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Trade (% of GDP), 2021

2021, as World Bank Group’s 2026 release gives it · stored as published, never rewritten

Trade (% of GDP), 2021 covers 183 countries. Hong Kong is highest, at 402.4597; Sudan is lowest, at 4.1275. The middle country reads 77.4551. Against 2020, 183 values changed (154 up, 29 down), 1 left.

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Trade (% of GDP) · Data for 2021

HighestHong Kong

402.4597

LowestSudan

4.1275

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), 2021, 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), 2021: every country, as published by World Bank Group.
derived
1Hong KongHKGEastern Asia402.4597
2LuxembourgLUXWestern Europe397.5062
3San MarinoSMRSouthern Europe342.4702
4SingaporeSGPSouth-eastern Asia326.5333
5DjiboutiDJIEastern Africa263.4777
6IrelandIRLNorthern Europe231.0324
7MaltaMLTSouthern Europe220.0723
8VietnamVNMSouth-eastern Asia186.6758
9SeychellesSYCEastern Africa183.7708
10United Arab EmiratesAREWestern Asia182.9094
11SlovakiaSVKEastern Europe181.9795
12United States Virgin IslandsVIRCaribbean180.2973
13BelgiumBELWestern Europe177.3819
14CyprusCYPWestern Asia176.8277
15MacauMACEastern Asia171.3160
16LibyaLBYNorthern Africa164.2841
17NetherlandsNLDWestern Europe163.1548
18SloveniaSVNSouthern Europe161.7887
19EstoniaESTNorthern Europe160.4719
20HungaryHUNEastern Europe159.1875
21LithuaniaLTUNorthern Europe154.7263
22BahrainBHRWestern Asia153.7993
23BruneiBRNSouth-eastern Asia147.1231
24North MacedoniaMKDSouthern Europe146.7214
25CambodiaKHMSouth-eastern Asia146.1798

02In 2021

At either end

The 5 countries at each end of the headline.

Highest

  1. 1Hong Kong402.4597
  2. 2Luxembourg397.5062
  3. 3San Marino342.4702
  4. 4Singapore326.5333
  5. 5Djibouti263.4777

Lowest

  1. 183Sudan4.1275
  2. 182Ethiopia24.3451
  3. 181United States25.2327
  4. 180Pakistan27.0304
  5. 179Bangladesh27.7240

Neither end is better. The values describe a shape, not a score. The middle country reads 77.4551. “Shared” marks a value another country also holds.

032020 → 2021

Since 2020

What changed between 2020 and this one: who joined or left, and how far the headline moved.

  • +0 / −1countries joined / left
  • 183values changed, of 183 in both
  • 154 · 29rose · fell
  • 0unchanged

Rose most

Fell most

  • Ireland258.7804 → 231.0324−27.7481
  • Palau104.4307 → 79.5791−24.8516
  • Malta242.3612 → 220.0723−22.2889
  • Samoa77.4848 → 59.7698−17.7150
  • American Samoa154.3689 → 136.8000−17.5689
− Cayman Islands

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 2021.

  • 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 (2021). Trade (% of GDP), 2021 [data set], describing 2021. As held by Nations Inquiry, https://nationsinquiry.com/datasets/trade-to-gdp/2021

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07Questions

Trade (% of GDP), 2021: questions and answers

Which country has the highest trade openness in Trade (% of GDP), 2021?

Hong Kong, at 402.4597, of the 183 countries in the file.

What year does Trade (% of GDP), 2021 describe?

2021.

How many countries does Trade (% of GDP), 2021 cover?

183.

Where can I download Trade (% of GDP), 2021?

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), 2021 the newest?

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

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