External balance on goods and services

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 as a percentage of Gross Domestic Product (GDP) which is the total income earned through the production of goods and services in an economic territory during an accounting period.

Publisher
World Bank
Unit
Cadence
Annual
Series
193
Licence
CC BY 4.0
Updated
2026-09-06

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

Latest observations

CountryPeriodValueUnit
Albania2025-5.50percent
Algeria2025-5.31percent
Angola202511.31percent
Argentina20250.75percent
Armenia2025-5.51percent
Australia20250.59percent
Austria20252.38percent
Azerbaijan20256.21percent
Bangladesh2025-5.72percent
Belarus2025-1.95percent

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