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ICT Services Exports

20 years, 2005–2024 · 118 countries · 2 measures

ICT services exports are what a country earns abroad from telecommunications, computer and information services — software, IT outsourcing, data processing and telecoms — as a share of all its services exports. It is the narrowest measure on the site of how far a country sells technology services to the world.

This site holds every year from 2005 to 2024, read from UNCTAD’s own data and stored exactly as published.

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Newest
ICT Services Exports, 2024
Held
20 years · 3,131 rows
Licence
CC BY 3.0 IGO

0120 years

Every year

Newest first. Each opens the full table for that year, and each downloads as a CSV.

2005bar height: countries covered, up to 1732024
Every year of ICT Services Exports held on this site, newest first, with its download files.
YearCountriesChangeReadDownload
ICT Services Exports, 2024Newest118+1 −40September 26, 2026CSV
ICT Services Exports, 2023157−8September 26, 2026CSV
ICT Services Exports, 2022165+1 −3September 26, 2026CSV
ICT Services Exports, 2021167−6September 26, 2026CSV
ICT Services Exports, 2020173+2September 26, 2026CSV
ICT Services Exports, 2019171+3 −2September 26, 2026CSV
ICT Services Exports, 2018170+4 −2September 26, 2026CSV
ICT Services Exports, 2017168+1 −2September 26, 2026CSV
ICT Services Exports, 2016169+2September 26, 2026CSV
ICT Services Exports, 2015167+1 −3September 26, 2026CSV
ICT Services Exports, 2014169+3September 26, 2026CSV
ICT Services Exports, 2013166+3 −1September 26, 2026CSV
Show all 20 years
YearCountriesChangeReadDownload
ICT Services Exports, 2012164+4 −1September 26, 2026CSV
ICT Services Exports, 2011161+11September 26, 2026CSV
ICT Services Exports, 2010150+5 −1September 26, 2026CSV
ICT Services Exports, 2009146+2 −1September 26, 2026CSV
ICT Services Exports, 2008145+7 −3September 26, 2026CSV
ICT Services Exports, 2007141+6September 26, 2026CSV
ICT Services Exports, 2006135+6September 26, 2026CSV
ICT Services Exports, 2005129—September 26, 2026CSV

Every year in one file, one row per country per year: ict-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 ICT 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—1180
ISO Codecountry_codeIdentifierThe ISO 3166-1 alpha-3 code, added by this site. Every table here joins on it.Text · 3 letters—1180
ICT services exports (% of services exports)ict_services_exportsHeadlineThe headline figure: ICT services exports (% of services exports).Number · up to 5 decimals0.00000Lesotho56.24845Irelandmiddle 7.474181180
ICT services exports (US$ millions, current prices)ict_services_exports_usdMeasureExports of telecommunications, computer and information services, in millions of US dollars at current prices.Number · up to 3 decimals0.00Lesotho292,235.30Irelandmiddle 993.151180
UNCTAD footnotefootnoteLabelUNCTAD's note on the reading, where there is one; "Estimated" marks an UNCTAD estimate rather than a figure the country reported.Text—151

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. A higher value is the better result.

03179 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 ICT Services Exports, by continent.
201320142015201620172018201920202021202220232024
Africa454646484849505049484114
Americas303030303029303129292925
Asia424342424142424239383834
Europe394039393939393939393938
Oceania10101010101110111111107
All166169167169168170171173167165157118

The newest 12 of 20 years.

Who joined and who left

  • 2024
    + Nepal− Burundi− Benin− Burkina Faso− Bolivia− Botswana− Central African Republic− Cameroon− DR Congo− Cayman Islands− Ethiopia− Faroe Islands− Guinea− Guinea-Bissau− Equatorial Guinea− Guyana− Hong Kong− Haiti− Iraq− Kenya− Laos− Lebanon− Libya− Morocco− Mali− Mauritania− Malawi− Niger− Oman− Palau− French Polynesia− Rwanda− Senegal− Sierra Leone− South Sudan− Eswatini− Chad− Tuvalu− Tanzania− Zambia− Zimbabwe
  • 2023
    − Côte d’Ivoire− Comoros− Gabon− Madagascar− Sudan− São Tomé and Príncipe− Tunisia− Vanuatu
  • 2022
    + French Polynesia− Republic of the Congo− Kiribati− Nepal
  • 2021
    − Afghanistan− Barbados− Myanmar− Togo− Venezuela− Yemen
  • 2020
    + Barbados+ Kiribati
  • 2019
    + Republic of the Congo+ Venezuela+ Yemen− Micronesia− Iran
  • 2018
    + Egypt+ Ghana+ Vietnam+ Samoa− Barbados− Republic of the Congo
  • 2017
    + Cayman Islands− Venezuela− Yemen

Not in this dataset · 46 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 SamoaAndorraAnguillaAntigua and BarbudaArubaBahamasBritish Virgin IslandsBruneiChannel IslandsCook IslandsCubaDominicaEritreaGibraltarGreenlandGrenadaGuamIsle of ManJordanLiberiaLiechtensteinMarshall IslandsMonacoMontserratNauruNiueNorth KoreaNorthern CyprusNorthern Mariana IslandsPuerto RicoQatarSaint Kitts and NevisSaint LuciaSaint MartinSaint Vincent and the GrenadinesSan MarinoSaudi ArabiaSomaliaSomalilandSouth AfricaSwitzerlandTaiwanTurkmenistanTurks and Caicos IslandsUnited States Virgin IslandsVatican City

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

    ICT Services Exports 2024

    US_TradeServIct

  3. 3 · Read by this site

    September 26, 2026

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

  4. 4 · Stored as

    20 files, one per year

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

  5. 5 · Used on

    Its statistic page, and every profile it measures

    /statistics/ict-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.TradeServIct bulk file on UNCTADstat rather than the World Bank's copy, which is the IMF's balance-of-payments series under a restrictive licence. UNCTAD's regional and group totals are left out; 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 26, 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), ICT Services Exports, via Nations Inquiry.

Cite this dataset

UN Trade and Development (UNCTAD). ICT Services Exports, 2005–2024 [data set]. As held by Nations Inquiry, https://nationsinquiry.com/datasets/ict-services-exports

The publisher’s own citation: UN Trade and Development (UNCTAD). Trade in ICT services, value, shares and growth, annual. Geneva: UNCTAD Data Hub.

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

06Questions

ICT Services Exports: questions and answers

What is the ICT Services Exports?

ICT services exports are what a country earns abroad from telecommunications, computer and information services — software, IT outsourcing, data processing and telecoms — as a share of all its services exports. It is the narrowest measure on the site of how far a country sells technology services to the world.

Which years of the ICT Services Exports can I download?

All 20, from 2005 to 2024, each as a CSV file, or every year together in one CSV.

Does UNCTAD rank countries on it?

No. UNCTAD publishes values only. The positions shown on this site are derived by ordering the published values, and are labelled as ours.

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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