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Trade (% of GDP), 1991

1991, as World Bank Group’s 2026 release gives it · stored as published, never rewritten

Trade (% of GDP), 1991 covers 143 countries. Singapore is highest, at 323.8880; Iraq is lowest, at 3.7911. The middle country reads 56.4792. Against 1990, 139 values changed (57 up, 82 down), 4 countries joined, 2 left.

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Trade (% of GDP) · Data for 1991

HighestSingapore

323.8880

LowestIraq

3.7911

Shaded by value in five groups of equal size, darkest at the highest end.

01Position · derived

The table

Every country and every column of Trade (% of GDP), 1991, 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 143 countries · select a heading to sort

Trade (% of GDP), 1991: every country, as published by World Bank Group.
derived
1SingaporeSGPSouth-eastern Asia323.8880
2Hong KongHKGEastern Asia231.8651
3GuyanaGUYSouth America222.6091
4LuxembourgLUXWestern Europe188.6639
5MacauMACEastern Asia168.5248
6Solomon IslandsSLBMelanesia168.2004
7MaltaMLTSouthern Europe165.2378
8MalaysiaMYSSouth-eastern Asia159.3114
9BahrainBHRWestern Asia158.8678
10KuwaitKWTWestern Asia142.6130
11PanamaPANCentral America140.2466
12JordanJORWestern Asia137.2617
13MongoliaMNGEastern Asia136.6038
14KiribatiKIRMicronesia134.2088
15SloveniaSVNSouthern Europe130.0994
16MauritiusMUSEastern Africa126.6489
17BelgiumBELWestern Europe118.5901
18FijiFJIMelanesia117.8159
19Puerto RicoPRICaribbean115.3011
20IrelandIRLNorthern Europe106.4402
21BahamasBHSCaribbean106.1186
22NetherlandsNLDWestern Europe105.1946
23CyprusCYPWestern Asia104.1799
24ArmeniaARMWestern Asia100.8659
25BotswanaBWASouthern Africa99.5584

02In 1991

At either end

The 5 countries at each end of the headline.

Highest

  1. 1Singapore323.8880
  2. 2Hong Kong231.8651
  3. 3Guyana222.6091
  4. 4Luxembourg188.6639
  5. 5Macau168.5248

Lowest

  1. 143Iraq3.7911
  2. 142Argentina13.7531
  3. 141Sudan15.0730
  4. 140Brazil16.5921
  5. 139India16.9877

Neither end is better. The values describe a shape, not a score. The middle country reads 56.4792. “Shared” marks a value another country also holds.

031990 → 1991

Since 1990

What changed between 1990 and this one: who joined or left, and how far the headline moved.

  • +4 / −2countries joined / left
  • 139values changed, of 139 in both
  • 57 · 82rose · fell
  • 0unchanged

Rose most

Fell most

  • Gambia131.4854 → 64.1029−67.3825
  • Georgia85.5272 → 59.1623−26.3649
  • Bahrain184.8288 → 158.8678−25.9610
  • Lebanon117.9058 → 92.4547−25.4511
  • Belarus89.6074 → 66.6667−22.9407
+ Hungary+ Mozambique+ French Polynesia+ Turkmenistan− Somalia− Venezuela

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 1991.

  • The position is ours

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

  • Nothing missing

    Every one of the 143 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 (1991). Trade (% of GDP), 1991 [data set], describing 1991. As held by Nations Inquiry, https://nationsinquiry.com/datasets/trade-to-gdp/1991

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07Questions

Trade (% of GDP), 1991: questions and answers

Which country has the highest trade openness in Trade (% of GDP), 1991?

Singapore, at 323.8880, of the 143 countries in the file.

What year does Trade (% of GDP), 1991 describe?

1991.

How many countries does Trade (% of GDP), 1991 cover?

143.

Where can I download Trade (% of GDP), 1991?

On this page, as a CSV file holding every value exactly as published, or from the publisher’s own site, linked below.

Is Trade (% of GDP), 1991 the newest?

No. The newest held here is Trade (% of GDP), 2025.

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