Value of imported goods as a share of GDP by country

Estimates correspond to merchandise import-to-GDP ratios for countries and regions. All ratios are taken at current prices. See source for more details.

Countries reporting

190

Highest

636.6%

Liberia

Lowest

7.8%

North Korea

Median

38.6%

Years covered

188

1827–2014

Data points

12,772

What the numbers show

Value of imported goods as a share of GDP is currently reported for 190 countries. The highest value is 636.6% in Liberia; the lowest is 7.8% in North Korea.

The median across all reporting countries is 38.6%, and the mean is 54.5%.

The gap between the highest and lowest reporting country is a factor of about 82.

Over the past decade 122 countries rose and 67 fell. The largest increase was in Saint Lucia (up 377.8%), and the largest decrease in Azerbaijan (down 56.9%).

Value of imported goods as a share of GDP: full country ranking

#	Country	Latest	Year	10-year change	Trend
1	Liberia	636.6%	2014	down 38.4%	volatile
2	Tuvalu	299.0%	2014	up 130.8%	volatile
3	Djibouti	265.4%	2014	up 95.7%	volatile
4	Togo	236.3%	2014	up 188.9%	volatile
5	Aruba	228.9%	2011	up 85.4%	rising
6	Hong Kong	221.6%	2014	up 38.0%	rising
7	Saint Lucia	201.7%	2014	up 377.8%	volatile
9	Gambia	144.2%	2014	up 46.8%	rising
10	Bahamas	142.2%	2014	up 82.1%	volatile
11	Kyrgyzstan	141.2%	2014	up 127.6%	volatile
12	Singapore	119.6%	2014	down 21.4%	falling
13	Dominica	111.8%	2014	up 84.1%	rising
14	Kiribati	106.2%	2014	up 97.7%	volatile
15	Panama	105.8%	2014	down 17.1%	rising
16	Cambodia	104.4%	2014	up 87.6%	volatile
17	Lesotho	101.2%	2014	down 13.2%	rising
18	Latvia	100.6%	2014	up 72.4%	rising
19	Guinea	98.8%	2014	up 219.7%	volatile
20	Marshall Islands	96.4%	2014	up 50.8%	rising
21	Antigua and Barbuda	94.5%	2014	up 32.6%	rising
22	Seychelles	89.7%	2014	up 36.4%	rising
23	Vietnam	89.7%	2014	up 38.6%	volatile
24	Benin	87.9%	2014	up 125.4%	volatile
25	Belgium	84.3%	2014	up 9.4%	volatile
26	Saint Vincent and the Grenadines	82.9%	2014	down 14.6%	rising
27	Estonia	81.7%	2014	up 9.5%	rising
28	Slovakia	80.5%	2014	up 56.8%	rising
29	Saint Kitts and Nevis	79.1%	2014	down 1.8%	rising
30	Moldova	77.7%	2014	down 18.5%	rising
31	Vanuatu	76.2%	2014	up 21.0%	rising
32	Mauritania	75.4%	2014	up 24.7%	rising
33	Hungary	74.5%	2014	up 29.8%	volatile
34	Czechia	73.9%	2014	up 29.0%	rising
35	Mozambique	73.3%	2014	up 146.2%	rising
36	Netherlands	72.6%	2014	up 45.3%	volatile
37	Lithuania	72.3%	2014	up 32.4%	rising
38	Palau	71.7%	2014	up 17.2%	falling
39	Belize	69.8%	2014	up 33.6%	falling
40	Slovenia	68.7%	2014	up 28.9%	rising
41	East Timor	68.6%	2014	up 118.6%	rising
42	Laos	67.8%	2014	up 51.7%	rising
43	United Arab Emirates	67.2%	2014	up 31.1%	rising
44	Jordan	66.2%	2014	down 19.7%	rising
45	Grenada	63.6%	2014	up 41.4%	flat
46	North Macedonia	63.5%	2014	up 23.2%	rising
47	Tajikistan	62.8%	2014	up 9.4%	flat
48	Malaysia	62.7%	2014	down 25.1%	rising
49	Bermuda	60.3%	2013	down 51.2%	falling
50	Bulgaria	60.3%	2014	up 9.3%	volatile
51	Haiti	59.2%	2014	up 56.1%	volatile
52	Namibia	58.1%	2014	up 60.4%	rising
