services (% of GDP), 1981 covers 120 countries. Singapore is highest, at 198.183; Ghana is lowest, at 4.756. The middle country reads 26.319. Against 1980, 118 values changed (47 up, 71 down), 2 countries joined.

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Exports of Goods and Services (% of GDP) · Data for 1981

HighestSingapore

198.183

LowestGhana

4.756

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

01Position · derived

The table

Every country and every column of Exports of Goods and Services (% of GDP), 1981, as published. World Bank Group ranks nobody on this measure; the position is derived here by ordering the published values. “=” marks a shared position.

Showing 25 of 120 countries · select a heading to sort

Exports of Goods and Services (% of GDP), 1981: every country, as published by World Bank Group.
derived
1SingaporeSGPSouth-eastern Asia198.183
2BahrainBHRWestern Asia115.324
3Hong KongHKGEastern Asia90.533
4LuxembourgLUXWestern Europe87.529
5MaltaMLTSouthern Europe72.536
6KuwaitKWTWestern Asia69.498
7GuyanaGUYSouth America68.923
8QatarQATWestern Asia68.006
9BahamasBHSCaribbean67.382
10OmanOMNWestern Asia64.687
11GabonGABMiddle Africa63.364
12Saudi ArabiaSAUWestern Asia62.819
13PanamaPANCentral America62.289
14Republic of the CongoCOGMiddle Africa58.021
15NamibiaNAMSouthern Africa56.390
16NetherlandsNLDWestern Europe55.345
17BelgiumBELWestern Europe54.064
18MalaysiaMYSSouth-eastern Asia52.339
19Puerto RicoPRICaribbean50.720
20CyprusCYPWestern Asia50.251
21BotswanaBWASouthern Africa49.705
22Solomon IslandsSLBMelanesia47.451
23SwitzerlandCHEWestern Europe47.256
24MauritiusMUSEastern Africa44.131
25GambiaGMBWestern Africa43.961

02In 1981

At either end

The 5 countries at each end of the headline.

Highest

  1. 1Singapore198.183
  2. 2Bahrain115.324
  3. 3Hong Kong90.533
  4. 4Luxembourg87.529
  5. 5Malta72.536

Lowest

  1. 120Ghana4.756
  2. 119Bangladesh5.131
  3. 118India5.936
  4. 117Argentina6.921
  5. 116Türkiye8.237

Neither end is better. The values describe a shape, not a score. The middle country reads 26.319. “Shared” marks a value another country also holds.

031980 → 1981

Since 1980

What changed between 1980 and this one: who joined or left, and how far the headline moved.

  • +2 / −0countries joined / left
  • 118values changed, of 118 in both
  • 47 · 71rose · fell
  • 0unchanged

Rose most

Fell most

  • Iraq63.487 → 31.619−31.868
  • Kiribati55.645 → 35.758−19.887
  • Namibia70.388 → 56.390−13.998
  • Guyana81.286 → 68.923−12.363
  • Kuwait78.349 → 69.498−8.851
+ Mongolia+ Philippines

Both years come from the same release, so a difference here is a change in the data, not a revision of it. Every country’s full history is charted on the statistic page.

04Caveats

Read before you use

What this edition’s numbers are and are not, worked out from the file itself.

How values are stored

  • One year of the 2026 release

    Every year in this series comes from World Bank Group’s 2026 release, recalculated on one method. It can differ from what was first published for 1981.

  • The position is ours

    World Bank Group publishes values only; the order is this site’s.

  • Nothing missing

    Every one of the 120 countries has every column.

05The files

Download and cite

The table as a file, digit for digit, what this site changed, and a citation for this edition.

Licence in full

What this site changed: 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.

Licence: CC BY 4.0 · what it allows, in plain words

Cite this edition

World Bank Group (1981). Exports of Goods and Services (% of GDP), 1981 [data set], describing 1981. As held by Nations Inquiry, https://nationsinquiry.com/datasets/exports-to-gdp/1981

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07Questions

Exports of Goods and Services (% of GDP), 1981: questions and answers

Which country has the highest Exports as a share of GDP in Exports of Goods and Services (% of GDP), 1981?

Singapore, at 198.183, of the 120 countries in the file.

What year does Exports of Goods and Services (% of GDP), 1981 describe?

1981.

How many countries does Exports of Goods and Services (% of GDP), 1981 cover?

120.

Where can I download Exports of Goods and Services (% of GDP), 1981?

On this page, as a CSV file holding every value exactly as published, or from the publisher’s own site, linked below.

Is Exports of Goods and Services (% of GDP), 1981 the newest?

No. The newest held here is Exports of Goods and Services (% of GDP), 2025.

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