Merchandise exports (current US$), per square kilometre by country

Merchandise exports (current US$) divided by Land area (sq. km), matched on country and year. Neither publisher issues this ratio as a series; it is computed here from both.

Countries reporting
207
Highest
663.30 million current US$ per square kilometre
Singapore
Lowest
0 current US$ per square kilometre
Tuvalu
Median
96,154 current US$ per square kilometre
Years covered
63
1961–2023
Data points
14,096

What the numbers show

Merchandise exports (current US$), per square kilometre is currently reported for 207 countries. The highest value is 663.30 million current US$ per square kilometre in Singapore; the lowest is 0 current US$ per square kilometre in Tuvalu.

The median across all reporting countries is 96,154 current US$ per square kilometre, and the mean is 7.14 million current US$ per square kilometre.

Over the past decade 148 countries rose and 55 fell. The largest increase was in Djibouti (up 3,887.5%), and the largest decrease in Yemen, Republic of (down 96.5%).

Merchandise exports (current US$), per square kilometre: full country ranking

#Country LatestYear 10-year changeTrend
1 Singapore 663.30 million current US$ per square kilometre 2023 up 14.3% volatile
2 Hong Kong Special Administrative Region, People's Republic of China 546.54 million current US$ per square kilometre 2023 up 7.2% volatile
3 Macao Special Administrative Region, People's Republic of China 50.12 million current US$ per square kilometre 2023 up 33.5% volatile
4 Bahrain, Kingdom of 31.02 million current US$ per square kilometre 2023 up 8.9% volatile
5 Netherlands 27.77 million current US$ per square kilometre 2023 up 39.3% volatile
6 Belgium 18.97 million current US$ per square kilometre 2023 up 22.8% rising
7 Malta 10.83 million current US$ per square kilometre 2023 down 4.7% volatile
8 Switzerland 10.63 million current US$ per square kilometre 2023 up 17.4% volatile
9 Qatar 8.51 million current US$ per square kilometre 2023 down 27.8% volatile
10 United Arab Emirates 8.03 million current US$ per square kilometre 2023 up 52.4% volatile
11 Luxembourg 6.68 million current US$ per square kilometre 2023 down 6.8% rising
12 Sint Maarten, Kingdom of the Netherlands 6.68 million current US$ per square kilometre 2023 up 38.4% rising
13 Korea 6.48 million current US$ per square kilometre 2023 up 12.8% volatile
14 Germany 4.87 million current US$ per square kilometre 2023 up 17.6% volatile
15 Kuwait 4.71 million current US$ per square kilometre 2023 down 27.0% volatile
16 Slovenia 3.63 million current US$ per square kilometre 2023 up 114.8% volatile
17 Czech Republic 3.31 million current US$ per square kilometre 2023 up 57.6% volatile
18 Denmark 3.23 million current US$ per square kilometre 2023 up 16.4% volatile
19 Ireland 3.02 million current US$ per square kilometre 2023 up 78.6% volatile
20 Israel 2.93 million current US$ per square kilometre 2023 down 4.9% volatile
21 Saint Martin 2.78 million current US$ per square kilometre 2021 up 9.4% rising
22 Austria 2.72 million current US$ per square kilometre 2023 up 27.9% volatile
23 Slovak Republic 2.44 million current US$ per square kilometre 2023 up 37.1% volatile
24 Italy 2.29 million current US$ per square kilometre 2023 up 30.6% volatile
25 United Kingdom 2.17 million current US$ per square kilometre 2023 down 4.0% volatile
26 Brunei Darussalam 2.13 million current US$ per square kilometre 2023 down 1.8% volatile
27 American Samoa 1.98 million current US$ per square kilometre 2023 up 1.8% volatile
28 Japan 1.97 million current US$ per square kilometre 2023 up 0.3% volatile
29 Nauru, Republic of 1.90 million current US$ per square kilometre 2023 up 72.7% volatile
30 Hungary 1.80 million current US$ per square kilometre 2023 up 51.7% volatile
