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Report year 1985Data year 1985
Imports of goods and services (% of GDP)Neither end is better — this is a shape, not a scorePublished by World Bank Group
56 reference years (1970–2025), covering 97 to 185 countries, pulled from the World Bank’s indicator API (NE.IMP.GNFS.ZS). Everything a country buys from abroad, goods and services together, measured against its own output. ⚠ NEITHER END IS BETTER, so this indicator carries no good/bad colouring anywhere on the site and does not feed its topics’ rankings — it is charted on them, not scored by them. Reading a high figure as weakness is the usual mistake: an economy importing 90% of GDP is normally a small open one, not a failing one. ⚠ The other half of `trade-to-gdp`; the gap between this and exports is a country’s trade balance. ⚠ These are not 56 published reports — see `restatedByReport`. ⚠ No rank is published. A POSITION is derived here (2026-09-10) by ordering the score LARGEST FIRST, and it is a SIZE ORDER rather than a league table: this measure has no better end, so position 1 names the country with the biggest figure and says nothing about how that country is doing. The change arrows stay grey for the same reason, and the indicator is still left out of the Country Index.
Imports of Goods and Services (% of GDP) 1985 — World Bank Group
Cite as: World Bank. World Development Indicators. Washington, DC: World Bank Group.
Licence: CC BY 4.0
Everything a country buys from abroad, goods and services together, as a share of its own output — published by the World Bank via its indicator API (NE.IMP.GNFS.ZS). ⚠ Neither end is better, and reading a high figure as weakness is the usual mistake: an economy importing 90% of GDP is normally a small open one, not a failing one. Read beside exports, whose difference from this is a country's trade balance. No rank is published, so none is stored or derived.
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