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Merchandise imports by the reporting economy (current US$), per unit of GDP by country

Merchandise imports by the reporting economy (current US$) divided by GDP (current US$), matched on country and year. Neither publisher issues this ratio as a series; it is computed here from both.

Countries reporting
202
Highest
73.95 current US$ per US$ of GDP
Marshall Islands
Lowest
0.067 current US$ per US$ of GDP
Cuba
Median
0.3316 current US$ per US$ of GDP
Years covered
64
1960–2023
Data points
12,916

What the numbers show

Merchandise imports by the reporting economy (current US$), per unit of GDP is currently reported for 202 countries. The highest value is 73.95 current US$ per US$ of GDP in Marshall Islands; the lowest is 0.067 current US$ per US$ of GDP in Cuba.

The median across all reporting countries is 0.3316 current US$ per US$ of GDP, and the mean is 0.7523 current US$ per US$ of GDP.

The gap between the highest and lowest reporting country is a factor of about 1,103.

Over the past decade 95 countries rose and 107 fell. The largest increase was in Curacao (up 27,084.8%), and the largest decrease in Nauru (down 74.7%).

Merchandise imports by the reporting economy (current US$), per unit: full country ranking

#Country LatestYear 10-year changeTrend
1 Marshall Islands 73.95 current US$ per US$ of GDP 2023 up 1,613.6% volatile
2 Hong Kong 1.72 current US$ per US$ of GDP 2023 down 9.4% rising
3 Tuvalu 1.44 current US$ per US$ of GDP 2023 down 15.3% rising
4 Djibouti 1.37 current US$ per US$ of GDP 2023 up 33.1% rising
5 Bhutan 1.27 current US$ per US$ of GDP 2023 up 100.7% volatile
6 Micronesia (country) 1.17 current US$ per US$ of GDP 2023 up 111.2% volatile
7 Slovenia 1.03 current US$ per US$ of GDP 2023 up 50.0% rising
8 Gambia 1.03 current US$ per US$ of GDP 2023 up 305.6% falling
9 Palau 0.9749 current US$ per US$ of GDP 2023 up 31.1% rising
10 Lebanon 0.8973 current US$ per US$ of GDP 2023 up 84.6% falling
11 Belgium 0.8533 current US$ per US$ of GDP 2023 down 0.8% rising
12 Slovakia 0.8488 current US$ per US$ of GDP 2023 up 2.7% rising
13 Singapore 0.828 current US$ per US$ of GDP 2023 down 31.6% falling
14 Kyrgyzstan 0.8245 current US$ per US$ of GDP 2023 up 1.1% rising
15 Belarus 0.788 current US$ per US$ of GDP 2023 up 40.9% rising
16 Lesotho 0.7723 current US$ per US$ of GDP 2023 up 11.3% rising
17 North Macedonia 0.7601 current US$ per US$ of GDP 2023 up 24.2% rising
18 United Arab Emirates 0.7497 current US$ per US$ of GDP 2023 up 67.0% rising
19 Netherlands 0.738 current US$ per US$ of GDP 2023 up 11.0% rising
20 Vietnam 0.7341 current US$ per US$ of GDP 2023 up 21.4% volatile
21 Hungary 0.7223 current US$ per US$ of GDP 2023 down 1.8% volatile
22 Sint Maarten (Dutch part) 0.6951 current US$ per US$ of GDP 2023 up 344.1% volatile
23 Cape Verde 0.6947 current US$ per US$ of GDP 2023 up 96.4% rising
24 Kiribati 0.6791 current US$ per US$ of GDP 2023 up 40.8% falling
25 Seychelles 0.6745 current US$ per US$ of GDP 2023 down 68.9% volatile
26 Malaysia 0.6664 current US$ per US$ of GDP 2023 up 5.3% rising
27 Czechia 0.6649 current US$ per US$ of GDP 2023 down 1.3% rising
28 Latvia 0.6391 current US$ per US$ of GDP 2023 up 4.3% rising
