Dataset · UNCTAD
Services Exports
21 years, 2005–2025 · 181 countries · 2 measures
Services exports are what a country earns from selling services to the rest of the world — visitors' spending, shipping and air transport, finance and insurance, software and telecoms, consulting and royalties — shown as a share of GDP so that economies of every size can be compared. It is the half of trade that goods statistics leave out.
This site holds every year from 2005 to 2025, read from UNCTAD’s own data and stored exactly as published.
Services Exports · the file
- Newest
- Services Exports, 2025
- Held
- 21 years · 4,129 rows
- Licence
- CC BY 3.0 IGO
0121 years
Every year
Every year comes from UNCTAD’s 2026 release, recalculated on one method. Each opens the full table for that year; each downloads as a CSV.
| Year | Countries | Change | Read | Download |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Services Exports, 2025Newest | 181 | +1 −13 | September 29, 2026 | CSV |
| Services Exports, 2024 | 193 | −4 | September 29, 2026 | CSV |
| Services Exports, 2023 | 197 | ±0 | September 29, 2026 | CSV |
| Services Exports, 2022 | 197 | −4 | September 29, 2026 | CSV |
| Services Exports, 2021 | 201 | ±0 | September 29, 2026 | CSV |
| Services Exports, 2020 | 201 | −1 | September 29, 2026 | CSV |
| Services Exports, 2019 | 202 | −1 | September 29, 2026 | CSV |
| Services Exports, 2018 | 203 | ±0 | September 29, 2026 | CSV |
| Services Exports, 2017 | 203 | ±0 | September 29, 2026 | CSV |
| Services Exports, 2016 | 203 | ±0 | September 29, 2026 | CSV |
| Services Exports, 2015 | 203 | +2 | September 29, 2026 | CSV |
| Services Exports, 2014 | 201 | +2 | September 29, 2026 | CSV |
Show all 21 years
| Year | Countries | Change | Read | Download |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Services Exports, 2013 | 199 | +1 | September 29, 2026 | CSV |
| Services Exports, 2012 | 198 | +2 −1 | September 29, 2026 | CSV |
| Services Exports, 2011 | 197 | +2 | September 29, 2026 | CSV |
| Services Exports, 2010 | 195 | +1 −1 | September 29, 2026 | CSV |
| Services Exports, 2009 | 195 | ±0 | September 29, 2026 | CSV |
| Services Exports, 2008 | 195 | +5 | September 29, 2026 | CSV |
| Services Exports, 2007 | 190 | +1 | September 29, 2026 | CSV |
| Services Exports, 2006 | 189 | +4 −1 | September 29, 2026 | CSV |
| Services Exports, 2005 | 186 | — | September 29, 2026 | CSV |
Every year in one file, one row per country per year: services-exports-all-editions-nations-inquiry.csv
025 columns
What’s in the file
Every column, what it holds, how it is stored and what its values look like — what a reader needs before opening the file.
| Column | What it holds | Stored as | Range, 2025 | Distinct | Empty | Spread |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
CountrycountryName | The country’s name, as this file spells it. | Text | — | 181 | 0 | |
ISO Codecountry_codeIdentifier | The ISO 3166-1 alpha-3 code, added by this site. Every table here joins on it. | Text · 3 letters | — | 181 | 0 | |
Services exports (% of GDP)services_exports_gdpHeadline | The headline figure: Services exports (% of GDP). | Number · up to 5 decimals | 0.0850 | 181 | 0 | |
Services exports (US$ millions, current prices)services_exports_usdMeasure | Value of services sold abroad during the year, in millions of US dollars at current prices. | Number · up to 2 decimals | 9 | 180 | 0 | |
UNCTAD footnotefootnoteLabel | UNCTAD's note on the reading, where there is one; "Estimated" marks an UNCTAD–WTO estimate rather than a figure the country reported. | Text | — | 1 | 95 |
Profiled from the newest file. Range: the lowest and highest value, with the country holding it when only one does. Spread: countries in ten equal steps from lowest to highest. Neither end is better. The values describe a shape, not a score.
