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Imports of Goods and Services (% of GDP), 2008

2008, as World Bank Group’s 2026 release gives it · stored as published, never rewritten

Imports of Goods and Services (% of GDP), 2008 covers 179 countries. United States Virgin Islands is highest, at 429.359; Venezuela is lowest, at 0.000. The middle country reads 43.650. Against 2007, 174 values changed (121 up, 53 down), 4 countries joined, 1 left.

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Imports of Goods and Services (% of GDP) · Data for 2008

HighestUnited States Virgin Islands

429.359

LowestVenezuela

0.000

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), 2008, 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 179 countries · select a heading to sort

Imports of Goods and Services (% of GDP), 2008: every country, as published by World Bank Group.
derived
1United States Virgin IslandsVIRCaribbean429.359
2SingaporeSGPSouth-eastern Asia208.333
3Hong KongHKGEastern Asia183.242
4American SamoaASMPolynesia135.357
5LuxembourgLUXWestern Europe130.719
6Timor-LesteTLSSouth-eastern Asia125.904
7SeychellesSYCEastern Africa110.708
8LesothoLSOSouthern Africa108.208
9CuraçaoCUWCaribbean97.273
10MaltaMLTSouthern Europe94.277
11MoldovaMDAEastern Europe93.603
12MontenegroMNESouthern Europe92.919
13Marshall IslandsMHLMicronesia92.669
14KyrgyzstanKGZCentral Asia92.557
15MicronesiaFSMMicronesia86.590
16PanamaPANCentral America86.288
17HondurasHNDCentral America84.424
18VietnamVNMSouth-eastern Asia83.981
19SlovakiaSVKEastern Europe82.260
20KiribatiKIRMicronesia81.330
21PalauPLWMicronesia80.862
22TajikistanTJKCentral Asia80.465
23BelgiumBELWestern Europe80.208
24HungaryHUNEastern Europe79.249
25MalaysiaMYSSouth-eastern Asia77.169

02In 2008

At either end

The 5 countries at each end of the headline.

Highest

  1. 1United States Virgin Islands429.359
  2. 2Singapore208.333
  3. 3Hong Kong183.242
  4. 4American Samoa135.357
  5. 5Luxembourg130.719

Lowest

  1. 179Venezuela0.000
  2. 178Sierra Leone13.493
  3. 177Brazil13.724
  4. 176Sudan16.476
  5. 175Japan16.719

Neither end is better. The values describe a shape, not a score. The middle country reads 43.650. “Shared” marks a value another country also holds.

032007 → 2008

Since 2007

What changed between 2007 and this one: who joined or left, and how far the headline moved.

  • +4 / −1countries joined / left
  • 174values changed, of 175 in both
  • 121 · 53rose · fell
  • 1unchanged

Rose most

Fell most

+ Nauru+ South Sudan+ São Tomé and Príncipe+ Kosovo− Jordan

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 2008.

  • The position is ours

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

  • Nothing missing

    Every one of the 179 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 (2008). Imports of Goods and Services (% of GDP), 2008 [data set], describing 2008. As held by Nations Inquiry, https://nationsinquiry.com/datasets/imports-to-gdp/2008

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07Questions

Imports of Goods and Services (% of GDP), 2008: questions and answers

Which country has the highest Imports as a share of GDP in Imports of Goods and Services (% of GDP), 2008?

United States Virgin Islands, at 429.359, of the 179 countries in the file.

What year does Imports of Goods and Services (% of GDP), 2008 describe?

2008.

How many countries does Imports of Goods and Services (% of GDP), 2008 cover?

179.

Where can I download Imports of Goods and Services (% of GDP), 2008?

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), 2008 the newest?

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

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