31 Trinidad and Tobago 1.53 million current US$ per square kilometre 2023 down 58.0% volatile
32 Maldives 1.41 million current US$ per square kilometre 2023 up 28.0% volatile
33 Faroe Islands 1.34 million current US$ per square kilometre 2023 up 72.7% volatile
34 Poland, Republic of 1.25 million current US$ per square kilometre 2023 up 86.1% volatile
35 France 1.21 million current US$ per square kilometre 2023 up 12.1% volatile
36 Seychelles 1.18 million current US$ per square kilometre 2023 down 6.4% volatile
37 Mauritius 1.15 million current US$ per square kilometre 2023 down 20.0% volatile
38 Vietnam 1.13 million current US$ per square kilometre 2023 up 167.6% volatile
39 Curaçao, Kingdom of the Netherlands 1.11 million current US$ per square kilometre 2023 down 29.8% falling
40 Barbados 1.07 million current US$ per square kilometre 2023 up 0.9% volatile
41 Malaysia 952,564 current US$ per square kilometre 2023 up 37.1% volatile
42 Aruba, Kingdom of the Netherlands 927,778 current US$ per square kilometre 2023 down 40.1% volatile
43 Portugal 912,837 current US$ per square kilometre 2023 up 33.1% volatile
44 Spain 845,486 current US$ per square kilometre 2023 up 33.1% volatile
45 Lithuania, Republic of 686,597 current US$ per square kilometre 2023 up 32.0% volatile
45 Least developed countries 12,823 current US$ per square kilometre 2023 up 33.5% volatile
46 Thailand 557,995 current US$ per square kilometre 2023 up 24.8% volatile
47 Cyprus 547,727 current US$ per square kilometre 2023 up 150.7% volatile
48 Andorra, Principality of 536,170 current US$ per square kilometre 2023 up 165.3% volatile
49 Norway 490,320 current US$ per square kilometre 2023 up 14.7% volatile
50 Sweden 484,860 current US$ per square kilometre 2023 up 17.9% volatile
51 Estonia, Republic of 459,092 current US$ per square kilometre 2023 up 22.3% volatile
52 Croatia, Republic of 446,033 current US$ per square kilometre 2023 up 97.2% volatile
53 Bulgaria 441,968 current US$ per square kilometre 2023 up 62.2% volatile
54 Romania 437,270 current US$ per square kilometre 2023 up 52.8% volatile
55 Greece 427,874 current US$ per square kilometre 2023 up 52.6% volatile
56 Azerbaijan, Republic of 410,151 current US$ per square kilometre 2023 up 6.9% volatile
57 Bermuda 407,407 current US$ per square kilometre 2023 up 83.3% falling
58 Lebanon 404,594 current US$ per square kilometre 2023 down 19.9% volatile
59 Costa Rica 372,601 current US$ per square kilometre 2023 up 65.7% volatile
60 Serbia, Republic of 367,880 current US$ per square kilometre 2023 up 120.2% rising
61 Latvia, Republic of 363,105 current US$ per square kilometre 2023 up 56.2% volatile
62 China, People's Republic of 359,924 current US$ per square kilometre 2023 up 53.0% volatile
63 North Macedonia, Republic of 356,820 current US$ per square kilometre 2023 up 109.3% volatile
64 Marshall Islands, Republic of the 355,556 current US$ per square kilometre 2023 down 1.5% volatile
65 Bangladesh 340,337 current US$ per square kilometre 2023 up 52.2% volatile
66 Türkiye 332,143 current US$ per square kilometre 2023 up 58.3% volatile
67 El Salvador 313,610 current US$ per square kilometre 2023 up 18.3% volatile
68 Mexico 305,050 current US$ per square kilometre 2023 up 56.0% volatile
69 Armenia, Republic of 303,269 current US$ per square kilometre 2023 up 483.4% volatile
70 Finland 271,618 current US$ per square kilometre 2023 up 10.9% volatile
71 Dominican Republic 268,683 current US$ per square kilometre 2023 up 34.5% volatile
72 Philippines 246,594 current US$ per square kilometre 2023 up 29.7% volatile
73 Cayman Islands 229,167 current US$ per square kilometre 2023 up 7.8% rising
74 Iraq 228,386 current US$ per square kilometre 2023 up 9.5% volatile
75 Panama 225,640 current US$ per square kilometre 2023 up 13.9% volatile