53	Thailand	56.4%	2014	up 3.3%	volatile
54	Samoa	56.4%	2014	down 17.9%	rising
55	Tonga	56.1%	2014	up 12.7%	falling
56	Georgia	55.9%	2014	up 40.5%	rising
57	Honduras	55.6%	2014	down 14.3%	volatile
58	Maldives	55.6%	2014	up 3.7%	falling
59	Tunisia	54.5%	2014	up 30.8%	rising
60	Syria	53.5%	2007	up 92.6%	rising
61	Nicaragua	53.5%	2014	up 28.4%	rising
62	Fiji	53.4%	2014	up 18.3%	falling
63	Guyana	53.3%	2014	down 29.4%	rising
64	Belarus	53.2%	2014	down 24.7%	rising
65	Senegal	51.9%	2014	up 46.2%	rising
66	Montenegro	51.6%	2014	down 0.7%	falling
67	Cyprus	49.6%	2014	down 35.5%	rising
68	Malawi	49.2%	2014	up 83.3%	rising
69	Botswana	48.8%	2014	up 35.3%	falling
70	Bosnia and Herzegovina	48.3%	2014	down 1.5%	falling
71	Barbados	48.2%	2014	up 14.8%	falling
72	Mongolia	48.1%	2014	down 7.9%	rising
73	Libya	46.5%	2014	up 88.2%	falling
74	Solomon Islands	45.6%	2014	up 7.1%	rising
75	Cape Verde	45.1%	2014	down 2.9%	falling
76	Lebanon	44.8%	2014	down 0.1%	falling
77	Ghana	44.5%	2014	down 24.3%	rising
78	Bahrain	44.4%	2014	up 11.7%	falling
79	Ukraine	44.2%	2014	down 8.1%	rising
80	Comoros	43.1%	2014	up 40.9%	flat
81	Yemen	43.0%	2013	up 18.6%	falling
82	Mauritius	42.8%	2014	down 1.6%	rising
83	El Salvador	42.0%	2014	up 4.7%	rising
84	Brunei	41.9%	2014	up 100.7%	volatile
85	Jamaica	41.8%	2014	up 7.3%	rising
86	Poland	41.8%	2014	up 20.1%	volatile
87	Faroe Islands	41.7%	2013	up 7.2%	rising
88	Guinea-Bissau	41.5%	2014	up 62.1%	falling
89	Morocco	41.5%	2014	up 38.8%	rising
90	Bhutan	41.4%	2014	down 29.3%	rising
91	Austria	41.0%	2014	up 2.5%	rising
93	Paraguay	40.2%	2014	up 9.4%	volatile
94	Afghanistan	39.8%	2014	down 3.5%	volatile
95	Croatia	39.4%	2014	down 1.2%	rising
96	Albania	39.2%	2014	up 25.1%	volatile
97	Romania	38.8%	2014	down 9.2%	volatile
98	Nepal	38.3%	2014	up 43.8%	rising
99	Congo	38.2%	2014	up 68.7%	falling
100	Greenland	38.0%	2014	up 2.4%	falling
101	Armenia	37.8%	2014	up 0.1%	falling
102	Myanmar	37.8%	2014	—	volatile
103	South Korea	37.2%	2014	up 26.9%	rising
104	Papua New Guinea	36.7%	2014	down 10.2%	rising
105	Switzerland	36.6%	2014	up 9.4%	falling
106	Eritrea	36.4%	2011	down 35.2%	falling
107	Eswatini	36.2%	2014	down 54.4%	flat
108	Oman	36.0%	2014	up 3.4%	falling
109	Zambia	35.8%	2014	up 3.5%	falling
110	Suriname	35.1%	2014	down 14.6%	volatile
111	Sao Tome and Principe	34.9%	2014	down 43.2%	flat
112	Costa Rica	34.7%	2014	down 22.0%	rising
113	Philippines	34.6%	2014	down 31.4%	rising
114	Zimbabwe	34.6%	2014	down 6.6%	falling
115	New Caledonia	34.4%	2000	up 16.2%	falling
116	Madagascar	34.4%	2014	down 25.2%	rising
117	Mexico	33.9%	2014	up 20.6%	volatile
118	Portugal	33.9%	2014	up 4.9%	volatile
119	Cote d'Ivoire	32.3%	2014	up 13.6%	rising
120	Tanzania	32.2%	2014	up 35.1%	rising
121	Bolivia	32.0%	2014	up 35.3%	rising
122	Iceland	31.5%	2014	up 16.6%	flat
123	Kenya	31.3%	2014	up 4.1%	falling
124	South Africa	31.3%	2014	up 37.7%	falling
125	Guatemala	31.1%	2014	down 20.7%	rising
126	Germany	31.1%	2014	up 22.0%	rising
127	Rwanda	31.1%	2014	up 46.3%	rising
128	Taiwan	30.7%	1938	up 24.7%	falling
