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Trade (% of GDP), 2002

2002, as World Bank Group’s 2026 release gives it · stored as published, never rewritten

Trade (% of GDP), 2002 covers 170 countries. Singapore is highest, at 349.746; Japan is lowest, at 20.143. The middle country reads 72.469. Against 2001, 164 values changed (75 up, 89 down), 6 countries joined.

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Trade (% of GDP) · Data for 2002

HighestSingapore

349.746

LowestJapan

20.143

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), 2002, 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 170 countries · select a heading to sort

Trade (% of GDP), 2002: every country, as published by World Bank Group.
derived
1SingaporeSGPSouth-eastern Asia349.746
2United States Virgin IslandsVIRCaribbean283.170
3Hong KongHKGEastern Asia255.996
4LuxembourgLUXWestern Europe250.689
5American SamoaASMPolynesia210.938
6MalaysiaMYSSouth-eastern Asia199.356
7GuyanaGUYSouth America196.725
8Timor-LesteTLSSouth-eastern Asia180.404
9IrelandIRLNorthern Europe163.719
10MaltaMLTSouthern Europe162.524
11SeychellesSYCEastern Africa156.930
12MacauMACEastern Asia152.383
13Northern Mariana IslandsMNPMicronesia151.947
14TajikistanTJKCentral Asia138.684
15BelgiumBELWestern Europe136.085
16Republic of the CongoCOGMiddle Africa135.456
17ArubaABWCaribbean133.231
18BahrainBHRWestern Asia131.134
19BelarusBLREastern Europe131.002
20MoldovaMDAEastern Europe129.840
21ChadTCDMiddle Africa126.351
22FijiFJIMelanesia126.053
23PanamaPANCentral America126.024
24KiribatiKIRMicronesia125.625
25CyprusCYPWestern Asia123.641

02In 2002

At either end

The 5 countries at each end of the headline.

Highest

  1. 1Singapore349.746
  2. 2United States Virgin Islands283.170
  3. 3Hong Kong255.996
  4. 4Luxembourg250.689
  5. 5American Samoa210.938

Lowest

  1. 170Japan20.143
  2. 169United States22.286
  3. 168Pakistan23.129
  4. 167Cuba24.729
  5. 166Haiti24.940

Neither end is better. The values describe a shape, not a score. The middle country reads 72.469. “Shared” marks a value another country also holds.

032001 → 2002

Since 2001

What changed between 2001 and this one: who joined or left, and how far the headline moved.

  • +6 / −0countries joined / left
  • 164values changed, of 164 in both
  • 75 · 89rose · fell
  • 0unchanged

Rose most

Fell most

+ Angola+ American Samoa+ Guam+ Northern Mariana Islands+ United States Virgin Islands+ Samoa

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 2002.

  • The position is ours

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

  • Nothing missing

    Every one of the 170 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 (2002). Trade (% of GDP), 2002 [data set], describing 2002. As held by Nations Inquiry, https://nationsinquiry.com/datasets/trade-to-gdp/2002

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07Questions

Trade (% of GDP), 2002: questions and answers

Which country has the highest trade openness in Trade (% of GDP), 2002?

Singapore, at 349.746, of the 170 countries in the file.

What year does Trade (% of GDP), 2002 describe?

2002.

How many countries does Trade (% of GDP), 2002 cover?

170.

Where can I download Trade (% of GDP), 2002?

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), 2002 the newest?

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

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