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ICT Services Exports, 2018

Figures for 2018, as UNCTAD published them · stored as published, never rewritten

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.

ICT Services Exports, 2018 covers 170 countries on 2 measures. Ireland is highest, at 46.1510; Sudan is lowest, at 0.0076. The middle country reads 4.8425. Against 2017, 166 values changed (79 up, 87 down), 4 countries joined, 2 left.

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ICT Services Exports · Data for 2018

HighestIreland

46.1510

LowestSudan

0.0076

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

01Position · derived

The table

Every country and every column of ICT Services Exports, 2018, as published. UNCTAD ranks nobody on this measure; the position is derived here by ordering the published values. “=” marks a shared position.

Showing 25 of 170 countries · select a heading to sort

ICT Services Exports, 2018: every country, as published by UN Trade and Development (UNCTAD).
derived
1IrelandIRLNorthern Europe46.1510115,141.327Estimated
2KuwaitKWTWestern Asia40.20823,264.433Estimated
3MaliMLIWestern Africa37.1080223.001—
4NigerNERWestern Africa34.312784.737—
5Guinea-BissauGNBWestern Africa28.853211.800Estimated
6IsraelISRWestern Asia28.319014,796.800—
7IndiaINDSouthern Asia28.237057,873.277Estimated
8MalawiMWIEastern Africa26.872055.772—
9FinlandFINNorthern Europe25.92878,531.215—
10UkraineUKREastern Europe21.79213,451.000—
11GuineaGINWestern Africa21.443421.660Estimated
12BelarusBLREastern Europe20.79091,837.500—
13SwedenSWENorthern Europe20.765815,890.330—
14GuatemalaGTMCentral America19.9978741.315—
15LibyaLBYNorthern Africa19.895326.600Estimated
16ComorosCOMEastern Africa19.112520.219Estimated
17PakistanPAKSouthern Asia18.99581,127.000—
18SerbiaSRBSouthern Europe18.37021,328.220Estimated
19RomaniaROUEastern Europe17.82634,999.227—
20ChinaCHNEastern Asia17.335647,057.609—
21PalestinePSEWestern Asia16.5368124.375Estimated
22TongaTONPolynesia16.285814.744—
23CyprusCYPWestern Asia16.18722,401.128Estimated
24UruguayURYSouth America16.0659879.226—
25PhilippinesPHLSouth-eastern Asia15.38315,906.671—

02In 2018

At either end

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

Highest

  1. 1Ireland46.1510
  2. 2Kuwait40.2082
  3. 3Mali37.1080
  4. 4Niger34.3127
  5. 5Guinea-Bissau28.8532

Lowest

  1. 170Sudan0.0076
  2. 169Central African Republic0.0120
  3. 168Macau0.0690
  4. 167São Tomé and Príncipe0.0709
  5. 166Palau0.1337

A higher value is the better result. The middle country reads 4.8425. “Shared” marks a value another country also holds.

Each measure’s ends

032017 → 2018

Since 2017

What changed between 2017 and this one: who joined or left, and how far the headline moved.

  • +4 / −2countries joined / left
  • 166values changed, of 166 in both
  • 79 · 87rose · fell
  • 0unchanged

Rose most

  • Guinea1.0886 → 21.4434+20.3548
  • Ireland36.7662 → 46.1510+9.3848
  • Tonga9.6662 → 16.2858+6.6196
  • China12.1739 → 17.3356+5.1617
  • Nicaragua11.1710 → 14.9237+3.7527

Fell most

+ Egypt+ Ghana+ Vietnam+ Samoa− Barbados− Republic of the Congo

Changes in value, not in places: a country’s place also moves when others do. Every country’s full history is charted on the statistic page.

04Caveats

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

How values are stored

  • The position is ours

    UNCTAD publishes values only; the order is this site’s.

  • 134 empty cells

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

05The files

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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.

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Cite this edition

UN Trade and Development (UNCTAD) (2018). ICT Services Exports, 2018 [data set], describing 2018. As held by Nations Inquiry, https://nationsinquiry.com/datasets/ict-services-exports/2018

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