29 Kosovo 0.6163 current US$ per US$ of GDP 2023 up 29.1% rising
30 Lithuania 0.602 current US$ per US$ of GDP 2023 down 19.9% rising
31 Tajikistan 0.5765 current US$ per US$ of GDP 2023 up 31.4% falling
32 Namibia 0.5739 current US$ per US$ of GDP 2023 down 5.3% rising
33 Bosnia and Herzegovina 0.5561 current US$ per US$ of GDP 2023 down 1.8% rising
34 Cambodia 0.5553 current US$ per US$ of GDP 2023 up 19.6% volatile
35 Estonia 0.5501 current US$ per US$ of GDP 2023 down 23.4% flat
36 Thailand 0.5499 current US$ per US$ of GDP 2023 down 6.3% rising
37 Fiji 0.5455 current US$ per US$ of GDP 2023 down 17.8% rising
38 Saint Lucia 0.5399 current US$ per US$ of GDP 2023 up 1.4% rising
39 Montenegro 0.5339 current US$ per US$ of GDP 2023 up 1.7% falling
40 Maldives 0.5282 current US$ per US$ of GDP 2023 up 0.4% falling
41 Bulgaria 0.5227 current US$ per US$ of GDP 2023 down 14.6% rising
42 Tunisia 0.5196 current US$ per US$ of GDP 2023 up 6.7% rising
43 Moldova 0.5184 current US$ per US$ of GDP 2023 down 10.3% rising
44 Armenia 0.5154 current US$ per US$ of GDP 2023 up 28.1% rising
45 Georgia 0.507 current US$ per US$ of GDP 2023 up 12.8% rising
46 Croatia 0.5051 current US$ per US$ of GDP 2023 up 38.3% rising
47 Liberia 0.4937 current US$ per US$ of GDP 2023 down 0.2% volatile
48 Faroe Islands 0.4895 current US$ per US$ of GDP 2023 up 6.5% flat
49 Serbia 0.4888 current US$ per US$ of GDP 2023 up 20.0% rising
50 Mozambique 0.4821 current US$ per US$ of GDP 2023 down 17.8% rising
51 Morocco 0.4819 current US$ per US$ of GDP 2023 up 24.6% rising
52 Suriname 0.4777 current US$ per US$ of GDP 2023 up 275.9% volatile
53 Honduras 0.4665 current US$ per US$ of GDP 2023 down 5.7% rising
54 El Salvador 0.4657 current US$ per US$ of GDP 2023 down 3.1% rising
55 Mongolia 0.4559 current US$ per US$ of GDP 2023 down 10.0% volatile
56 Jordan 0.4531 current US$ per US$ of GDP 2023 down 21.8% rising
57 Nicaragua 0.4528 current US$ per US$ of GDP 2023 down 11.4% rising
58 Dominica 0.4522 current US$ per US$ of GDP 2023 up 32.0% falling
59 Poland 0.4521 current US$ per US$ of GDP 2023 up 13.3% rising
60 Mauritania 0.4506 current US$ per US$ of GDP 2023 down 18.0% rising
61 Samoa 0.4423 current US$ per US$ of GDP 2023 down 3.4% rising
62 Nauru 0.4414 current US$ per US$ of GDP 2023 down 74.7% volatile
63 Eswatini 0.4411 current US$ per US$ of GDP 2023 up 2.7% falling
64 Austria 0.4379 current US$ per US$ of GDP 2023 up 1.9% rising
65 Tonga 0.4357 current US$ per US$ of GDP 2023 up 4.6% falling
66 Solomon Islands 0.4351 current US$ per US$ of GDP 2023 up 7.7% falling
67 Belize 0.4349 current US$ per US$ of GDP 2023 down 2.3% falling
68 East Timor 0.4314 current US$ per US$ of GDP 2023 up 20.6% falling
69 Saint Vincent and the Grenadines 0.4253 current US$ per US$ of GDP 2023 down 11.8% falling
70 Libya 0.4133 current US$ per US$ of GDP 2023 up 1.1% rising
71 Aruba 0.4091 current US$ per US$ of GDP 2023 down 10.1% flat
72 Curacao 0.4072 current US$ per US$ of GDP 2023 up 27,084.8% volatile
73 Grenada 0.4044 current US$ per US$ of GDP 2023 down 25.6% flat
74 Mali 0.3984 current US$ per US$ of GDP 2023 up 76.3% rising
75 Paraguay 0.3953 current US$ per US$ of GDP 2023 up 27.1% rising
76 Switzerland 0.3921 current US$ per US$ of GDP 2023 down 12.2% rising
