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Imports of Goods and Services (% of GDP), 2017

2017, as World Bank Group’s 2026 release gives it · stored as published, never rewritten

Imports of Goods and Services (% of GDP), 2017 covers 185 countries. Hong Kong is highest, at 187.893; Venezuela is lowest, at 9.282. The middle country reads 41.854. Against 2016, 183 values changed (108 up, 75 down), 2 countries joined, 1 left.

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Imports of Goods and Services (% of GDP) · Data for 2017

HighestHong Kong

187.893

LowestVenezuela

9.282

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), 2017, 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 185 countries · select a heading to sort

Imports of Goods and Services (% of GDP), 2017: every country, as published by World Bank Group.
derived
1Hong KongHKGEastern Asia187.893
2LuxembourgLUXWestern Europe161.046
3DjiboutiDJIEastern Africa155.870
4San MarinoSMRSouthern Europe145.072
5SingaporeSGPSouth-eastern Asia144.428
6IrelandIRLNorthern Europe104.808
7SeychellesSYCEastern Africa103.533
8American SamoaASMPolynesia102.288
9LesothoLSOSouthern Africa98.890
10MaltaMLTSouthern Europe96.421
11United States Virgin IslandsVIRCaribbean94.360
12SlovakiaSVKEastern Europe92.692
13KiribatiKIRMicronesia87.245
14Marshall IslandsMHLMicronesia86.032
15BelgiumBELWestern Europe83.460
16NauruNRUMicronesia82.069
17CuraçaoCUWCaribbean80.183
18HungaryHUNEastern Europe79.287
19VietnamVNMSouth-eastern Asia79.218
20PalauPLWMicronesia77.024
21SloveniaSVNSouthern Europe74.820
22NetherlandsNLDWestern Europe74.467
23CyprusCYPWestern Asia74.177
24MaldivesMDVSouthern Asia72.853
25LithuaniaLTUNorthern Europe71.312

02In 2017

At either end

The 5 countries at each end of the headline.

Highest

  1. 1Hong Kong187.893
  2. 2Luxembourg161.046
  3. 3Djibouti155.870
  4. 4San Marino145.072
  5. 5Singapore144.428

Lowest

  1. 185Venezuela9.282
  2. 184Cuba11.671
  3. 183Sudan11.719
  4. 182Brazil11.801
  5. 181Argentina13.969

Neither end is better. The values describe a shape, not a score. The middle country reads 41.854. “Shared” marks a value another country also holds.

032016 → 2017

Since 2016

What changed between 2016 and this one: who joined or left, and how far the headline moved.

  • +2 / −1countries joined / left
  • 183values changed, of 183 in both
  • 108 · 75rose · fell
  • 0unchanged

Rose most

Fell most

+ Cayman Islands+ Malawi− Laos

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 2017.

  • The position is ours

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

  • Nothing missing

    Every one of the 185 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 (2017). Imports of Goods and Services (% of GDP), 2017 [data set], describing 2017. As held by Nations Inquiry, https://nationsinquiry.com/datasets/imports-to-gdp/2017

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07Questions

Imports of Goods and Services (% of GDP), 2017: questions and answers

Which country has the highest Imports as a share of GDP in Imports of Goods and Services (% of GDP), 2017?

Hong Kong, at 187.893, of the 185 countries in the file.

What year does Imports of Goods and Services (% of GDP), 2017 describe?

2017.

How many countries does Imports of Goods and Services (% of GDP), 2017 cover?

185.

Where can I download Imports of Goods and Services (% of GDP), 2017?

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), 2017 the newest?

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

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