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Trade (% of GDP), 2005

2005, as World Bank Group’s 2026 release gives it · stored as published, never rewritten

Trade (% of GDP), 2005 covers 174 countries. United States Virgin Islands is highest, at 503.207; United States is lowest, at 25.639. The middle country reads 77.997. Against 2004, 170 values changed (119 up, 51 down), 4 countries joined, 1 left.

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Trade (% of GDP) · Data for 2005

HighestUnited States Virgin Islands

503.207

LowestUnited States

25.639

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), 2005, 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 174 countries · select a heading to sort

Trade (% of GDP), 2005: every country, as published by World Bank Group.
derived
1United States Virgin IslandsVIRCaribbean503.207
2SingaporeSGPSouth-eastern Asia420.431
3Hong KongHKGEastern Asia342.689
4LuxembourgLUXWestern Europe284.077
5American SamoaASMPolynesia223.200
6MalaysiaMYSSouth-eastern Asia203.855
7GuyanaGUYSouth America194.351
8Northern Mariana IslandsMNPMicronesia174.552
9SeychellesSYCEastern Africa171.102
10MaltaMLTSouthern Europe157.548
11SlovakiaSVKEastern Europe148.705
12BahrainBHRWestern Asia148.314
13IrelandIRLNorthern Europe148.176
14JordanJORWestern Asia146.909
15ArubaABWCaribbean145.050
16BelgiumBELWestern Europe144.529
17MoldovaMDAEastern Europe143.024
18PanamaPANCentral America139.211
19ThailandTHASouth-eastern Asia137.854
20HondurasHNDCentral America136.490
21MacauMACEastern Asia136.372
22EstoniaESTNorthern Europe135.913
23CuraçaoCUWCaribbean134.911
24CambodiaKHMSouth-eastern Asia133.552
25Equatorial GuineaGNQMiddle Africa131.024

02In 2005

At either end

The 5 countries at each end of the headline.

Highest

  1. 1United States Virgin Islands503.207
  2. 2Singapore420.431
  3. 3Hong Kong342.689
  4. 4Luxembourg284.077
  5. 5American Samoa223.200

Lowest

  1. 174United States25.639
  2. 173Japan25.991
  3. 172Brazil27.087
  4. 171Pakistan29.878
  5. 170Burkina Faso34.172

Neither end is better. The values describe a shape, not a score. The middle country reads 77.997. “Shared” marks a value another country also holds.

032004 → 2005

Since 2004

What changed between 2004 and this one: who joined or left, and how far the headline moved.

  • +4 / −1countries joined / left
  • 170values changed, of 170 in both
  • 119 · 51rose · fell
  • 0unchanged

Rose most

Fell most

+ Curaçao+ Equatorial Guinea+ Palau+ French Polynesia− Papua New Guinea

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 2005.

  • The position is ours

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

  • Nothing missing

    Every one of the 174 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 (2005). Trade (% of GDP), 2005 [data set], describing 2005. As held by Nations Inquiry, https://nationsinquiry.com/datasets/trade-to-gdp/2005

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07Questions

Trade (% of GDP), 2005: questions and answers

Which country has the highest trade openness in Trade (% of GDP), 2005?

United States Virgin Islands, at 503.207, of the 174 countries in the file.

What year does Trade (% of GDP), 2005 describe?

2005.

How many countries does Trade (% of GDP), 2005 cover?

174.

Where can I download Trade (% of GDP), 2005?

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), 2005 the newest?

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

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