77 Congo 0.389 current US$ per US$ of GDP 2023 down 16.5% volatile
78 Portugal 0.3886 current US$ per US$ of GDP 2023 up 16.4% rising
79 Macao 0.384 current US$ per US$ of GDP 2023 up 95.2% falling
80 Senegal 0.3819 current US$ per US$ of GDP 2023 up 19.2% rising
81 Romania 0.3793 current US$ per US$ of GDP 2023 down 2.0% rising
82 Brunei 0.3769 current US$ per US$ of GDP 2023 up 89.8% volatile
83 Cyprus 0.3761 current US$ per US$ of GDP 2023 up 42.7% falling
84 Albania 0.3698 current US$ per US$ of GDP 2023 down 3.4% rising
85 Zambia 0.3671 current US$ per US$ of GDP 2023 up 6.6% rising
86 Somalia 0.3669 current US$ per US$ of GDP 2023 up 23.5% volatile
87 Malta 0.3654 current US$ per US$ of GDP 2023 down 33.4% falling
88 Democratic Republic of Congo 0.365 current US$ per US$ of GDP 2023 up 27.9% volatile
89 Oman 0.3645 current US$ per US$ of GDP 2023 down 4.5% rising
90 Greece 0.3637 current US$ per US$ of GDP 2023 up 41.5% rising
91 Greenland 0.3634 current US$ per US$ of GDP 2023 up 8.3% falling
92 Palestine 0.3586 current US$ per US$ of GDP 2023 down 6.1% falling
93 Vanuatu 0.3572 current US$ per US$ of GDP 2023 down 14.0% volatile
94 Trinidad and Tobago 0.3563 current US$ per US$ of GDP 2023 down 19.1% falling
95 Jamaica 0.3542 current US$ per US$ of GDP 2023 down 17.2% rising
96 Mexico 0.3531 current US$ per US$ of GDP 2023 up 16.2% volatile
97 Ukraine 0.3504 current US$ per US$ of GDP 2023 down 13.2% rising
98 South Korea 0.3471 current US$ per US$ of GDP 2023 down 3.3% rising
99 Laos 0.3453 current US$ per US$ of GDP 2023 down 49.2% volatile
100 Uzbekistan 0.3347 current US$ per US$ of GDP 2023 down 1.8% rising
101 Sweden 0.333 current US$ per US$ of GDP 2023 up 21.1% rising
102 Bahrain 0.3301 current US$ per US$ of GDP 2023 down 39.9% falling
103 Antigua and Barbuda 0.3252 current US$ per US$ of GDP 2023 up 25.9% falling
104 Germany 0.3215 current US$ per US$ of GDP 2023 up 3.7% rising
105 Mauritius 0.3205 current US$ per US$ of GDP 2023 down 22.9% rising
106 Togo 0.3137 current US$ per US$ of GDP 2023 down 22.7% rising
107 Saint Kitts and Nevis 0.3132 current US$ per US$ of GDP 2023 up 10.2% volatile
108 Botswana 0.3033 current US$ per US$ of GDP 2023 down 54.0% falling
109 Sierra Leone 0.3022 current US$ per US$ of GDP 2023 up 55.9% flat
110 Iceland 0.2991 current US$ per US$ of GDP 2023 down 3.2% rising
111 Denmark 0.2977 current US$ per US$ of GDP 2023 up 5.4% rising
112 Turkey 0.2955 current US$ per US$ of GDP 2023 up 15.0% volatile
113 Luxembourg 0.2953 current US$ per US$ of GDP 2023 down 27.8% falling
114 Guyana 0.2953 current US$ per US$ of GDP 2023 down 33.8% falling
115 South Africa 0.2948 current US$ per US$ of GDP 2023 up 8.4% rising
116 Barbados 0.2939 current US$ per US$ of GDP 2023 down 5.9% falling
117 Nepal 0.2933 current US$ per US$ of GDP 2023 up 0.9% rising
118 Madagascar 0.2931 current US$ per US$ of GDP 2023 up 46.0% rising
119 Burkina Faso 0.2924 current US$ per US$ of GDP 2023 down 9.7% rising
120 Guatemala 0.2907 current US$ per US$ of GDP 2023 down 11.2% rising
121 New Caledonia 0.2906 current US$ per US$ of GDP 2023 down 1.7% falling
122 Spain 0.2893 current US$ per US$ of GDP 2023 up 15.9% rising
123 Philippines 0.2885 current US$ per US$ of GDP 2023 up 20.7% rising
