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UNCTAD · Digitally-Deliverable Services Exports
Digitally-deliverable services exports by country
What share of a country's services exports could be delivered over a network?
Ireland placed first of the 170 countries compared in 2024, at 87.148%, and Gambia last, at 0.377%. In the middle country the figure was 25.416%. Among the 153 countries measured in every edition since 2010, the middle one moved from 20.421% to 27.172%.
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Digitally-deliverable services exports · 2024
Key statistic · Digital & Technology
Highest of 170Ireland
87.148%012024 · position · derived
Who leads
The three countries at the highest end of 170 compared, the three at the other end, and the first on each continent.
1Photo: derivative work: Jjtkk · CC BY-SA 2.0, greyscale
2Photo: Michal Osmenda from Brussels, Belgium · CC BY-SA 2.0, greyscale
3Photo: Yaniv Ben-Arie derivative work: ויקיג'אנקי · CC BY-SA 2.0, greyscale
02Every measured country
Digitally-deliverable services exports on a map
Each country is shaded by its value, in five groups holding the same number of countries. Hover a country for its value, or select it to open its profile. Below the map, each continent’s middle country.
Darker is a higher value — the better end.
- 0.377–7.610%
- 8.211–18.269%
- 18.273–31.115%
- 31.652–49.027%
- 50.471–87.148%
- No reading in 2024 (29 measured in an earlier edition)
- Europe
44.444%
the middle country, of 39 measured · 49 members
Ireland87.148%
Albania12.129%Highest and lowest reading in Europe.
- Asia
24.674%
the middle country, of 43 measured · 52 members
Israel82.135%
Maldives0.932%Highest and lowest reading in Asia.
- Africa
23.753%
the middle country, of 38 measured · 55 members
Guinea79.366%
Gambia0.377%Highest and lowest reading in Africa.
- Americas
16.905%
the middle country, of 38 measured · 48 members
United States65.922%
Paraguay1.352%Highest and lowest reading in Americas.
- Oceania
11.948%
the middle country, of 12 measured · 21 members
Australia29.332%
Palau0.391%Highest and lowest reading in Oceania.
- Every region
22 sub-regions, highest middle country first
- Western Europe
60.648%
the middle country, of 7 measured · 9 members
Luxembourg85.393%
Austria41.279%Highest and lowest reading in Western Europe.
- Northern Europe
50.534%
the middle country, of 10 measured · 13 members
Ireland87.148%
Iceland21.391%Highest and lowest reading in Northern Europe.
- Eastern Asia
49.027%
the middle country, of 7 measured · 8 members
Japan52.903%
Macau8.894%Highest and lowest reading in Eastern Asia.
- Eastern Europe
45.553%
the middle country, of 10 measured · 10 members
Ukraine57.721%
Russia24.253%Highest and lowest reading in Eastern Europe.
- Western Africa
33.835%
the middle country, of 11 measured · 16 members
Guinea79.366%Gambia0.377%Highest and lowest reading in Western Africa.
- Middle Africa
29.976%
the middle country, of 7 measured · 9 members
Republic of the Congo37.943%
DR Congo2.360%Highest and lowest reading in Middle Africa.
- South America
26.879%
the middle country, of 11 measured · 12 members
Brazil63.260%Paraguay1.352%Highest and lowest reading in South America.
- Southern Europe
24.445%
the middle country, of 12 measured · 17 members
Serbia57.649%Albania12.129%Highest and lowest reading in Southern Europe.
- Western Asia
23.928%
the middle country, of 14 measured · 19 members
Israel82.135%
Jordan3.195%Highest and lowest reading in Western Asia.
- Southern Asia
23.620%
the middle country, of 8 measured · 9 members
India78.006%Maldives0.932%Highest and lowest reading in Southern Asia.
- Central America
20.398%
the middle country, of 8 measured · 8 members
Costa Rica57.158%
El Salvador13.793%Highest and lowest reading in Central America.
- South-eastern Asia
18.108%
the middle country, of 11 measured · 11 members
Singapore57.410%
Brunei4.659%Highest and lowest reading in South-eastern Asia.
- Eastern Africa
12.546%
the middle country, of 13 measured · 19 members
Mauritius66.724%
Mozambique2.518%Highest and lowest reading in Eastern Africa.
- Caribbean
6.547%
the middle country, of 16 measured · 24 members
Dominica29.340%
Saint Lucia1.991%Highest and lowest reading in Caribbean.
- Australia and New Zealand
2 of 2 measured — too few for a middle: Australia, New Zealand.
Australia29.332%
New Zealand26.681%Highest and lowest reading in Australia and New Zealand.
- Central Asia
3 of 5 measured — too few for a middle: Kazakhstan, Tajikistan, Uzbekistan.
Kazakhstan26.740%
Uzbekistan16.220%Highest and lowest reading in Central Asia.
- Melanesia
4 of 5 measured — too few for a middle: Fiji, Papua New Guinea, Solomon Islands, Vanuatu.
