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Trade (% of GDP), 2019

2019, as World Bank Group’s 2026 release gives it · stored as published, never rewritten

Trade (% of GDP), 2019 covers 183 countries. Luxembourg is highest, at 382.661; Cuba is lowest, at 22.821. The middle country reads 78.415. Against 2018, 183 values changed (71 up, 112 down), 2 left.

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Trade (% of GDP) · Data for 2019

HighestLuxembourg

382.661

LowestCuba

22.821

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), 2019, 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 183 countries · select a heading to sort

Trade (% of GDP), 2019: every country, as published by World Bank Group.
derived
1LuxembourgLUXWestern Europe382.661
2Hong KongHKGEastern Asia353.744
3SingaporeSGPSouth-eastern Asia324.270
4DjiboutiDJIEastern Africa320.939
5San MarinoSMRSouthern Europe307.265
6IrelandIRLNorthern Europe257.653
7MaltaMLTSouthern Europe233.070
8SlovakiaSVKEastern Europe183.723
9SeychellesSYCEastern Africa173.408
10BelgiumBELWestern Europe165.465
11VietnamVNMSouth-eastern Asia164.704
12United Arab EmiratesAREWestern Asia163.822
13NetherlandsNLDWestern Europe160.677
14SloveniaSVNSouthern Europe160.044
15HungaryHUNEastern Europe159.926
16American SamoaASMPolynesia156.569
17NauruNRUMicronesia155.907
18United States Virgin IslandsVIRCaribbean155.423
19Marshall IslandsMHLMicronesia153.008
20CyprusCYPWestern Asia150.506
21LithuaniaLTUNorthern Europe148.375
22LesothoLSOSouthern Africa140.517
23EstoniaESTNorthern Europe140.352
24North MacedoniaMKDSouthern Europe138.576
25CzechiaCZEEastern Europe138.155

02In 2019

At either end

The 5 countries at each end of the headline.

Highest

  1. 1Luxembourg382.661
  2. 2Hong Kong353.744
  3. 3Singapore324.270
  4. 4Djibouti320.939
  5. 5San Marino307.265

Lowest

  1. 183Cuba22.821
  2. 182Sudan26.120
  3. 181United States26.258
  4. 180Ethiopia28.815
  5. 179Brazil28.890

Neither end is better. The values describe a shape, not a score. The middle country reads 78.415. “Shared” marks a value another country also holds.

032018 → 2019

Since 2018

What changed between 2018 and this one: who joined or left, and how far the headline moved.

  • +0 / −2countries joined / left
  • 183values changed, of 183 in both
  • 71 · 112rose · fell
  • 0unchanged

Rose most

Fell most

− Curaçao− Yemen

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 2019.

  • The position is ours

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

  • Nothing missing

    Every one of the 183 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 (2019). Trade (% of GDP), 2019 [data set], describing 2019. As held by Nations Inquiry, https://nationsinquiry.com/datasets/trade-to-gdp/2019

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07Questions

Trade (% of GDP), 2019: questions and answers

Which country has the highest trade openness in Trade (% of GDP), 2019?

Luxembourg, at 382.661, of the 183 countries in the file.

What year does Trade (% of GDP), 2019 describe?

2019.

How many countries does Trade (% of GDP), 2019 cover?

183.

Where can I download Trade (% of GDP), 2019?

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), 2019 the newest?

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

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