124 Central African Republic 0.2881 current US$ per US$ of GDP 2023 up 282.2% rising
125 Finland 0.2806 current US$ per US$ of GDP 2023 down 2.1% rising
126 Burundi 0.2805 current US$ per US$ of GDP 2023 down 4.7% rising
127 Italy 0.2739 current US$ per US$ of GDP 2023 up 23.9% rising
128 Bahamas 0.2701 current US$ per US$ of GDP 2023 down 16.2% volatile
129 Canada 0.2667 current US$ per US$ of GDP 2023 up 1.4% rising
130 Ireland 0.2646 current US$ per US$ of GDP 2023 down 12.3% falling
131 Sao Tome and Principe 0.2631 current US$ per US$ of GDP 2023 down 53.8% rising
132 Rwanda 0.2583 current US$ per US$ of GDP 2023 up 0.5% rising
133 Costa Rica 0.2566 current US$ per US$ of GDP 2023 down 27.9% rising
134 France 0.2563 current US$ per US$ of GDP 2023 up 5.9% rising
135 Ecuador 0.2558 current US$ per US$ of GDP 2023 down 8.1% rising
136 American Samoa 0.2498 current US$ per US$ of GDP 2022 down 37.2% falling
137 Myanmar 0.2463 current US$ per US$ of GDP 2023 up 23.6% volatile
138 Chile 0.2442 current US$ per US$ of GDP 2023 down 11.4% rising
139 Guinea 0.2417 current US$ per US$ of GDP 2023 down 15.6% volatile
140 Comoros 0.2417 current US$ per US$ of GDP 2023 up 28.8% falling
141 Peru 0.239 current US$ per US$ of GDP 2023 up 4.0% rising
142 Azerbaijan 0.2386 current US$ per US$ of GDP 2023 up 65.3% volatile
143 Afghanistan 0.2379 current US$ per US$ of GDP 2023 up 141.9% rising
144 Dominican Republic 0.2376 current US$ per US$ of GDP 2023 down 15.1% rising
145 Uganda 0.2358 current US$ per US$ of GDP 2023 up 17.4% rising
146 Malawi 0.2349 current US$ per US$ of GDP 2023 down 33.5% rising
147 Kazakhstan 0.2336 current US$ per US$ of GDP 2023 up 12.6% flat
148 Cote d'Ivoire 0.2276 current US$ per US$ of GDP 2023 down 23.4% falling
149 Kuwait 0.2263 current US$ per US$ of GDP 2023 up 33.0% flat
150 Eritrea 0.2256 current US$ per US$ of GDP 2011 down 31.0% falling
151 Bolivia 0.2195 current US$ per US$ of GDP 2023 down 30.6% rising
152 San Marino 0.2132 current US$ per US$ of GDP 2023 up 7.1% rising
153 United Kingdom 0.211 current US$ per US$ of GDP 2023 down 7.0% rising
154 Gabon 0.211 current US$ per US$ of GDP 2023 down 42.3% rising
155 Papua New Guinea 0.2052 current US$ per US$ of GDP 2023 down 38.2% falling
156 Iraq 0.2037 current US$ per US$ of GDP 2023 up 6.5% volatile
157 Ghana 0.2034 current US$ per US$ of GDP 2023 down 0.0% rising
158 Zimbabwe 0.2023 current US$ per US$ of GDP 2023 down 18.3% volatile
159 Guam 0.2006 current US$ per US$ of GDP 2022 down 14.6% flat
160 Benin 0.1985 current US$ per US$ of GDP 2023 down 17.7% rising
161 New Zealand 0.1966 current US$ per US$ of GDP 2023 down 4.9% rising
162 Norway 0.1927 current US$ per US$ of GDP 2023 up 18.1% falling
163 Sri Lanka 0.1915 current US$ per US$ of GDP 2023 down 17.7% rising
164 Tanzania 0.1913 current US$ per US$ of GDP 2023 down 29.1% volatile
165 India 0.1904 current US$ per US$ of GDP 2023 down 24.1% volatile
166 Egypt 0.1858 current US$ per US$ of GDP 2023 down 17.6% rising
167 Niger 0.1857 current US$ per US$ of GDP 2023 up 11.7% rising
168 Japan 0.1791 current US$ per US$ of GDP 2023 up 13.5% rising
169 Cameroon 0.1766 current US$ per US$ of GDP 2023 down 13.0% flat
