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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.

2005bar height: countries covered, up to 2032025
Every year of Services Exports held on this site, newest first, with its download files.
YearCountriesChangeReadDownload
Services Exports, 2025Newest181+1 −13September 29, 2026CSV
Services Exports, 2024193−4September 29, 2026CSV
Services Exports, 2023197±0September 29, 2026CSV
Services Exports, 2022197−4September 29, 2026CSV
Services Exports, 2021201±0September 29, 2026CSV
Services Exports, 2020201−1September 29, 2026CSV
Services Exports, 2019202−1September 29, 2026CSV
Services Exports, 2018203±0September 29, 2026CSV
Services Exports, 2017203±0September 29, 2026CSV
Services Exports, 2016203±0September 29, 2026CSV
Services Exports, 2015203+2September 29, 2026CSV
Services Exports, 2014201+2September 29, 2026CSV
Show all 21 years
YearCountriesChangeReadDownload
Services Exports, 2013199+1September 29, 2026CSV
Services Exports, 2012198+2 −1September 29, 2026CSV
Services Exports, 2011197+2September 29, 2026CSV
Services Exports, 2010195+1 −1September 29, 2026CSV
Services Exports, 2009195±0September 29, 2026CSV
Services Exports, 2008195+5September 29, 2026CSV
Services Exports, 2007190+1September 29, 2026CSV
Services Exports, 2006189+4 −1September 29, 2026CSV
Services Exports, 2005186—September 29, 2026CSV

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.

Every column in the newest file of Services Exports: what it holds, how it is stored, and its range.
ColumnWhat it holdsStored asRange, 2025DistinctEmptySpread
CountrycountryNameThe country’s name, as this file spells it.Text—1810
ISO Codecountry_codeIdentifierThe ISO 3166-1 alpha-3 code, added by this site. Every table here joins on it.Text · 3 letters—1810
Services exports (% of GDP)services_exports_gdpHeadlineThe headline figure: Services exports (% of GDP).Number · up to 5 decimals0.0850Angola166.2128Luxembourgmiddle 9.60181810
Services exports (US$ millions, current prices)services_exports_usdMeasureValue of services sold abroad during the year, in millions of US dollars at current prices.Number · up to 2 decimals9Kiribati1,237,893United Statesmiddle 6,0811800
UNCTAD footnotefootnoteLabelUNCTAD's note on the reading, where there is one; "Estimated" marks an UNCTAD–WTO estimate rather than a figure the country reported.Text—195

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.

All regions
Countries in each year of Services Exports, by continent.
201420152016201720182019202020212022202320242025
Africa535353535353535353535045
Americas434343434343434342424139
Asia485050505050494947474746
Europe404040404040404040404039
Oceania171717171716161615151512
All201203203203203202201201197197193181

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.

The site’s method
  1. 1 · Publisher

    UN Trade and Development (UNCTAD)

  2. 2 · Their file

    Services Exports 2025

  3. 3 · Read by this site

    September 29, 2026

    Imported by a script that parses each figure and writes it down unrounded.
  4. 4 · Stored as

    21 files, one per year

    Each downloads as a CSV, or every year together as services-exports-all-editions-nations-inquiry.csv
  5. 5 · 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.

Every publisher’s terms

Licence · checked September 29, 2026

CC BY 3.0 IGO

  • 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.

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.

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