76 United States 220,615 current US$ per square kilometre 2023 up 27.8% volatile
77 Djibouti 206,428 current US$ per square kilometre 2023 up 3,887.5% volatile
78 Belarus, Republic of 196,273 current US$ per square kilometre 2023 up 6.0% volatile
79 Sri Lanka 192,548 current US$ per square kilometre 2023 up 18.3% volatile
80 Oman 190,666 current US$ per square kilometre 2023 up 6.3% volatile
81 Jamaica 184,857 current US$ per square kilometre 2023 up 27.6% volatile
82 Bosnia and Herzegovina 180,312 current US$ per square kilometre 2023 up 62.3% volatile
83 Albania 159,635 current US$ per square kilometre 2023 up 87.0% volatile
84 New Zealand 157,225 current US$ per square kilometre 2023 up 5.0% volatile
85 Micronesia, Federated States of 151,429 current US$ per square kilometre 2023 up 202.9% volatile
86 Saudi Arabia 148,867 current US$ per square kilometre 2023 down 14.9% volatile
87 India 145,150 current US$ per square kilometre 2023 up 37.1% volatile
88 Jordan 141,361 current US$ per square kilometre 2023 up 58.5% volatile
89 Indonesia 136,776 current US$ per square kilometre 2023 up 40.7% volatile
90 Grenada 135,294 current US$ per square kilometre 2023 up 24.3% volatile
91 Guatemala 132,503 current US$ per square kilometre 2023 up 41.6% volatile
92 Cambodia 131,351 current US$ per square kilometre 2023 up 247.8% volatile
93 St. Lucia 131,148 current US$ per square kilometre 2023 down 54.0% volatile
94 Tunisia 128,637 current US$ per square kilometre 2023 up 17.1% volatile
95 Ecuador 125,326 current US$ per square kilometre 2023 up 25.3% volatile
96 Chile 125,159 current US$ per square kilometre 2023 up 21.2% volatile
97 Moldova, Republic of 122,958 current US$ per square kilometre 2023 up 66.5% volatile
98 Eswatini, Kingdom of 121,860 current US$ per square kilometre 2023 up 10.6% volatile
99 New Caledonia 115,755 current US$ per square kilometre 2023 up 73.0% volatile
100 Equatorial Guinea, Republic of 112,549 current US$ per square kilometre 2023 down 77.5% volatile
101 St. Vincent and the Grenadines 105,128 current US$ per square kilometre 2023 down 16.3% volatile
102 Honduras 101,734 current US$ per square kilometre 2023 up 45.3% volatile
103 Rwanda 99,960 current US$ per square kilometre 2023 up 250.8% volatile
104 St. Kitts and Nevis 96,154 current US$ per square kilometre 2023 down 55.4% volatile
105 Morocco 93,305 current US$ per square kilometre 2023 up 89.5% volatile
106 South Africa 91,382 current US$ per square kilometre 2023 up 15.3% volatile
107 Georgia 87,581 current US$ per square kilometre 2023 up 109.1% volatile
108 Guam 81,482 current US$ per square kilometre 2023 down 2.2% volatile
109 Bahamas, The 73,526 current US$ per square kilometre 2023 down 9.2% volatile
110 Ghana 73,409 current US$ per square kilometre 2023 up 21.5% volatile
111 Antigua and Barbuda 70,454 current US$ per square kilometre 2023 down 55.1% volatile
112 French Polynesia 70,297 current US$ per square kilometre 2023 up 61.6% volatile
113 Iceland 67,331 current US$ per square kilometre 2023 up 35.1% volatile
114 Ukraine 64,869 current US$ per square kilometre 2023 down 41.6% volatile
115 Canada 64,865 current US$ per square kilometre 2023 up 26.9% volatile
116 Guyana 62,565 current US$ per square kilometre 2023 up 795.7% volatile
117 Nicaragua 61,310 current US$ per square kilometre 2023 up 53.9% volatile
118 Nigeria 60,588 current US$ per square kilometre 2023 down 39.1% volatile
119 Iran, Islamic Republic of 60,004 current US$ per square kilometre 2023 up 7.7% volatile
120 Fiji, Republic of 58,456 current US$ per square kilometre 2023 down 3.6% volatile
121 Côte d'Ivoire 57,704 current US$ per square kilometre 2023 up 52.3% volatile
122 Montenegro 54,201 current US$ per square kilometre 2023 up 46.4% rising
