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

Merchandise imports (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
206
Highest
622.57 million current US$ per square kilometre
Hong Kong Special Administrative Region, People's Republic of China
Lowest
698.26 current US$ per square kilometre
Central African Republic
Median
218,472 current US$ per square kilometre
Years covered
63
1961–2023
Data points
14,042

What the numbers show

Merchandise imports (current US$), per square kilometre is currently reported for 206 countries. The highest value is 622.57 million current US$ per square kilometre in Hong Kong Special Administrative Region, People's Republic of China; the lowest is 698.26 current US$ per square kilometre in Central African Republic.

The median across all reporting countries is 218,472 current US$ per square kilometre, and the mean is 10.12 million current US$ per square kilometre.

Over the past decade 169 countries rose and 37 fell. The largest increase was in Djibouti (up 636.4%), and the largest decrease in Venezuela, República Bolivariana de (down 77.6%).

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

#Country LatestYear 10-year changeTrend
1 Hong Kong Special Administrative Region, People's Republic of China 622.57 million current US$ per square kilometre 2023 up 5.0% volatile
2 Singapore 589.76 million current US$ per square kilometre 2023 up 11.8% volatile
3 Macao Special Administrative Region, People's Republic of China 531.58 million current US$ per square kilometre 2023 up 58.8% volatile
4 Sint Maarten, Kingdom of the Netherlands 34.24 million current US$ per square kilometre 2023 up 25.8% rising
5 Malta 26.26 million current US$ per square kilometre 2023 up 36.8% volatile
6 Netherlands 25.05 million current US$ per square kilometre 2023 up 43.1% volatile
7 Bermuda 21.83 million current US$ per square kilometre 2023 up 16.5% rising
8 Bahrain, Kingdom of 19.21 million current US$ per square kilometre 2023 up 48.0% volatile
9 Belgium 18.53 million current US$ per square kilometre 2023 up 24.4% rising
10 Saint Martin 16.12 million current US$ per square kilometre 2021 up 9.8% falling
11 Maldives 11.73 million current US$ per square kilometre 2023 up 103.1% volatile
12 Luxembourg 10.21 million current US$ per square kilometre 2023 down 1.5% rising
13 Switzerland 9.25 million current US$ per square kilometre 2023 up 13.7% volatile
14 Aruba, Kingdom of the Netherlands 7.79 million current US$ per square kilometre 2023 up 1.9% volatile
15 Cayman Islands 7.63 million current US$ per square kilometre 2023 up 86.9% rising
16 United Arab Emirates 6.63 million current US$ per square kilometre 2023 up 73.9% volatile
17 Korea 6.58 million current US$ per square kilometre 2023 up 24.4% volatile
18 Barbados 4.94 million current US$ per square kilometre 2023 up 20.8% volatile
19 Israel 4.25 million current US$ per square kilometre 2023 up 29.2% volatile
20 Andorra, Principality of 4.24 million current US$ per square kilometre 2023 up 28.2% rising
21 Germany 4.20 million current US$ per square kilometre 2023 up 24.0% volatile
22 Curaçao, Kingdom of the Netherlands 4.12 million current US$ per square kilometre 2023 down 4.1% falling
23 Slovenia 3.56 million current US$ per square kilometre 2023 up 114.7% volatile
24 Nauru, Republic of 3.50 million current US$ per square kilometre 2023 down 38.6% falling
25 United Kingdom 3.27 million current US$ per square kilometre 2023 up 19.5% volatile
26 American Samoa 3.18 million current US$ per square kilometre 2023 up 32.8% volatile
27 Seychelles 3.15 million current US$ per square kilometre 2023 up 34.1% volatile
28 Mauritius 3.14 million current US$ per square kilometre 2023 up 16.2% volatile
