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External balance on goods and services (constant LCU)

The balance of international trade in goods and services is the difference between the exports and imports of goods and services. This indicator is expressed in constant prices, meaning the series has been adjusted to account for price changes over time. The reference year for this adjustment varies by country. This series is expressed in local currency units.

Coverage
176 of 238 countries
Latest data
2025
Series
176
Unit
constant LCU
Licence
CC BY 4.0
Retrieved
2026-11-05
Indicator
external-balance-on-goods-and-services-kn
Interva ID
worldbank-external-balance-on-goods-and-services-kn

Recency

current

data to 2025; catalog to 2025

Provenance

4 steps

as the publisher declares it

Versions

1

catalog snapshots

Citation

BibTeX + CSL

versioned permalink

Quality profile

This profile describes what Interva can measure in the data. It does not claim the dataset is accurate, complete, or suitable for a particular use.

Recency

100%

Latest observation is 2025; the catalog broadly reports to 2025, so this data is 0 year(s) behind (current).

Method: Compares the dataset's latest non-projected period with the year most datasets in the catalog end in. Up to 2 years behind is current — annual data is routinely published a year or two late — and more than 5 is stale. Measured from the data, not from when Interva last crawled it.

Temporal completeness

100%

0 of 176 series skip at least one year inside their own span; the median series reports 100% of its years.

Method: Per series, years present divided by years from its first to its last observation; the median across series is reported. Annual periods are assumed, which holds for every series in the catalog today.

Geographic coverage

Measured

Covers 176 of the 238 countries in the catalog.

Method: Counts distinct geographies with at least one observation. Not scored: a regional dataset covering its region completely is not deficient for omitting the rest of the world.

History depth

Measured

The median series has 11 observations; the earliest begins in 1960.

Method: Counts non-projected observations per series. Not scored: a long history is useful for trend work and irrelevant for a cross-section.

Revisions

Measured

No observation has been restated in any vintage Interva has recorded.

Method: Counts values the publisher changed between Interva's publishes. Not scored: revising estimates is ordinary and often a sign of care, and the count is here so a reader citing a figure knows whether it moves.

Schema conformity

Not assessed

No declared schema or validation rules are attached to this dataset yet.

Validity

Not assessed

No field-level validation rules are attached to this dataset yet.

Consistency

Not assessed

Cross-series consistency rules are not defined yet. The obvious first one — whether two publishers measuring one concept agree within a stated tolerance — is a candidate.

2 scored from the data, 3 described without a score, 3 not assessed. Pipeline integrity: all 5 checks pass. Assessed 2026-11-07.

By country

External balance on goods and services (constant LCU) for each of the 176 countries it covers, with the full history.

Latest observations

CountryPeriodValueUnit
Albania2025-219.49Bconstant LCU
Algeria2025-1.32Tconstant LCU
Argentina2025-48.32Bconstant LCU
Armenia2025-57.66Bconstant LCU
Australia202542.90Bconstant LCU
Austria202516.88Bconstant LCU
Bangladesh2025-1.98Tconstant LCU
Belarus2025-828.11Mconstant LCU
Belgium202510.51Bconstant LCU
Benin2025-317.30Bconstant LCU

Provenance

Who produced these figures, as World Bank declares it — not inferred, and each line says which published field it was read from.

  1. Produced by

    Not named — the declaration is kept verbatim

    Country official statistics, National Statistical Organizations and/or Central Banks

    declared by worldbank in sourceOrganization

    OECD

    National Accounts data files, Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD)

    declared by worldbank in sourceOrganization

    World Bank

    Staff estimates, World Bank (WB)

    declared by worldbank in sourceOrganization

  2. Read from

    World Bank

    World Development Indicators

    declared by worldbank in source

Versions

A vintage is a dated publish of the catalog. The current entry is a catalog snapshot; checksums are not recorded yet and are shown as such.

  • CurrentCurrent catalog snapshotchecksum not recorded

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Citation

Version: catalog snapshot 2026-11-05. The record labels this as a catalog snapshot because immutable dataset releases are not stored yet.

World Bank (2026). External balance on goods and services (constant LCU). Interva. https://interva.co/dataset/worldbank-external-balance-on-goods-and-services-kn (accessed 2026-11-07). catalog snapshot 2026-11-05.

BibTeX
@misc{interva-worldbank-external-balance-on-goods-and-services-kn,
  title        = {External balance on goods and services (constant LCU)},
  author       = {World Bank},
  year         = {2026},
  howpublished = {\url{https://interva.co/dataset/worldbank-external-balance-on-goods-and-services-kn}},
  note         = {Interva dataset worldbank-external-balance-on-goods-and-services-kn; catalog snapshot 2026-11-05},
  urldate      = {2026-11-07}
}

DOI: not assigned (not assigned). The permalink is versioned by catalog snapshot; a stable dataset DOI is a later step.

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