Dataset · UNCTAD

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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ICT Services Exports · the file

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

20years held
2005–2024years
3,131rows across every year
118countries in the newest179 across every year
2measures per country
CC BY 3.0 IGOlicence

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.
Year	Countries	Change	Read	Download
ICT Services Exports, 2024Newest	118	+1 −40	September 26, 2026	CSV
ICT Services Exports, 2023	157	−8	September 26, 2026	CSV
ICT Services Exports, 2022	165	+1 −3	September 26, 2026	CSV
ICT Services Exports, 2021	167	−6	September 26, 2026	CSV
ICT Services Exports, 2020	173	+2	September 26, 2026	CSV
ICT Services Exports, 2019	171	+3 −2	September 26, 2026	CSV
ICT Services Exports, 2018	170	+4 −2	September 26, 2026	CSV
ICT Services Exports, 2017	168	+1 −2	September 26, 2026	CSV
ICT Services Exports, 2016	169	+2	September 26, 2026	CSV
ICT Services Exports, 2015	167	+1 −3	September 26, 2026	CSV
ICT Services Exports, 2014	169	+3	September 26, 2026	CSV
ICT Services Exports, 2013	166	+3 −1	September 26, 2026	CSV

Show all 20 years

Year	Countries	Change	Read	Download
ICT Services Exports, 2012	164	+4 −1	September 26, 2026	CSV
ICT Services Exports, 2011	161	+11	September 26, 2026	CSV
ICT Services Exports, 2010	150	+5 −1	September 26, 2026	CSV
ICT Services Exports, 2009	146	+2 −1	September 26, 2026	CSV
ICT Services Exports, 2008	145	+7 −3	September 26, 2026	CSV
ICT Services Exports, 2007	141	+6	September 26, 2026	CSV
ICT Services Exports, 2006	135	+6	September 26, 2026	CSV
ICT Services Exports, 2005	129	—	September 26, 2026	CSV

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.
Column	What it holds	Stored as	Range, 2024	Distinct	Empty
Country`country`Name	The country’s name, as this file spells it.	Text	—	118	0
ISO Code`country_code`Identifier	The ISO 3166-1 alpha-3 code, added by this site. Every table here joins on it.	Text · 3 letters	—	118	0
ICT services exports (% of services exports)`ict_services_exports`Headline	The headline figure: ICT services exports (% of services exports).	Number · up to 5 decimals	0.00000Lesotho56.24845Irelandmiddle 7.47418	118	0
ICT services exports (US$ millions, current prices)`ict_services_exports_usd`Measure	Exports of telecommunications, computer and information services, in millions of US dollars at current prices.	Number · up to 3 decimals	0.00Lesotho292,235.30Irelandmiddle 993.15	118	0
UNCTAD footnote`footnote`Label	UNCTAD's note on the reading, where there is one; "Estimated" marks an UNCTAD estimate rather than a figure the country reported.	Text	—	1	51

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.
	2013	2014	2015	2016	2017	2018	2019	2020	2021	2022	2023	2024
Africa	45	46	46	48	48	49	50	50	49	48	41	14
Americas	30	30	30	30	30	29	30	31	29	29	29	25
Asia	42	43	42	42	41	42	42	42	39	38	38	34
Europe	39	40	39	39	39	39	39	39	39	39	39	38
Oceania	10	10	10	10	10	11	10	11	11	11	10	7
All	166	169	167	169	168	170	171	173	167	165	157	118

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 · 45 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.

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 · Publisher
UN Trade and Development (UNCTAD)
unctadstat.unctad.org
2 · Their file
ICT Services Exports 2024
US_TradeServIct
3 · Read by this site
September 26, 2026
Imported by a script that parses each figure and writes it down unrounded.
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 · 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.

06Where it is used

Around the site

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

Charted
ICT Services Exports by country
Who is highest, the map, the spread, who rose and fell, and the records.
Subjects
Near neighbours
- Digitally-Deliverable Services ExportsUNCTAD · 15 held · 2010–2024
- Government AI Readiness IndexOxford Insights · 6 held · 2020–2025
- GovTech Maturity IndexWorld Bank Group · 2 held · 2022–2025

07Questions

ICT Services Exports: questions and answers

What is the ICT Services Exports?

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.

Year

Countries

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ICT Services Exports, 2024Newest

118

+1 −40

September 26, 2026