29 Denmark 3.01 million current US$ per square kilometre 2023 up 23.6% volatile
30 Czechia 3.01 million current US$ per square kilometre 2023 up 60.9% volatile
31 Austria 2.74 million current US$ per square kilometre 2023 up 23.4% volatile
32 Qatar 2.74 million current US$ per square kilometre 2023 up 17.5% volatile
33 Guam 2.42 million current US$ per square kilometre 2023 up 92.4% rising
34 Slovak Republic 2.36 million current US$ per square kilometre 2023 up 38.6% volatile
35 Ireland 2.19 million current US$ per square kilometre 2023 up 109.5% volatile
36 Italy 2.16 million current US$ per square kilometre 2023 up 33.5% volatile
37 Japan 2.16 million current US$ per square kilometre 2023 down 5.5% volatile
38 Kuwait 2.10 million current US$ per square kilometre 2023 up 28.0% volatile
39 Antigua and Barbuda 1.92 million current US$ per square kilometre 2023 up 67.8% volatile
40 Grenada 1.79 million current US$ per square kilometre 2023 up 65.5% volatile
41 Trinidad and Tobago 1.79 million current US$ per square kilometre 2023 down 27.4% volatile
42 Lebanon 1.77 million current US$ per square kilometre 2023 down 17.7% volatile
43 Hungary 1.71 million current US$ per square kilometre 2023 up 54.2% volatile
44 Cyprus 1.53 million current US$ per square kilometre 2023 up 124.0% volatile
45 St. Lucia 1.48 million current US$ per square kilometre 2023 up 45.2% volatile
45 Least developed countries 16,640 current US$ per square kilometre 2023 up 40.2% volatile
46 France 1.46 million current US$ per square kilometre 2023 up 15.7% volatile
47 Tuvalu 1.43 million current US$ per square kilometre 2023 up 104.8% volatile
48 Brunei Darussalam 1.42 million current US$ per square kilometre 2023 up 107.2% volatile
49 St. Kitts and Nevis 1.28 million current US$ per square kilometre 2023 up 33.7% volatile
50 Faroe Islands 1.24 million current US$ per square kilometre 2023 up 55.7% volatile
51 Portugal 1.24 million current US$ per square kilometre 2023 up 50.1% volatile
52 Northern Mariana Islands 1.21 million current US$ per square kilometre 2023 up 66.6% rising
53 Poland 1.21 million current US$ per square kilometre 2023 up 78.2% volatile
54 St. Vincent and the Grenadines 1.17 million current US$ per square kilometre 2023 up 23.2% volatile
55 Vietnam 1.04 million current US$ per square kilometre 2023 up 146.4% volatile
56 Spain 940,324 current US$ per square kilometre 2023 up 38.1% volatile
57 Malaysia 808,604 current US$ per square kilometre 2023 up 29.0% volatile
58 Croatia 776,465 current US$ per square kilometre 2023 up 97.3% volatile
59 Lithuania 774,585 current US$ per square kilometre 2023 up 39.5% volatile
60 El Salvador 755,212 current US$ per square kilometre 2023 up 45.3% volatile
61 Jamaica 701,016 current US$ per square kilometre 2023 up 22.1% volatile
62 Greece 696,974 current US$ per square kilometre 2023 up 47.6% volatile
63 French Polynesia 663,209 current US$ per square kilometre 2023 up 27.8% volatile
64 Dominican Republic 597,805 current US$ per square kilometre 2023 up 71.2% volatile
65 Marshall Islands, Republic of the 577,778 current US$ per square kilometre 2023 down 29.3% rising
66 Romania 573,409 current US$ per square kilometre 2023 up 79.5% volatile
67 Thailand 564,718 current US$ per square kilometre 2023 up 15.2% volatile
68 Estonia 534,940 current US$ per square kilometre 2023 up 25.9% volatile
69 Bangladesh 514,410 current US$ per square kilometre 2023 up 80.6% volatile
70 Bulgaria 494,049 current US$ per square kilometre 2023 up 56.4% volatile
71 North Macedonia, Republic of 478,033 current US$ per square kilometre 2023 up 82.1% volatile
72 Sweden 474,226 current US$ per square kilometre 2023 up 20.3% volatile
73 Serbia, Republic of 473,754 current US$ per square kilometre 2023 up 101.7% rising