130	Turkey	30.3%	2014	up 22.1%	rising
131	Ethiopia	29.9%	2014	up 18.6%	rising
132	Finland	29.5%	2014	up 2.7%	flat
133	Mali	29.4%	2014	down 15.0%	rising
134	Denmark	29.3%	2014	up 10.4%	rising
135	Dominican Republic	29.1%	2014	down 26.1%	rising
136	Central African Republic	28.6%	2014	up 79.8%	rising
137	Canada	28.4%	2014	down 2.8%	rising
138	Sweden	28.2%	2014	up 7.4%	rising
139	French Polynesia	28.2%	2000	down 3.7%	falling
140	Chile	27.9%	2014	up 13.5%	rising
141	Sierra Leone	27.5%	2014	down 25.0%	rising
142	Algeria	27.3%	2014	up 23.5%	falling
143	Niger	27.3%	2014	up 11.1%	rising
144	Ecuador	27.3%	2014	up 37.0%	volatile
145	Greece	26.7%	2014	up 22.1%	falling
146	Iraq	26.4%	2014	down 54.6%	rising
147	Trinidad and Tobago	26.4%	2014	down 29.9%	falling
148	Spain	25.7%	2014	up 6.5%	volatile
149	Chad	25.1%	2014	up 16.5%	volatile
150	Egypt	25.1%	2014	down 12.0%	rising
151	Pakistan	24.4%	2014	up 20.6%	rising
152	Cameroon	24.4%	2014	up 71.5%	flat
153	Uruguay	24.2%	2014	down 7.9%	falling
154	Bangladesh	24.1%	2014	up 35.3%	rising
155	France	24.1%	2014	up 8.5%	rising
156	Sri Lanka	24.0%	2014	down 38.0%	rising
157	Macao	23.7%	2014	down 27.7%	falling
158	Israel	23.6%	2014	down 22.1%	rising
159	Uzbekistan	23.3%	2014	down 11.5%	rising
160	United Kingdom	23.1%	2014	up 15.0%	falling
161	Peru	23.0%	2014	up 42.7%	rising
162	Turkmenistan	23.0%	2014	down 41.4%	falling
163	Italy	22.8%	2014	up 15.3%	rising
164	Iran	22.7%	2014	up 15.7%	rising
165	Gabon	22.6%	2014	up 9.9%	falling
166	India	22.5%	2014	up 63.0%	volatile
167	Saudi Arabia	22.5%	2014	up 30.1%	rising
168	Democratic Republic of Congo	22.4%	2014	up 64.5%	rising
169	Burkina Faso	22.2%	2014	up 6.1%	rising
170	Angola	21.9%	2014	down 39.0%	rising
171	Uganda	21.7%	2014	down 0.0%	rising
172	New Zealand	21.1%	2014	down 4.9%	falling
173	Indonesia	20.7%	2014	down 20.6%	volatile
174	Azerbaijan	20.5%	2014	down 56.9%	falling
175	Kuwait	19.3%	2014	down 10.5%	flat
176	Kazakhstan	19.2%	2014	down 39.5%	flat
177	Cuba	19.2%	2013	up 47.2%	falling
178	China	19.0%	2014	down 34.3%	volatile
179	Japan	17.7%	2014	up 80.9%	rising
180	Norway	17.5%	2014	down 4.5%	rising
181	Equatorial Guinea	17.3%	2014	up 3.2%	volatile
182	Australia	17.2%	2014	down 7.5%	falling
183	Colombia	16.9%	2014	up 20.1%	falling
184	Venezuela	15.7%	2013	up 52.8%	falling
185	Qatar	14.4%	2014	down 41.0%	falling
186	Russia	14.1%	2014	down 18.2%	volatile
187	United States	13.5%	2014	up 8.9%	rising
188	Burundi	13.0%	2014	up 34.5%	rising
189	Sudan	12.5%	2014	down 37.0%	falling
190	Argentina	11.9%	2014	down 3.5%	volatile
191	Nigeria	11.7%	2014	down 50.0%	rising
192	Brazil	10.4%	2014	up 0.9%	volatile
193	North Korea	7.8%	1992	down 32.5%	flat

About this data

Indicator: Value of imported goods as a share of GDP
Unit: %
Source: Fouquin and Hugot (2016) – processed by Our World in Data
Licence: CC BY 4.0 (Our World in Data)
Coverage: 193 places, 12,772 data points, 1827–2014
Last refreshed: 07 August 2026

Estimates correspond to merchandise import-to-GDP ratios for countries and regions. All ratios are taken at current prices. See source for more details.