123 Uruguay 52,680 current US$ per square kilometre 2023 up 1.7% volatile
124 Peru 50,559 current US$ per square kilometre 2023 up 52.0% volatile
125 Gabon 49,268 current US$ per square kilometre 2023 down 2.6% volatile
126 Australia 48,285 current US$ per square kilometre 2023 up 46.6% volatile
127 Colombia 44,655 current US$ per square kilometre 2023 down 15.8% volatile
128 Uzbekistan, Republic of 43,638 current US$ per square kilometre 2023 up 58.5% volatile
129 Egypt, Arab Republic of 42,273 current US$ per square kilometre 2023 up 45.0% volatile
130 Brazil 40,642 current US$ per square kilometre 2023 up 46.1% volatile
131 Guinea 37,360 current US$ per square kilometre 2023 up 386.7% volatile
132 Pakistan 36,932 current US$ per square kilometre 2023 up 13.3% volatile
133 Lao People's Democratic Republic 36,265 current US$ per square kilometre 2023 up 269.7% volatile
134 Benin 35,917 current US$ per square kilometre 2023 up 104.3% volatile
135 Haiti 34,688 current US$ per square kilometre 2023 up 8.0% volatile
136 Turkmenistan 34,397 current US$ per square kilometre 2023 down 3.8% volatile
137 Gambia, The 32,213 current US$ per square kilometre 2023 up 143.3% volatile
138 Angola 31,688 current US$ per square kilometre 2023 down 42.1% volatile
139 Uganda 31,443 current US$ per square kilometre 2023 up 161.8% volatile
140 Paraguay 30,027 current US$ per square kilometre 2023 up 26.2% volatile
141 Dominica 29,333 current US$ per square kilometre 2023 down 37.1% volatile
142 Kazakhstan, Republic of 29,090 current US$ per square kilometre 2023 down 7.3% volatile
143 Togo 28,902 current US$ per square kilometre 2023 up 3.3% volatile
144 Papua New Guinea 28,333 current US$ per square kilometre 2023 up 115.6% volatile
145 Congo, Republic of 27,716 current US$ per square kilometre 2023 down 9.5% volatile
146 Senegal 27,616 current US$ per square kilometre 2023 up 99.8% volatile
147 Lesotho, Kingdom of 27,174 current US$ per square kilometre 2023 down 2.6% volatile
148 Russian Federation 25,936 current US$ per square kilometre 2023 down 18.6% volatile
149 São Tomé and Príncipe, Democratic Republic of 25,000 current US$ per square kilometre 2023 up 84.6% volatile
150 Argentina 24,478 current US$ per square kilometre 2023 down 11.8% volatile
151 Kiribati 23,457 current US$ per square kilometre 2023 up 171.4% volatile
152 Algeria 23,325 current US$ per square kilometre 2023 down 14.5% volatile
153 Myanmar 22,604 current US$ per square kilometre 2023 up 31.4% volatile
154 Belize 21,394 current US$ per square kilometre 2023 down 19.9% volatile
155 Libya 18,800 current US$ per square kilometre 2023 down 33.2% volatile
156 Zimbabwe 18,676 current US$ per square kilometre 2023 up 84.9% volatile
157 Sierra Leone 18,398 current US$ per square kilometre 2023 down 30.7% volatile
158 Kyrgyz Republic 17,649 current US$ per square kilometre 2023 up 64.5% volatile
159 Tajikistan, Republic of 17,645 current US$ per square kilometre 2023 up 112.5% rising
160 Syrian Arab Republic 17,595 current US$ per square kilometre 2023 up 89.1% volatile
161 Bhutan 16,806 current US$ per square kilometre 2023 up 17.8% volatile
162 Comoros, Union of the 16,658 current US$ per square kilometre 2023 up 47.6% volatile
163 Burkina Faso 16,327 current US$ per square kilometre 2023 up 89.6% volatile
164 Samoa 15,468 current US$ per square kilometre 2023 down 29.4% volatile
165 Solomon Islands 15,398 current US$ per square kilometre 2023 down 11.5% volatile
166 Cuba 15,250 current US$ per square kilometre 2023 down 69.9% volatile
167 Palau, Republic of 15,217 current US$ per square kilometre 2023 unchanged falling
168 Suriname 14,398 current US$ per square kilometre 2023 down 4.3% volatile
169 Zambia 14,032 current US$ per square kilometre 2023 down 1.7% volatile
