Trade (% of GDP) - NE.TRD.GNFS.ZS

Data - WDI

Author

François Geerolf

Last observation: 2025 (N = 170)

First observation: 1960 (N = 81)

Last data update: 04 sept. 2026, 00:25

Last compile: 04 sept. 2026, 00:35

Nobs - Javascript

Code 
NE.TRD.GNFS.ZS |>
  left_join(iso2c, by = "iso2c") |>
  group_by(iso2c, Iso2c) |>
  mutate(value = round(value, 2)) |>
  summarise(Nobs = n(),
            `Year 1` = first(year),
            `NX 1 (%)` = first(value),
            `Year 2` = last(year),
            `NX 2 (%)` = last(value)) |>
  arrange(-Nobs) |>
  mutate(Flag = gsub(" ", "-", str_to_lower(Iso2c)),
         Flag = paste0('<img src="../../bib/flags/vsmall/', Flag, '.png" alt="Flag">')) |>
  select(Flag, everything()) %>%
  {if (is_html_output()) datatable(., filter = 'top', rownames = F, escape = F) else .}

France, Germany, Italy

Code 
NE.TRD.GNFS.ZS |>
  filter(iso2c %in% c("IT", "FR", "DE")) |>
  left_join(iso2c, by = "iso2c") |>
  year_to_date() |>
  add_flag_color("Iso2c") |>
  mutate(value = value/100) |>
  ggplot() + geom_line(aes(x = date, y = value, color = color)) +
  xlab("") + ylab("Trade (% of GDP)") +
  theme_minimal() + scale_color_identity() + add_flags +
  scale_x_date(breaks = seq(1950, 2100, 5) |> paste0("-01-01") |> as.Date(),
               labels = date_format("%Y")) +
  scale_y_continuous(breaks = 0.01*seq(-60, 120, 5),
                     labels = scales::percent_format(accuracy = 1))

Germany, France, Switzerland

Code 
NE.TRD.GNFS.ZS |>
  left_join(iso2c, by = "iso2c") |>
  year_to_date() |>
  filter(iso2c %in% c("CH", "FR", "DE"),
         date >= as.Date("1970-01-01")) |>
  add_flag_color("Iso2c") |>
  mutate(value = value/100) |>
  ggplot() + geom_line(aes(x = date, y = value, color = color)) +
  xlab("") + ylab("Trade (% of GDP)") +
  theme_minimal() + scale_color_identity() + add_flags +
  scale_x_date(breaks = seq(1950, 2100, 5) |> paste0("-01-01") |> as.Date(),
               labels = date_format("%Y")) +
  scale_y_continuous(breaks = 0.01*seq(-60, 150, 5),
                     labels = scales::percent_format(accuracy = 1))

France, Germany, United States, World, China

Code 
NE.TRD.GNFS.ZS |>
  filter(iso2c %in% c("US", "FR", "DE", "CN", "1W")) |>
  left_join(iso2c, by = "iso2c") |>
  year_to_date() |>
  add_flag_color("Iso2c") |>
  mutate(value = value/100) |>
  ggplot() + geom_line(aes(x = date, y = value, color = color)) +
  xlab("") + ylab("Trade (% of GDP)") +
  theme_minimal() + scale_color_identity() + add_flags +
  scale_x_date(breaks = seq(1950, 2100, 5) |> paste0("-01-01") |> as.Date(),
               labels = date_format("%Y")) +
  scale_y_continuous(breaks = 0.01*seq(-60, 120, 5),
                     labels = scales::percent_format(accuracy = 1))

France, Germany, United States, World, China, India, Russia

Code 
NE.TRD.GNFS.ZS |>
  filter(iso2c %in% c("US", "FR", "DE", "CN", "1W", "IN", "RU")) |>
  left_join(iso2c, by = "iso2c") |>
  mutate(Iso2c = ifelse(iso2c == "RU", "Russia", Iso2c)) |>
  year_to_date() |>
  add_flag_color("Iso2c") |>
  mutate(value = value/100) |>
  ggplot() + geom_line(aes(x = date, y = value, color = color)) +
  xlab("") + ylab("Trade (% of GDP)") +
  theme_minimal() + scale_color_identity() + add_flags +
  scale_x_date(breaks = seq(1950, 2100, 5) |> paste0("-01-01") |> as.Date(),
               labels = date_format("%Y")) +
  scale_y_continuous(breaks = 0.01*seq(-60, 120, 5),
                     labels = scales::percent_format(accuracy = 1))

Europe, United States

Code 
NE.TRD.GNFS.ZS |>
  filter(iso2c %in% c("US", "EU", "DE", "1W", "CN")) |>
  left_join(iso2c, by = "iso2c") |>
  mutate(Iso2c = ifelse(iso2c == "RU", "Russia", Iso2c)) |>
  year_to_date() |>
  add_flag_color("Iso2c") |>
  mutate(value = value/100) |>
  ggplot() + geom_line(aes(x = date, y = value, color = color)) +
  xlab("") + ylab("Trade (% of GDP)") +
  theme_minimal() + scale_color_identity() + add_flags +
  scale_x_date(breaks = seq(1950, 2100, 5) |> paste0("-01-01") |> as.Date(),
               labels = date_format("%Y")) +
  scale_y_continuous(breaks = 0.01*seq(-60, 120, 5),
                     labels = scales::percent_format(accuracy = 1))

France, Germany, United States, China, India, Russia

Code 
NE.TRD.GNFS.ZS |>
  filter(iso2c %in% c("US", "FR", "DE", "CN", "IN", "RU")) |>
  left_join(iso2c, by = "iso2c") |>
  mutate(Iso2c = ifelse(iso2c == "RU", "Russia", Iso2c)) |>
  year_to_date() |>
  add_flag_color("Iso2c") |>
  mutate(value = value/100) |>
  ggplot() + geom_line(aes(x = date, y = value, color = color)) +
  xlab("") + ylab("Trade (% of GDP)") +
  theme_minimal() + scale_color_identity() + add_flags +
  scale_x_date(breaks = seq(1950, 2100, 5) |> paste0("-01-01") |> as.Date(),
               labels = date_format("%Y")) +
  scale_y_continuous(breaks = 0.01*seq(-60, 120, 5),
                     labels = scales::percent_format(accuracy = 1))