74 Costa Rica 470,799 current US$ per square kilometre 2023 up 32.6% volatile
75 Türkiye 470,313 current US$ per square kilometre 2023 up 38.8% volatile
76 Turks and Caicos Islands 466,316 current US$ per square kilometre 2023 up 9.1% rising
77 Panama 462,187 current US$ per square kilometre 2023 up 49.5% volatile
78 Armenia 452,421 current US$ per square kilometre 2023 up 187.7% volatile
79 Philippines 448,757 current US$ per square kilometre 2023 up 103.5% volatile
80 Micronesia, Federated States of 430,000 current US$ per square kilometre 2023 up 60.1% rising
81 Latvia 427,720 current US$ per square kilometre 2023 up 49.0% volatile
82 Palau, Republic of 426,087 current US$ per square kilometre 2023 up 16.0% rising
83 Cabo Verde 423,077 current US$ per square kilometre 2023 up 135.2% volatile
84 Bahamas, The 418,382 current US$ per square kilometre 2023 up 24.4% volatile
85 Dominica 402,667 current US$ per square kilometre 2023 up 48.8% volatile
86 Kiribati 380,247 current US$ per square kilometre 2023 up 217.5% volatile
87 Tonga 377,778 current US$ per square kilometre 2023 up 37.4% volatile
88 United States 346,353 current US$ per square kilometre 2023 up 36.0% volatile
89 Mexico 323,289 current US$ per square kilometre 2023 up 60.7% volatile
90 Albania 317,299 current US$ per square kilometre 2023 up 76.7% volatile
91 Montenegro 306,468 current US$ per square kilometre 2023 up 75.1% rising
92 Bosnia and Herzegovina 299,902 current US$ per square kilometre 2023 up 49.2% volatile
93 Jordan 290,076 current US$ per square kilometre 2023 up 19.5% volatile
94 Guatemala 282,923 current US$ per square kilometre 2023 up 73.1% volatile
95 Finland 273,398 current US$ per square kilometre 2023 up 7.1% volatile
96 Norway 273,229 current US$ per square kilometre 2023 up 11.1% volatile
97 China (People’s Republic of) 272,356 current US$ per square kilometre 2023 up 31.1% volatile
98 Sri Lanka 271,759 current US$ per square kilometre 2023 down 5.3% volatile
99 Moldova 263,438 current US$ per square kilometre 2023 up 57.7% volatile
100 Gambia, The 241,897 current US$ per square kilometre 2023 up 599.4% volatile
101 Djibouti 228,430 current US$ per square kilometre 2023 up 636.4% volatile
102 India 226,669 current US$ per square kilometre 2023 up 44.8% volatile
103 Georgia 224,651 current US$ per square kilometre 2023 up 94.6% volatile
104 Belarus, Republic of 212,294 current US$ per square kilometre 2023 up 0.3% volatile
105 Rwanda 211,998 current US$ per square kilometre 2023 up 127.2% volatile
106 Azerbaijan, Republic of 209,135 current US$ per square kilometre 2023 up 67.5% volatile
107 Comoros, Union of the 192,370 current US$ per square kilometre 2023 up 26.1% volatile
108 São Tomé and Príncipe, Democratic Republic of 191,667 current US$ per square kilometre 2023 up 21.1% volatile
109 New Zealand 189,727 current US$ per square kilometre 2023 up 26.0% volatile
110 New Caledonia 174,781 current US$ per square kilometre 2023 down 0.2% volatile
111 Haiti 171,081 current US$ per square kilometre 2023 up 31.7% volatile
112 Samoa 170,144 current US$ per square kilometre 2023 up 31.2% volatile
113 Fiji, Republic of 169,677 current US$ per square kilometre 2023 up 9.7% volatile
114 Tunisia 164,038 current US$ per square kilometre 2023 up 5.0% volatile
115 Honduras 155,072 current US$ per square kilometre 2023 up 58.4% volatile
116 Morocco 153,780 current US$ per square kilometre 2023 up 51.9% volatile
117 Iraq 151,627 current US$ per square kilometre 2023 up 4.0% volatile
118 Cambodia 138,120 current US$ per square kilometre 2023 up 155.2% volatile
119 Oman 125,283 current US$ per square kilometre 2023 up 12.9% volatile
120 Ecuador 124,424 current US$ per square kilometre 2023 up 13.8% volatile