170 Tonga 13,889 current US$ per square kilometre 2023 down 41.2% volatile
171 Cabo Verde 12,655 current US$ per square kilometre 2023 down 26.1% volatile
172 Kenya 12,380 current US$ per square kilometre 2023 up 20.3% volatile
173 Congo, Democratic Republic of the 12,230 current US$ per square kilometre 2023 up 347.2% volatile
174 Liberia 11,472 current US$ per square kilometre 2023 up 97.7% volatile
175 Timor-Leste, Democratic Republic of 11,029 current US$ per square kilometre 2023 up 811.1% volatile
176 Mozambique, Republic of 10,524 current US$ per square kilometre 2023 up 105.7% volatile
177 Cameroon 10,423 current US$ per square kilometre 2023 up 9.1% volatile
178 Malawi 10,246 current US$ per square kilometre 2023 down 19.5% volatile
179 Botswana 10,169 current US$ per square kilometre 2023 down 27.2% volatile
180 Bolivia 10,072 current US$ per square kilometre 2023 down 6.4% volatile
181 Mongolia 9,745 current US$ per square kilometre 2023 up 255.5% volatile
182 Venezuela, República Bolivariana de 8,860 current US$ per square kilometre 2023 down 91.2% volatile
183 Northern Mariana Islands 8,696 current US$ per square kilometre 2023 unchanged volatile
184 Guinea-Bissau 8,535 current US$ per square kilometre 2023 up 56.9% volatile
185 Tanzania, United Republic of 8,213 current US$ per square kilometre 2023 up 59.6% volatile
186 Burundi 8,178 current US$ per square kilometre 2023 up 123.4% volatile
187 Nepal 7,987 current US$ per square kilometre 2023 up 30.3% volatile
188 Namibia 6,712 current US$ per square kilometre 2023 up 19.4% volatile
189 Madagascar, Republic of 5,523 current US$ per square kilometre 2023 up 67.1% volatile
190 Vanuatu 4,922 current US$ per square kilometre 2023 up 53.8% volatile
191 Mali 4,635 current US$ per square kilometre 2023 up 141.8% volatile
192 Turks and Caicos Islands 4,211 current US$ per square kilometre 2023 down 33.3% falling
193 Eritrea, The State of 3,969 current US$ per square kilometre 2023 up 52.1% volatile
194 Mauritania, Islamic Republic of 3,944 current US$ per square kilometre 2023 up 65.0% volatile
195 Chad 3,656 current US$ per square kilometre 2023 up 21.2% volatile
196 Ethiopia, The Federal Democratic Republic of 3,073 current US$ per square kilometre 2023 up 16.7% volatile
197 Democratic People’s Republic of Korea 2,741 current US$ per square kilometre 2023 down 91.4% volatile
198 Greenland 2,307 current US$ per square kilometre 2023 up 74.7% volatile
199 Sudan 1,942 current US$ per square kilometre 2023 down 24.3% flat
200 Somalia 1,583 current US$ per square kilometre 2023 up 56.9% volatile
201 South Sudan, Republic of 1,377 current US$ per square kilometre 2023 falling
202 Afghanistan, Islamic Republic of 1,374 current US$ per square kilometre 2023 up 74.0% volatile
203 Niger 783.14 current US$ per square kilometre 2023 down 37.5% volatile
204 Yemen, Republic of 471.62 current US$ per square kilometre 2023 down 96.5% volatile
205 Central African Republic 274.49 current US$ per square kilometre 2023 up 47.4% rising
206 Tuvalu 0 current US$ per square kilometre 2023 flat

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Merchandise exports (current US$) divided by Land area (sq. km), matched on country and year. Neither publisher issues this ratio as a series; it is computed here from both.

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Merchandise exports (current US$), per square kilometre
Unit
current US$ per square kilometre
Source
Statizoid (derived)
Licence
Derived by Statizoid from the sources named on the page
Coverage
253 places, 14,096 data points, 1961–2023
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Merchandise exports (current US$) divided by Land area (sq. km), matched on country and year. Neither publisher issues this ratio as a series; it is computed here from both.