Papua New Guinea18.269%
Fiji1.742%Highest and lowest reading in Melanesia.
- Micronesia
3 of 7 measured — too few for a middle: Kiribati, Nauru, Palau.
Nauru11.444%Palau0.391%Highest and lowest reading in Micronesia.
- Northern Africa
4 of 6 measured — too few for a middle: Algeria, Egypt, Morocco, Tunisia.
Morocco24.968%
Tunisia10.658%Highest and lowest reading in Northern Africa.
- Northern America
3 of 4 measured — too few for a middle: Bermuda, Canada, United States.
United States65.922%
Canada54.368%Highest and lowest reading in Northern America.
- Polynesia
3 of 7 measured — too few for a middle: Samoa, Tonga, Tuvalu.
Samoa15.195%
Tuvalu3.619%Highest and lowest reading in Polynesia.
- Southern Africa
3 of 5 measured — too few for a middle: Lesotho, Namibia, South Africa.
South Africa52.923%
Lesotho6.570%Highest and lowest reading in Southern Africa.
03The whole field at once
The spread
170 countries, one dot each, on one scale — further right is a higher value. Half the countries are above 25.416%; a quarter are above 44.793%, and a quarter below 11.799%. The bar in each row marks that continent’s middle country.
04All 199 ever measured
Every country
In order, highest value first. “=” marks a position shared with another country. UN Trade and Development (UNCTAD) ranks nobody on this measure; the position is derived here by ordering the published values. It is a share of services exports, not a size. A country that earns most of its services income from tourism and transport reads low however digital its economy is, and a small financial centre reads high on one industry. It also counts services that could be delivered digitally, whether or not they were. A few early readings exceed 100%, where UNCTAD's digitally-deliverable total came out larger than its own services total.
Showing 25 of 199 countries
Values for 2024. The change column compares 2024 with 2023 only; the sparkline covers the recent editions.
052010–2024 · 15 editions
Over time
Each point is one year from 2010. The newest year is still being filled in by UNCTAD, with fewer economies and more estimates than the year before it.
- the middle country
- the middle half of countries
- the middle of the 153 countries measured every time
- each continent’s middle country
The same, year by year
| Year | Countries | Middle country | Middle half | Measured every time |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 170 | 25.416% | 11.799% – 44.793% | 27.172% |
| 2023 | 184 | 26.025% | 11.080% – 44.401% | 27.199% |
| 2022 | 187 | 26.036% | 11.426% – 45.005% | 28.249% |
| 2021 | 191 | 29.804% | 14.081% – 51.120% | 31.799% |
| 2020 | 194 | 29.472% | 15.576% – 49.429% | 30.909% |
| 2019 | 192 | 18.356% | 8.572% – 37.240% | 21.376% |
| 2018 | 191 | 20.087% | 7.989% – 36.867% | 21.667% |
| 2017 | 189 | 18.319% | 9.188% – 36.701% | 20.448% |
| 2016 | 194 | 18.151% | 9.173% – 37.147% | 22.370% |
| 2015 | 194 | 19.566% | 9.197% – 36.835% | 22.606% |
| 2014 | 193 | 20.996% | 9.606% – 34.885% | 23.148% |
| 2013 | 192 | 20.502% | 9.640% – 37.373% | 22.577% |
| 2012 | 188 | 19.562% | 10.250% – 36.976% | 22.847% |
| 2011 | 189 | 19.205% | 8.930% – 35.538% | 19.692% |
| 2010 | 187 | 19.882% | 9.238% – 33.535% | 20.421% |
062023 → 2024
Who rose and fell
The biggest changes in value between the two newest editions. Places are shown second, because they also move when other countries do.
Improved most
before → after- Mauritius40.990% → 66.724% · 55th → 11th+25.734
- Guinea53.766% → 79.366% · 30th → 4th+25.600
Tajikistan9.487% → 24.674% · 145th → 87th+15.188
Zambia7.189% → 20.020% · 156th → 99th+12.831
Haiti12.376% → 23.953% · 133rd → 89th+11.578
169 countries were measured in both 2023 and 2024. The field changed from 184 to 170 countries, so a place can move for reasons that have nothing to do with the country itself.
07Across every edition
Digitally-deliverable services exports in records
The extremes of the statistic. A record reached by more than one country names none of them.
Highest reading on record
147.074%
Digitally-deliverable services exports (% of services exports)
Lowest reading on record
0.216%
Digitally-deliverable services exports (% of services exports)
Biggest improvement between editions
+62.413
7.685% → 70.098%
Biggest decline between editions
−81.446
147.074% → 65.628%
Most improved since first measured
+46.145
17.437% → 63.583%
At the top most often
4 of 15
editions, alone at the first-listed end
08The measure
About digitally-deliverable services exports
Digitally-deliverable services are the services that can be sold across a border over a network — finance and insurance, software and IT, licensing of intellectual property, research, consulting, engineering and audiovisual work. This is their share of everything a country earns from exporting services: a read on how far its services trade has moved beyond tourism and transport.