03203 countries across every year
Who is covered
How many countries each year holds, continent by continent, who joined and who left, and which places this site covers that the dataset never has.
| 2014 | 2015 | 2016 | 2017 | 2018 | 2019 | 2020 | 2021 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Africa | 53 | 53 | 53 | 53 | 53 | 53 | 53 | 53 | 53 | 53 | 50 | 45 |
| Americas | 43 | 43 | 43 | 43 | 43 | 43 | 43 | 43 | 42 | 42 | 41 | 39 |
| Asia | 48 | 50 | 50 | 50 | 50 | 50 | 49 | 49 | 47 | 47 | 47 | 46 |
| Europe | 40 | 40 | 40 | 40 | 40 | 40 | 40 | 40 | 40 | 40 | 40 | 39 |
| Oceania | 17 | 17 | 17 | 17 | 17 | 16 | 16 | 16 | 15 | 15 | 15 | 12 |
| All | 201 | 203 | 203 | 203 | 203 | 202 | 201 | 201 | 197 | 197 | 193 | 181 |
The newest 12 of 21 years.
Who joined and who left
- 2025
+ Guyana
− Burundi
− Bulgaria
− Cameroon
− Cuba
− Cayman Islands
− Iran
− New Caledonia
− French Polynesia
− Sudan
− Somalia
− Turks and Caicos Islands
− Tonga
− Zimbabwe
- 2024
− Central African Republic
− Republic of the Congo
− Equatorial Guinea
− Guyana
- 2022
− Cook Islands
− Turkmenistan
− Venezuela
− Yemen
- 2020
− Syria
- 2019
− Micronesia
- 2015
+ Syria
+ Turkmenistan
- 2014
+ South Sudan
+ Turks and Caicos Islands
- 2013
+ Somalia
Not in this dataset · 22 places this site covers
UNCTAD gives no figure for these in any year held here. It is the publisher’s choice of scope, and each place’s profile shows what is measured.
04Provenance
Where it comes from
The path from the publisher to this page, and what was checked and changed on the way.
1 · Publisher
UN Trade and Development (UNCTAD)
2 · Their file
Services Exports 2025
3 · Read by this site
September 29, 2026
Imported by a script that parses each figure and writes it down unrounded.4 · Stored as
21 files, one per year
Each downloads as a CSV, or every year together as services-exports-all-editions-nations-inquiry.csv5 · Used on
Its statistic page, and every profile it measures
Precision
The headline is stored to 5 decimals, as published.
Rounded by this site
Never. Tables on screen may show fewer decimals; the files never do.
Changed by this site
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.
Read from UNCTAD's own US.TradeServCatTotal bulk file on UNCTADstat — the WTO-UNCTAD Trade in Services Data Set. UNCTAD's regional and group totals are left out; the US$ amount is kept beside the share, and UNCTAD's "Estimated" footnote travels with every reading it estimated.
05Reuse
Licence and credit
What the publisher’s licence lets you do, what it asks of you, and a credit line and citation ready to copy.
Licence · checked September 29, 2026
- Share and redistribute it
- Adapt it and build on it
- Use it commercially
- Credit the publisher
- Say what you changed
The version of CC BY written for intergovernmental organisations. Credit the publisher and say what you changed.
A credit line
Source: UN Trade and Development (UNCTAD), Services Exports, via Nations Inquiry.
Cite this dataset
UN Trade and Development (UNCTAD). Services Exports, 2005–2025 [data set]. As held by Nations Inquiry, https://nationsinquiry.com/datasets/services-exports
The publisher’s own citation: WTO-UNCTAD Trade in Services Data Set. Services: trade by category, annual. Geneva: UN Trade and Development (UNCTAD) Data Hub.
Plain-language summary, not legal advice. The licence text is what binds.
06Where it is used
Around the site
Where these numbers appear on this site, and the datasets nearest to it.
Charted
Services Exports by countryWho is highest, the map, the spread, who rose and fell, and the records.
Subjects
Near neighbours
- ICT Goods ExportsUNCTAD · 25 held · 2000–2024
- Container Import Dwell TimeWorld Bank Group · 2 held · 2023–2024
- Exports of Goods and Services (% of GDP)World Bank Group · 56 held · 1970–2025
07Questions
Services Exports: questions and answers
What is the Services Exports?
Services exports are what a country earns from selling services to the rest of the world — visitors' spending, shipping and air transport, finance and insurance, software and telecoms, consulting and royalties — shown as a share of GDP so that economies of every size can be compared. It is the half of trade that goods statistics leave out.
Which years of the Services Exports can I download?
All 21, from 2005 to 2025, each as a CSV file, or every year together in one CSV.
Does UNCTAD rank countries on it?
No, and this site does not order it either. The files hold values only.
Can I use it commercially?
Yes, under CC BY 3.0 IGO, with credit to UNCTAD. The licence text is linked on this page.