121 Eswatini, Kingdom of 118,547 current US$ per square kilometre 2023 up 20.4% volatile
122 Indonesia 117,241 current US$ per square kilometre 2023 up 17.9% volatile
123 Chile 114,764 current US$ per square kilometre 2023 up 7.5% volatile
124 Ukraine 110,054 current US$ per square kilometre 2023 down 17.0% volatile
125 South Africa 107,778 current US$ per square kilometre 2023 up 3.5% volatile
126 Saudi Arabia 96,265 current US$ per square kilometre 2023 up 23.1% volatile
127 Iceland 93,821 current US$ per square kilometre 2023 up 87.4% volatile
128 Nicaragua 90,710 current US$ per square kilometre 2023 up 63.2% volatile
129 Cuba 86,445 current US$ per square kilometre 2023 down 38.7% volatile
130 Nepal 83,830 current US$ per square kilometre 2023 up 82.9% volatile
131 Egypt, Arab Republic of 83,590 current US$ per square kilometre 2023 up 25.7% volatile
132 Uzbekistan, Republic of 80,733 current US$ per square kilometre 2023 up 167.8% volatile
133 Uruguay 71,340 current US$ per square kilometre 2023 up 7.2% volatile
134 Kyrgyz Republic 65,266 current US$ per square kilometre 2023 up 106.2% volatile
135 Pakistan 65,027 current US$ per square kilometre 2023 up 12.3% volatile
136 Canada 64,955 current US$ per square kilometre 2023 up 22.4% volatile
137 Senegal 61,700 current US$ per square kilometre 2023 up 81.3% volatile
138 Ghana 61,569 current US$ per square kilometre 2023 down 20.4% volatile
139 Timor-Leste, Democratic Republic of 60,794 current US$ per square kilometre 2023 up 7.2% volatile
140 Togo 59,919 current US$ per square kilometre 2023 up 17.7% volatile
141 Côte d'Ivoire 59,252 current US$ per square kilometre 2023 up 48.1% volatile
142 Belize 58,790 current US$ per square kilometre 2023 up 44.5% volatile
143 Uganda 58,747 current US$ per square kilometre 2023 up 102.5% volatile
144 Lesotho, Kingdom of 56,785 current US$ per square kilometre 2023 down 20.7% volatile
145 Colombia 56,599 current US$ per square kilometre 2023 up 5.7% volatile
146 Equatorial Guinea, Republic of 54,831 current US$ per square kilometre 2023 down 73.3% volatile
147 Nigeria 54,271 current US$ per square kilometre 2023 down 11.7% volatile
148 Burundi 46,651 current US$ per square kilometre 2023 up 47.7% volatile
149 Benin 46,577 current US$ per square kilometre 2023 up 74.5% volatile
150 Tajikistan, Republic of 42,366 current US$ per square kilometre 2023 up 42.8% volatile
151 Peru 40,934 current US$ per square kilometre 2023 up 20.0% volatile
152 Paraguay 40,668 current US$ per square kilometre 2023 up 33.1% volatile
153 Iran, Islamic Republic of 40,571 current US$ per square kilometre 2023 up 41.9% volatile
154 Vanuatu 38,802 current US$ per square kilometre 2023 up 51.1% volatile
155 Australia 37,364 current US$ per square kilometre 2023 up 18.5% volatile
156 Bhutan 34,426 current US$ per square kilometre 2023 up 44.4% volatile
157 Malawi 33,316 current US$ per square kilometre 2023 up 10.8% volatile
158 Lao People's Democratic Republic 33,141 current US$ per square kilometre 2023 up 148.3% volatile
159 Syrian Arab Republic 32,680 current US$ per square kilometre 2023 down 32.2% volatile
160 Kenya 31,995 current US$ per square kilometre 2023 up 11.3% volatile
161 Guyana 31,429 current US$ per square kilometre 2023 up 230.0% volatile
162 Brazil 30,235 current US$ per square kilometre 2023 up 0.2% volatile
163 Argentina 26,976 current US$ per square kilometre 2023 down 0.8% volatile
164 Sierra Leone 26,628 current US$ per square kilometre 2023 up 8.0% volatile
165 Solomon Islands 25,259 current US$ per square kilometre 2023 up 31.7% volatile
166 Myanmar 25,189 current US$ per square kilometre 2023 up 36.6% volatile
167 Zimbabwe 23,818 current US$ per square kilometre 2023 up 27.7% volatile