170 Saudi Arabia 0.1729 current US$ per US$ of GDP 2023 down 18.2% rising
171 Kenya 0.1729 current US$ per US$ of GDP 2023 down 33.7% falling
172 Algeria 0.1717 current US$ per US$ of GDP 2023 down 28.1% falling
173 Colombia 0.1678 current US$ per US$ of GDP 2023 up 10.8% rising
174 Bermuda 0.1663 current US$ per US$ of GDP 2023 up 7.0% falling
175 Australia 0.166 current US$ per US$ of GDP 2023 up 10.2% rising
176 Indonesia 0.1617 current US$ per US$ of GDP 2023 down 20.8% rising
177 Israel 0.1582 current US$ per US$ of GDP 2023 down 17.9% rising
178 Uruguay 0.1561 current US$ per US$ of GDP 2023 down 17.0% rising
179 Guinea-Bissau 0.1551 current US$ per US$ of GDP 2023 up 35.7% falling
180 Angola 0.1479 current US$ per US$ of GDP 2023 down 17.7% falling
181 Pakistan 0.1469 current US$ per US$ of GDP 2023 down 12.6% rising
182 Qatar 0.1434 current US$ per US$ of GDP 2023 up 9.0% falling
183 Syria 0.141 current US$ per US$ of GDP 2022 down 45.2% volatile
184 Bangladesh 0.1402 current US$ per US$ of GDP 2023 down 39.2% rising
185 Sudan 0.1364 current US$ per US$ of GDP 2023 down 37.0% rising
186 Yemen 0.1354 current US$ per US$ of GDP 2018 down 63.6% rising
187 China 0.1344 current US$ per US$ of GDP 2023 down 26.0% rising
188 Nigeria 0.1319 current US$ per US$ of GDP 2023 down 15.1% rising
189 Russia 0.1281 current US$ per US$ of GDP 2023 down 6.7% rising
190 Ethiopia 0.1255 current US$ per US$ of GDP 2023 down 50.5% volatile
191 Panama 0.1237 current US$ per US$ of GDP 2023 down 37.1% falling
192 Venezuela 0.1198 current US$ per US$ of GDP 2023 down 32.9% falling
193 Brazil 0.1163 current US$ per US$ of GDP 2023 up 13.9% rising
194 Iran 0.1153 current US$ per US$ of GDP 2023 up 19.9% rising
195 Argentina 0.1121 current US$ per US$ of GDP 2023 down 15.6% rising
196 United States 0.1109 current US$ per US$ of GDP 2023 down 17.5% rising
197 Haiti 0.1095 current US$ per US$ of GDP 2023 down 5.8% falling
198 French Polynesia 0.1052 current US$ per US$ of GDP 2023 down 65.0% flat
199 Turkmenistan 0.1031 current US$ per US$ of GDP 2023 down 50.4% volatile
200 Equatorial Guinea 0.0893 current US$ per US$ of GDP 2023 down 49.1% volatile
201 Chad 0.0757 current US$ per US$ of GDP 2023 up 8.1% falling
202 Cuba 0.067 current US$ per US$ of GDP 2020 down 56.7% rising

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Aggregates are excluded from the country ranking above so that a region can never outrank a country.

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Merchandise imports by the reporting economy (current US$) divided by GDP (current US$), matched on country and year. Neither publisher issues this ratio as a series; it is computed here from both.

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Merchandise imports by the reporting economy (current US$), per unit of GDP
Unit
current US$ per US$ of GDP
Source
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Derived by Statizoid from the sources named on the page
Coverage
249 places, 12,916 data points, 1960–2023
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Merchandise imports by the reporting economy (current US$) divided by GDP (current US$), matched on country and year. Neither publisher issues this ratio as a series; it is computed here from both.