How has trade between economies evolved over time?
Over the past few years, leading economies have reconfigured their main trading partners. Explore for which economies and for which sectors trading partners are changing in this shifting trade landscape.
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World’s top trading partners over time
See how World’s exports of all goods with its top 5 trading partners have evolved since 1995.
United States
China (Mainland)
Germany
Netherlands
France
Notes
Trade on a regional level excludes trade between countries belonging to the same region. Top 5 trade partners are selected based on most recent year of data. Trade partner value is visualized as zero for years that have missing data. See technical appendix for details on how “Not specified” trade partners are treated.
Source: UN Comtrade (Refreshed 2025-01-30)
Exported value-added of all goods
See where the value-added of World’s all goods exports goes to and how it changes over time. Value-added is the additional value generated by an industry less the value of the inputs used.
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Notes
Excludes domestic value-added trade. Data not available for regional aggregations. Value-added is different to gross trade, which is the default view shown across all other visualizations. While gross trade accounts for the full value of a product or service each time it crosses borders, including the cost of inputs and the value each country adds to it, value-added only accounts for the latter.
Source: OECD TIVA Origin of Value Added in Final Demand (Refreshed: 2024-11-28)