168 Kazakhstan, Republic of 22,467 current US$ per square kilometre 2023 up 24.3% volatile
169 Liberia 21,553 current US$ per square kilometre 2023 up 80.5% volatile
170 Burkina Faso 21,542 current US$ per square kilometre 2023 up 35.0% volatile
171 Democratic People’s Republic of Korea 20,264 current US$ per square kilometre 2023 down 47.5% rising
172 Guinea 19,714 current US$ per square kilometre 2023 up 159.2% volatile
173 Russian Federation 18,507 current US$ per square kilometre 2023 down 11.2% volatile
174 Algeria 17,988 current US$ per square kilometre 2023 down 22.1% volatile
175 Cameroon 17,412 current US$ per square kilometre 2023 up 23.8% volatile
176 Guinea-Bissau 16,856 current US$ per square kilometre 2023 up 121.5% volatile
177 Gabon 16,366 current US$ per square kilometre 2023 down 35.5% volatile
178 Tanzania, United Republic of 15,499 current US$ per square kilometre 2023 up 13.5% volatile
179 Ethiopia, The Federal Democratic Republic of 15,287 current US$ per square kilometre 2023 up 42.9% volatile
180 Congo, Republic of 13,757 current US$ per square kilometre 2023 down 43.9% volatile
181 Zambia 13,620 current US$ per square kilometre 2023 down 4.4% volatile
182 Mozambique, Republic of 12,834 current US$ per square kilometre 2023 down 0.1% volatile
183 Angola 12,590 current US$ per square kilometre 2023 down 40.4% volatile
184 Venezuela, República Bolivariana de 12,403 current US$ per square kilometre 2023 down 77.6% volatile
185 Papua New Guinea 11,944 current US$ per square kilometre 2023 down 0.0% volatile
186 Botswana 11,480 current US$ per square kilometre 2023 down 22.1% volatile
187 Congo, Democratic Republic of the 11,261 current US$ per square kilometre 2023 up 305.2% volatile
188 Bolivia 10,612 current US$ per square kilometre 2023 up 23.1% volatile
189 Suriname 10,573 current US$ per square kilometre 2023 down 21.9% volatile
190 Libya 10,341 current US$ per square kilometre 2023 down 35.2% volatile
191 Turkmenistan 9,440 current US$ per square kilometre 2023 down 55.6% volatile
192 Namibia 8,867 current US$ per square kilometre 2023 down 4.2% volatile
193 Yemen, Republic of 8,718 current US$ per square kilometre 2023 down 65.3% volatile
194 Madagascar, Republic of 8,164 current US$ per square kilometre 2023 up 45.7% volatile
195 Somalia 6,400 current US$ per square kilometre 2023 up 117.7% volatile
196 Mongolia 5,935 current US$ per square kilometre 2023 up 45.4% volatile
197 Afghanistan, Islamic Republic of 5,777 current US$ per square kilometre 2023 down 56.0% volatile
198 Mali 5,726 current US$ per square kilometre 2023 up 83.5% volatile
199 Mauritania, Islamic Republic of 4,674 current US$ per square kilometre 2023 up 21.1% volatile
200 Eritrea, The State of 4,118 current US$ per square kilometre 2023 down 52.1% rising
201 Sudan 3,917 current US$ per square kilometre 2023 down 26.2% flat
202 Greenland 2,814 current US$ per square kilometre 2023 up 20.9% volatile
203 Niger 2,575 current US$ per square kilometre 2023 up 28.5% volatile
204 Chad 1,658 current US$ per square kilometre 2023 down 30.4% volatile
205 Central African Republic 698.26 current US$ per square kilometre 2023 up 104.2% volatile

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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 (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.

Merchandise imports (current US$) ÷ Land area (sq. km)

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Merchandise imports (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
252 places, 14,042 data points, 1961–2023
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Merchandise imports (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.