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Imports of Goods and Services (% of GDP), 1990

1990, as World Bank Group’s 2026 release gives it · stored as published, never rewritten

Imports of Goods and Services (% of GDP), 1990 covers 141 countries. Singapore is highest, at 167.13967; Argentina is lowest, at 4.63132. The middle country reads 31.11864. Against 1989, 127 values changed (68 up, 59 down), 14 countries joined.

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Imports of Goods and Services (% of GDP) · Data for 1990

HighestSingapore

167.13967

LowestArgentina

4.63132

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

01Position · derived

The table

Every country and every column of Imports of Goods and Services (% of GDP), 1990, 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 141 countries · select a heading to sort

Imports of Goods and Services (% of GDP), 1990: every country, as published by World Bank Group.
derived
1SingaporeSGPSouth-eastern Asia167.13967
2KiribatiKIRMicronesia128.67142
3Hong KongHKGEastern Asia108.73116
4LebanonLBNWestern Asia99.91302
5Solomon IslandsSLBMelanesia96.06555
6JordanJORWestern Asia89.61284
7MaltaMLTSouthern Europe88.65011
8LuxembourgLUXWestern Europe88.09828
9BahrainBHRWestern Asia83.20172
10GuyanaGUYSouth America79.85956
11MacauMACEastern Asia77.41167
12MalaysiaMYSSouth-eastern Asia72.42213
13GambiaGMBWestern Africa71.58268
14MauritiusMUSEastern Africa71.19657
15Cabo VerdeCPVWestern Africa68.81961
16VanuatuVUTMelanesia68.41520
17FijiFJIMelanesia67.15657
18SloveniaSVNSouthern Europe65.21316
19TongaTONPolynesia65.09554
20PanamaPANCentral America64.30026
21BelgiumBELWestern Europe59.85416
22KuwaitKWTWestern Asia58.07205
23CyprusCYPWestern Asia57.10764
24BahamasBHSCaribbean55.95925
25Puerto RicoPRICaribbean51.37120

02In 1990

At either end

The 5 countries at each end of the headline.

Highest

  1. 1Singapore167.13967
  2. 2Kiribati128.67142
  3. 3Hong Kong108.73116
  4. 4Lebanon99.91302
  5. 5Solomon Islands96.06555

Lowest

  1. 141Argentina4.63132
  2. 140Brazil6.95836
  3. 139Sudan7.06805
  4. 138Iraq7.42796
  5. 137India8.45291

Neither end is better. The values describe a shape, not a score. The middle country reads 31.11864. “Shared” marks a value another country also holds.

031989 → 1990

Since 1989

What changed between 1989 and this one: who joined or left, and how far the headline moved.

  • +14 / −0countries joined / left
  • 127values changed, of 127 in both
  • 68 · 59rose · fell
  • 0unchanged

Rose most

Fell most

+ Armenia+ Azerbaijan+ Belarus+ Czechia+ Kyrgyzstan+ Libya+ North Macedonia+ New Caledonia+ Oman+ Romania+ Slovakia+ Slovenia+ Tanzania+ Yemen

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 1990.

  • The position is ours

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

  • Nothing missing

    Every one of the 141 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 (1990). Imports of Goods and Services (% of GDP), 1990 [data set], describing 1990. As held by Nations Inquiry, https://nationsinquiry.com/datasets/imports-to-gdp/1990

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07Questions

Imports of Goods and Services (% of GDP), 1990: questions and answers

Which country has the highest Imports as a share of GDP in Imports of Goods and Services (% of GDP), 1990?

Singapore, at 167.13967, of the 141 countries in the file.

What year does Imports of Goods and Services (% of GDP), 1990 describe?

1990.

How many countries does Imports of Goods and Services (% of GDP), 1990 cover?

141.

Where can I download Imports of Goods and Services (% of GDP), 1990?

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

Is Imports of Goods and Services (% of GDP), 1990 the newest?

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

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