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Trade (% of GDP), 2017

2017, as World Bank Group’s 2026 release gives it · stored as published, never rewritten

Trade (% of GDP), 2017 covers 185 countries. Hong Kong is highest, at 376.796; Sudan is lowest, at 17.831. The middle country reads 76.787. Against 2016, 183 values changed (122 up, 61 down), 2 countries joined, 1 left.

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Trade (% of GDP) · Data for 2017

HighestHong Kong

376.796

LowestSudan

17.831

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), 2017, 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 185 countries · select a heading to sort

Trade (% of GDP), 2017: every country, as published by World Bank Group.
derived
1Hong KongHKGEastern Asia376.796
2LuxembourgLUXWestern Europe353.794
3SingaporeSGPSouth-eastern Asia315.401
4San MarinoSMRSouthern Europe313.850
5DjiboutiDJIEastern Africa305.968
6IrelandIRLNorthern Europe233.304
7MaltaMLTSouthern Europe213.048
8SeychellesSYCEastern Africa197.442
9SlovakiaSVKEastern Europe186.645
10BelgiumBELWestern Europe166.904
11United Arab EmiratesAREWestern Asia165.477
12HungaryHUNEastern Europe165.033
13American SamoaASMPolynesia161.438
14VietnamVNMSouth-eastern Asia160.980
15NetherlandsNLDWestern Europe159.646
16SloveniaSVNSouthern Europe158.702
17United States Virgin IslandsVIRCaribbean157.696
18CyprusCYPWestern Asia148.013
19CzechiaCZEEastern Europe147.751
20LesothoLSOSouthern Africa146.367
21LithuaniaLTUNorthern Europe144.918
22EstoniaESTNorthern Europe144.636
23NauruNRUMicronesia142.069
24MaldivesMDVSouthern Asia141.912
25CuraçaoCUWCaribbean139.812

02In 2017

At either end

The 5 countries at each end of the headline.

Highest

  1. 1Hong Kong376.796
  2. 2Luxembourg353.794
  3. 3Singapore315.401
  4. 4San Marino313.850
  5. 5Djibouti305.968

Lowest

  1. 185Sudan17.831
  2. 184Brazil24.320
  3. 183Argentina25.290
  4. 182Pakistan25.472
  5. 181Cuba26.222

Neither end is better. The values describe a shape, not a score. The middle country reads 76.787. “Shared” marks a value another country also holds.

032016 → 2017

Since 2016

What changed between 2016 and this one: who joined or left, and how far the headline moved.

  • +2 / −1countries joined / left
  • 183values changed, of 183 in both
  • 122 · 61rose · fell
  • 0unchanged

Rose most

Fell most

+ Cayman Islands+ Malawi− Laos

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 2017.

  • The position is ours

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

  • Nothing missing

    Every one of the 185 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 (2017). Trade (% of GDP), 2017 [data set], describing 2017. As held by Nations Inquiry, https://nationsinquiry.com/datasets/trade-to-gdp/2017

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07Questions

Trade (% of GDP), 2017: questions and answers

Which country has the highest trade openness in Trade (% of GDP), 2017?

Hong Kong, at 376.796, of the 185 countries in the file.

What year does Trade (% of GDP), 2017 describe?

2017.

How many countries does Trade (% of GDP), 2017 cover?

185.

Where can I download Trade (% of GDP), 2017?

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), 2017 the newest?

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

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