Merchandise trade

General merchandise trade includes goods whose economic ownership is changed between a resident and a non-resident and that are not included in the following specific categories: goods under merchanting, non-monetary gold, and parts of travel, construction, and government goods and services n.i.e. It is the total of merchandise exports plus merchandise imports. 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
205
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

    World Trade Organization

    World Trade Organization (WTO)

    declared by worldbank in sourceOrganization

    World Bank

    World Bank GDP estimates, World Bank (WB)

    declared by worldbank in sourceOrganization

    World Bank

    World Development Indicators, World Bank (WB)

    declared by worldbank in sourceOrganization

  2. Read from

    World Bank

    World Development Indicators

    declared by worldbank in source

Latest observations

CountryPeriodValueUnit
Afghanistan202522.24percent
Albania202547.89percent
Algeria202533.27percent
Andorra202554.65percent
Angola202538.84percent
Antigua and Barbuda202541.48percent
Argentina202523.85percent
Armenia202573.28percent
Australia202536.04percent
Austria202577.73percent

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