United Nations Conference on Trade and Development

UNCTAD's Bilateral FDI Statistics provides up-to-date and systematic FDI data for 206 economies around the world, covering inflows (table 1), outflows (table 2), inward stock (table 3) and outward stock (table 4) by region and economy. Data are in principle collected from national sources. In order to cover the entire world, where data are not available from national sources, data from partner countries (mirror data) as well as from other international organizations have also been used.

This table shows exchange rates for currencies used in over 190 world economies presented in a cross rates layout where countries are presented in both rows and columns. National currency per US dollars exchange rates are used to derive explicit exchange rates for each of the countries presented with regard to any other country. Country series are consistent over time: for example, a conversion was made from national currency to Euro for the Euro Zone economies for all years prior to the adoption of Euro.

This table presents trade in services by service category for individual countries, expressed in millions of dollars and as percentages of a country's total trade in services. The commercial services, which exclude government services and follow the GATS definition, are included as well.

This table is a compilation of statistics of trade in goods and services as reported in the Balance of Payments. The conceptual framework used for the compilation is based on the IMF Balance of Payments Manual (BPM5, 1993).

This table is a compilation of statistics of trade in goods and services as reported in the Balance of Payments. The conceptual framework used for the compilation is based on the IMF Balance of Payments Manual (BPM5, 1993).

This table shows indicators of trade balances as the following: - Normalized trade balance, - Trade balance as percentage of imports and, - Trade balance as percentage of nominal gross domestic product (GDP). Normalized trade balance of goods and services is defined as the trade balance (total exports less total imports) divided by the total trade (exports plus imports).  

This table shows exports, imports and sum/average of exports and imports as percentage of nominal gross domestic product (GDP). The indicators are calculated for trade in goods, trade in services and total trade in goods and services.

This table shows indicators of trade balances as the following: - Normalized trade balance, - Trade balance as percentage of imports and, - Trade balance as percentage of nominal gross domestic product (GDP).

This table shows exports, imports and sum/average of exports and imports as percentage of nominal gross domestic product (GDP). The indicators are calculated for trade in goods, trade in services and total trade in goods and services.

Time series on international reserves (including gold), by individual country, expressed in millions of dollars. It further presents the number of months of merchandise imports that these reserves could finance at current imports level, as well as annual changes in total reserves.

This table contains information on foreign direct investment (FDI) inflows and outflows by individual country, geographical region and economic grouping, expressed in millions of dollars. Additional calculations present: FDI world shares, FDI values per capita, and FDI percentage ratios with respect to GDP, gross fixed capital formation (GFCF), and total exports and imports of merchandise and services. This table also contains information on foreign direct investment (FDI) inward and outward stock by individual country, geographical region and economic grouping, expressed in millions of dollars, as FDI world shares, as FDI values per capita, and as FDI percentage ratios with respect to GDP

This Dataset provides information on number of exported/imported products, concentration and diversification indices by country. The concentration index shows how exports and imports of individual countries or group of countries are concentrated on several products or otherwise distributed in a more homogeneous manner among a series of products. The diversification index signals whether the structure of exports or imports by product of a given country or group of countries differ from the structure of product of the world.1. Concentration index:Concentration index, also knows as Herfindahl-Hirschmann Index (Product HHI), is a measure of the degree of product concentration. An index value closer to 1 indicates a country's exports or imports are highly concentrated on a few products. On the contrary, values closer to 0 reflect exports or imports are more homogeneously distributed among a series of products.2. Diversification index:The diversification index is computed by measuring the absolute deviation of the trade structure of a country from world structure. The diversification index takes values between 0 and 1. A value closer to 1 indicates greater divergence of export and import from the world pattern. On the contrary closer to 0 indicates no divergence from the world pattern.

This table shows the value of total merchandise exports and imports by individual country, geographical region, economic grouping and trade group, expressed in millions of dollars and as a percentage of the world total.

This table presents merchandise trade complementarity index which assesses the suitability of preferential trade agreement between two economies given the structure of one potential partners’ exports match the imports of the other potential partner. Changes over time may indicate whether the trade profiles are becoming more or less compatible.

This dataset presents merchandise trade by trading partner and product based on three digit level SITC Revision 3 commodity classification, expressed in thousands of dollars. In addition, data are also summarized by geographical region, economic and trade grouping, for both reporting country and its trading partner, and by product grouping.

This dataset presents merchandise trade by trading partner and product based on SITC, Rev.3 commodity classification (the most detailed level is two digit), expressed in thousands of dollars. In addition, data are also summarized by geographical region and economic grouping, for both reporting country and its trading partner, and by product grouping.

This table presents merchandise trade by trading partner expressed in thousands of dollars

Data on the world merchant fleet by flag of registration and by type of ship, highlighting the group of major open-registry countries. Data are presented in thousands of dead-weight tons (DWT), as world shares, and as percentages of a ship-type in an economy's fleet. Dead weight tonnage is a measure of how much vessels can transport.

The data presents time series on receipts and payments of personal remittances in millions of dollars. The data is also shown as percentage of exports (receipts) and imports (payments) of goods and services, and as percentage of GDP.Personal remittances is defined as the sum of two items: (1) compensation of employees, defined as the income of non-resident workers employed in an economy and of residents employed by nonresident employers; (2) personal (current) transfers, defined as current transfers in kind or in cash, between resident and nonresident households. These are the two items in the balance of payments framework that substantially relate to remittances. Both are standard components in the current account. A broader definition of personal remittances would also include capital transfers between resident and nonresident households. However, capital transfers is a supplementary component in the capital account. As a result data coverage on capital transfers is much sparse than the other two items.The data on compensation of employees, personal transfers and capital transfers between households have been collected by the IMF from national agencies or, in cases of non-availability, estimated by the IMF.

This table provides information on terms of trade and purchasing power indices which are calculated at the level of individual countries, geographical regions, and economic groupings. See notes below for explanations of each indicator.

UNCTAD ranks the largest non-financial TNCs by their foreign assets and presents data on assets, sales and employment

This table provides estimates from 1950 to 2015 and projections from 2016 to 2050 (Medium Variant), of total population and urban population, expressed in thousands and as a percentage of total population, respectively.

Estimates and forecasts on labour force data: (1) Total labour force and female labour force, expressed in thousands (2) Total agriculture labour force and female labour force, expressed in thousands.

This table presents trade in services by service category for individual countries, expressed in millions of dollars and as percentages of a country's total trade in services. The commercial services, which exclude government services and follow the GATS definition, are included as well.

The table presents the latest quarterly statistics for total services exports and imports, in millions of dollars, for individual countries, for which the data are available. Quarterly figures for commercial services, which exclude government services, are included as a memo item. Also shown are the year-on-year percentage changes. The data presented are the result of the common work of World Trade Organization (WTO) and UNCTAD, and are published simultaneously by both organizations. (WTO statistics database)

This table presents total trade in services by individual country, geographical region and economic grouping, expressed in millions of dollars, as percentages of the world total and as percentages of a country's or a group's total trade in both merchandise and services.

Volume growth rates of merchandise exports and imports

The World Investment Report focuses on trends in foreign direct investment (FDI) worldwide, at the regional and country levels and emerging measures to improve its contribution to development. Every issue of the Report has: Analysis of the trends in FDI during the previous year, with especial emphasis on the development implications. Ranking of the largest transnational corporations in the world. In-depth analysis of a selected topic related to FDI. Policy analysis and recommendations. Statistical annex with data on FDI flows and stocks for 196 economies.