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Trade (% of GDP), 2023

2023, as World Bank Group’s 2026 release gives it · stored as published, never rewritten

Trade (% of GDP), 2023 covers 176 countries. Luxembourg is highest, at 402.567; Sudan is lowest, at 2.474. The middle country reads 82.305. Against 2022, 176 values changed (40 up, 136 down), 7 left.

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Trade (% of GDP) · Data for 2023

HighestLuxembourg

402.567

LowestSudan

2.474

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), 2023, 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 176 countries · select a heading to sort

Trade (% of GDP), 2023: every country, as published by World Bank Group.
derived
1LuxembourgLUXWestern Europe402.567
2Hong KongHKGEastern Asia353.195
3San MarinoSMRSouthern Europe340.983
4SingaporeSGPSouth-eastern Asia323.701
5DjiboutiDJIEastern Africa285.902
6IrelandIRLNorthern Europe239.650
7MaltaMLTSouthern Europe221.133
8United Arab EmiratesAREWestern Asia199.045
9CyprusCYPWestern Asia190.741
10SeychellesSYCEastern Africa183.842
11SlovakiaSVKEastern Europe181.391
12BelgiumBELWestern Europe165.987
13NetherlandsNLDWestern Europe165.030
14VietnamVNMSouth-eastern Asia164.996
15LibyaLBYNorthern Africa161.070
16SloveniaSVNSouthern Europe160.160
17HungaryHUNEastern Europe158.619
18BahrainBHRWestern Asia157.448
19EstoniaESTNorthern Europe154.593
20ArubaABWCaribbean153.719
21MaldivesMDVSouthern Asia149.350
22LithuaniaLTUNorthern Europe147.991
23North MacedoniaMKDSouthern Europe147.794
24MauritiusMUSEastern Africa147.321
25MacauMACEastern Asia145.874

02In 2023

At either end

The 5 countries at each end of the headline.

Highest

  1. 1Luxembourg402.567
  2. 2Hong Kong353.195
  3. 3San Marino340.983
  4. 4Singapore323.701
  5. 5Djibouti285.902

Lowest

  1. 176Sudan2.474
  2. 175Ethiopia20.598
  3. 174United States24.929
  4. 173Haiti25.248
  5. 172Argentina26.677

Neither end is better. The values describe a shape, not a score. The middle country reads 82.305. “Shared” marks a value another country also holds.

032022 → 2023

Since 2022

What changed between 2022 and this one: who joined or left, and how far the headline moved.

  • +0 / −7countries joined / left
  • 176values changed, of 176 in both
  • 40 · 136rose · fell
  • 0unchanged

Rose most

Fell most

− American Samoa− Antigua and Barbuda− Guam− Northern Mariana Islands− Qatar− Syria− United States Virgin 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 2023.

  • The position is ours

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

  • Nothing missing

    Every one of the 176 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 (2023). Trade (% of GDP), 2023 [data set], describing 2023. As held by Nations Inquiry, https://nationsinquiry.com/datasets/trade-to-gdp/2023

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07Questions

Trade (% of GDP), 2023: questions and answers

Which country has the highest trade openness in Trade (% of GDP), 2023?

Luxembourg, at 402.567, of the 176 countries in the file.

What year does Trade (% of GDP), 2023 describe?

2023.

How many countries does Trade (% of GDP), 2023 cover?

176.

Where can I download Trade (% of GDP), 2023?

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), 2023 the newest?

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

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