What the number is: Digitally-deliverable services exports (% of services exports).
What it does not measure
It is a share of services exports, not their size, and it counts services that could be delivered digitally whether or not they actually were.
09Where it fits
Connections
Its part in the Country Index, the statistics whose values line up most closely with it across countries, and others on the same subject.
In the Country Index
A key statistic for Digital & Technology
“How much of what a country sells abroad in services is delivered over networks — software, finance, telecoms and professional services — its place in the world’s digital trade.”
- Edition used
- 2024 (data 2024)
- Countries
- 170
- Licence
- CC BY 3.0 IGO
Moves with
Where digitally-deliverable services exports is higher, these tend to be higher too.
- ICT Services ExportsUNCTAD · 117 countries in commonρ 0.62
- Government AI Readiness IndexKeyOxford Insights · 161 countries in commonρ 0.60
- Economic Complexity IndexKeyGrowth Lab at Harvard University · 128 countries in commonρ 0.56
Moves against
Where digitally-deliverable services exports is higher, these tend to be lower.
- Informal Employment RateILO · 84 countries in commonρ −0.53
- Climate Vulnerability (ND-GAIN)KeyNotre Dame Global Adaptation Initiative (ND-GAIN), University of Notre Dame · 159 countries in commonρ −0.50
- Prevalence of Severe Food InsecurityKeyFAO · 120 countries in commonρ −0.47
Rank correlation (ρ, from −1 to 1) across countries, on each statistic’s newest edition, out of 184 statistics sharing at least 80 countries with this one. Two statistics that move together do not cause each other.
10Keep reading
Explore further
11Questions
Digitally-deliverable services exports: questions and answers
Which country has the highest digitally-deliverable services exports?
Ireland, at 87.148%, among the 170 countries compared in 2024.
Which country has the lowest digitally-deliverable services exports?
Gambia, at 0.377%, among the 170 countries compared in 2024.
How many countries does the Digitally-Deliverable Services Exports cover?
170 in 2024, and 199 at least once across all editions. The number measured varies from 170 to 194 between editions.
What is the world average digitally-deliverable services exports?
This site does not calculate a world average, which would depend on how countries are weighted. In the middle country of the 170 compared in 2024, the figure was 25.416%.
Is this UN Trade and Development (UNCTAD)’s own ranking?
No. UN Trade and Development (UNCTAD) publishes the values but ranks nobody; the position on this page is derived by Nations Inquiry by ordering the published values, and equal values share a position.
How often is the Digitally-Deliverable Services Exports published?
This site holds 15 editions, describing 2010 to 2024.
Where does the data come from, and can I download it?
From UN Trade and Development (UNCTAD), under CC BY 3.0 IGO. Read from UNCTAD's own US.DigitallyDeliverableServices bulk file on UNCTADstat. UNCTAD's regional and group totals are left out; the US$ amount is kept beside the share, and UNCTAD's "Estimated" footnote travels with every reading it estimated. Every edition is on this site’s Datasets pages as a full table, and downloads as a CSV file with every value unrounded.
12Method
Sources, method and citation
Source
Digitally-Deliverable Services Exports — UN Trade and Development (UNCTAD)
Read from UNCTAD's own US.DigitallyDeliverableServices bulk file on UNCTADstat. UNCTAD's regional and group totals are left out; the US$ amount is kept beside the share, and UNCTAD's "Estimated" footnote travels with every reading it estimated.
Newest edition
Report year 2024Data year 2024
Cite the source as: UN Trade and Development (UNCTAD). Digitally-deliverable services: exports and imports, annual. Geneva: UNCTAD Data Hub.
Licence: CC BY 3.0 IGO, checked 2026-09-26.
How this page reads the numbers
- UN Trade and Development (UNCTAD) ranks nobody on this measure. The position is derived by Nations Inquiry by ordering the published values; equal values share a position.
- Which end is better follows the publisher’s own reading of the measure.
- A country is named at an end only when it holds that value alone. Where several share it, the page says how many and names none first.
- Values are stored exactly as published and trimmed only for display. “The middle country” is the median of the countries measured, not a world average.
The file itself, column by column — where it came from, what each column holds, and every edition as a CSV — is on its dataset page.
Photographs
The countries at the top of this statistic, from their profiles: Wikimedia Commons, shown in greyscale, each used under the licence named.
- Ireland — derivative work: Jjtkk, CC BY-SA 2.0
- Luxembourg — Michal Osmenda from Brussels, Belgium, CC BY-SA 2.0
- Israel — Yaniv Ben-Arie derivative work: ויקיג'אנקי, CC BY-SA 2.0
Cite this page
Nations Inquiry (2026). Digitally-deliverable services exports by country: Digitally-Deliverable Services Exports, data from UN Trade and Development (UNCTAD). https://nationsinquiry.com/statistics/digital-services-exports