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Imports of Goods and Services (% of GDP), 2019

2019, as World Bank Group’s 2026 release gives it · stored as published, never rewritten

Imports of Goods and Services (% of GDP), 2019 covers 183 countries. Hong Kong is highest, at 176.0922; Cuba is lowest, at 10.6075. The middle country reads 41.4696. Against 2018, 183 values changed (67 up, 116 down), 2 left.

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Imports of Goods and Services (% of GDP) · Data for 2019

HighestHong Kong

176.0922

LowestCuba

10.6075

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), 2019, 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 183 countries · select a heading to sort

Imports of Goods and Services (% of GDP), 2019: every country, as published by World Bank Group.
derived
1Hong KongHKGEastern Asia176.0922
2LuxembourgLUXWestern Europe176.0806
3DjiboutiDJIEastern Africa154.2214
4SingaporeSGPSouth-eastern Asia147.4510
5San MarinoSMRSouthern Europe143.2675
6IrelandIRLNorthern Europe126.4283
7Marshall IslandsMHLMicronesia115.9459
8MaltaMLTSouthern Europe108.5504
9United States Virgin IslandsVIRCaribbean100.4611
10NauruNRUMicronesia95.5117
11American SamoaASMPolynesia94.8995
12LesothoLSOSouthern Africa94.3073
13SlovakiaSVKEastern Europe91.8785
14SeychellesSYCEastern Africa91.0516
15KiribatiKIRMicronesia83.3677
16BelgiumBELWestern Europe82.4981
17VietnamVNMSouth-eastern Asia79.5466
18HungaryHUNEastern Europe78.8599
19PalauPLWMicronesia77.1751
20North MacedoniaMKDSouthern Europe76.1682
21SloveniaSVNSouthern Europe75.6872
22NetherlandsNLDWestern Europe75.3557
23CyprusCYPWestern Asia74.7473
24MaldivesMDVSouthern Asia71.6118
25LithuaniaLTUNorthern Europe71.5563

02In 2019

At either end

The 5 countries at each end of the headline.

Highest

  1. 1Hong Kong176.0922
  2. 2Luxembourg176.0806
  3. 3Djibouti154.2214
  4. 4Singapore147.4510
  5. 5San Marino143.2675

Lowest

  1. 183Cuba10.6075
  2. 182Venezuela10.9331
  3. 181Turkmenistan12.9668
  4. 180United States14.4693
  5. 179Argentina14.7057

Neither end is better. The values describe a shape, not a score. The middle country reads 41.4696. “Shared” marks a value another country also holds.

032018 → 2019

Since 2018

What changed between 2018 and this one: who joined or left, and how far the headline moved.

  • +0 / −2countries joined / left
  • 183values changed, of 183 in both
  • 67 · 116rose · fell
  • 0unchanged

Rose most

Fell most

− Curaçao− 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 2019.

  • The position is ours

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

  • Nothing missing

    Every one of the 183 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 (2019). Imports of Goods and Services (% of GDP), 2019 [data set], describing 2019. As held by Nations Inquiry, https://nationsinquiry.com/datasets/imports-to-gdp/2019

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07Questions

Imports of Goods and Services (% of GDP), 2019: questions and answers

Which country has the highest Imports as a share of GDP in Imports of Goods and Services (% of GDP), 2019?

Hong Kong, at 176.0922, of the 183 countries in the file.

What year does Imports of Goods and Services (% of GDP), 2019 describe?

2019.

How many countries does Imports of Goods and Services (% of GDP), 2019 cover?

183.

Where can I download Imports of Goods and Services (% of GDP), 2019?

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), 2019 the newest?

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

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