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Trade (% of GDP), 2025

2025, as World Bank Group’s 2026 release gives it · stored as published, never rewritten

Trade (% of GDP), 2025 covers 138 countries. Hong Kong is highest, at 396.65; Sudan is lowest, at 2.38. The middle country reads 79.68. Against 2024, 138 values changed (53 up, 85 down), 34 left.

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Trade (% of GDP) · Data for 2025

HighestHong Kong

396.65

LowestSudan

2.38

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), 2025, 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 138 countries · select a heading to sort

Trade (% of GDP), 2025: every country, as published by World Bank Group.
derived
1Hong KongHKGEastern Asia396.65
2LuxembourgLUXWestern Europe349.89
3SingaporeSGPSouth-eastern Asia320.31
4IrelandIRLNorthern Europe239.96
5MaltaMLTSouthern Europe219.01
6DjiboutiDJIEastern Africa206.30
7VietnamVNMSouth-eastern Asia190.34
8CyprusCYPWestern Asia189.50
9SeychellesSYCEastern Africa172.29
10SlovakiaSVKEastern Europe170.34
11NauruNRUMicronesia165.44
12EstoniaESTNorthern Europe155.76
13LesothoLSOSouthern Africa153.98
14BelgiumBELWestern Europe152.92
15SloveniaSVNSouthern Europe151.92
16NetherlandsNLDWestern Europe150.12
17SwitzerlandCHEWestern Europe147.16
18LithuaniaLTUNorthern Europe142.11
19HungaryHUNEastern Europe140.78
20MauritiusMUSEastern Africa139.94
21MacauMACEastern Asia139.14
22ThailandTHASouth-eastern Asia138.41
23LibyaLBYNorthern Africa137.66
24MalaysiaMYSSouth-eastern Asia136.40
25CambodiaKHMSouth-eastern Asia136.09

02In 2025

At either end

The 5 countries at each end of the headline.

Highest

  1. 1Hong Kong396.65
  2. 2Luxembourg349.89
  3. 3Singapore320.31
  4. 4Ireland239.96
  5. 5Malta219.01

Lowest

  1. 138Sudan2.38
  2. 137Haiti15.89
  3. 136Venezuela25.01
  4. 135Pakistan27.19
  5. 134Bangladesh27.95

Neither end is better. The values describe a shape, not a score. The middle country reads 79.68. “Shared” marks a value another country also holds.

032024 → 2025

Since 2024

What changed between 2024 and this one: who joined or left, and how far the headline moved.

  • +0 / −34countries joined / left
  • 138values changed, of 138 in both
  • 53 · 85rose · fell
  • 0unchanged

Rose most

Fell most

− Aruba− Afghanistan− Bahrain− Bahamas− Belize− Bermuda− Bolivia− Bhutan− Cuba− Fiji− Faroe Islands− Ghana− Iraq− Japan− Kazakhstan− Kiribati− Kuwait− Lebanon− Maldives− New Caledonia− New Zealand− Oman− Panama− Palau− French Polynesia− Solomon Islands− Eswatini− Tajikistan− Timor-Leste− Tonga− United States− Vanuatu− Zambia− Zimbabwe

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 2025.

  • The position is ours

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

  • Nothing missing

    Every one of the 138 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 (2025). Trade (% of GDP), 2025 [data set], describing 2025. As held by Nations Inquiry, https://nationsinquiry.com/datasets/trade-to-gdp/2025

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07Questions

Trade (% of GDP), 2025: questions and answers

Which country has the highest trade openness in Trade (% of GDP), 2025?

Hong Kong, at 396.65, of the 138 countries in the file.

What year does Trade (% of GDP), 2025 describe?

2025.

How many countries does Trade (% of GDP), 2025 cover?

138.

Where can I download Trade (% of GDP), 2025?

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), 2025 the newest?

Yes, as of 2026-09-06, when it was read from the publisher.

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