Merchandise exports (current USD) - TX.VAL.MRCH.CD.WT

Data - WDI

Author

François Geerolf

Last observation: 2025 (N = 252)

First observation: 1960 (N = 201)

Last data update: 04 sept. 2026, 00:28

Last compile: 04 sept. 2026, 00:44

Nobs - Javascript

Code 
TX.VAL.MRCH.CD.WT |>
  left_join(iso2c, by = "iso2c") |>
  group_by(iso2c, Iso2c) |>
  mutate(value = round(value/(10^9))) %>%
  summarise(Nobs = n(),
            `Year 1` = first(year),
            `GDP 1 (Bn)` = first(value) %>% paste0("$ ", .),
            `Year 2` = last(year),
            `GDP 2 (Bn)` = last(value) %>% paste0("$ ", .)) |>
  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 .}

2018 GDP by Country

Code 
TX.VAL.MRCH.CD.WT |>
  right_join(iso2c |>
              filter((region != "Aggregates") & (region != "NA")), 
             by = "iso2c") |>
  group_by(iso2c, Iso2c) |>
  mutate(value = round(value/(10^9))) |>
  summarise(`GDP (Bn)` = last(value)) |>
  arrange(-`GDP (Bn)`) %>%
  mutate(`GDP (Bn)` = `GDP (Bn)` %>% paste0("$ ", ., " Bn")) |>
  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 .}

2018 GDP by Country and Aggregates

Code 
TX.VAL.MRCH.CD.WT |>
  right_join(iso2c, by = "iso2c") |>
  group_by(iso2c, Iso2c) |>
  mutate(value = round(value/(10^9))) |>
  summarise(`GDP (Bn)` = last(value)) |>
  arrange(-`GDP (Bn)`) %>%
  mutate(`GDP (Bn)` = `GDP (Bn)` %>% paste0("$ ", ., " Bn")) %>%
  {if (is_html_output()) datatable(., filter = 'top', rownames = F) else .}

Illustration

Netherlands, Belgium, Switzerland, Turkey, Poland, Sweden

Code 
TX.VAL.MRCH.CD.WT |>
  right_join(iso2c, by = "iso2c") |>
  filter(iso2c %in% c("1W", "CH", "BE", "NL", "PO", "SE", "TR")) |>
  year_to_date() |>
  group_by(date) |>
  mutate(value = value/value[iso2c == "1W"]) |>
  filter(!(iso2c == "1W")) |>
  add_flag_color("Iso2c") |>
  ggplot() + theme_minimal() + scale_color_identity() + xlab("") + ylab("% of Merchandise exports") +
  geom_line(aes(x = date, y = value, color = color)) +
  geom_image(data = . %>%
               filter(date == as.Date("1967-01-01")) %>%
               mutate(image = paste0("../../icon/flag/", str_to_lower(gsub(" ", "-", Iso2c)), ".png")),
             aes(x = date, y = value, image = image), asp = 1.5) +
  scale_x_date(breaks = seq(1950, 2100, 5) |> paste0("-01-01") |> as.Date(),
               labels = date_format("%Y")) +
  scale_y_continuous(breaks = 0.01*seq(0, 70, 0.2),
                     labels = scales::percent_format(accuracy = .1),
                     limits = 0.01*c(0, 2))

Germany, France, Italy, United Kingdom, Spain

Code 
TX.VAL.MRCH.CD.WT |>
  right_join(iso2c, by = "iso2c") |>
  filter(iso2c %in% c("1W", "DE", "FR", "IT", "ES", "GB")) |>
  year_to_date() |>
  group_by(date) |>
  mutate(value = value/value[iso2c == "1W"]) |>
  filter(!(iso2c == "1W")) |>
  add_flag_color("Iso2c") |>
  ggplot() + theme_minimal() + scale_color_identity() + xlab("") + ylab("% of Merchandise exports") +
  geom_line(aes(x = date, y = value, color = color)) +
  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(0, 70, 2),
                     labels = scales::percent_format(accuracy = 1))

Brazil, Mexico, Argentina

Code 
TX.VAL.MRCH.CD.WT |>
  right_join(iso2c, by = "iso2c") |>
  filter(iso2c %in% c("1W", "BR", "MX", "AR")) |>
  year_to_date() |>
  group_by(date) |>
  mutate(value = value/value[iso2c == "1W"]) |>
  filter(!(iso2c == "1W")) |>
  add_flag_color("Iso2c") |>
  ggplot() + theme_minimal() + scale_color_identity() + xlab("") + ylab("% of Merchandise exports") +
  geom_line(aes(x = date, y = value, color = color)) +
  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(0, 70, 0.5),
                     labels = scales::percent_format(accuracy = .1))

China, E.U., U.S.

All

Code 
TX.VAL.MRCH.CD.WT |>
  right_join(iso2c, by = "iso2c") |>
  filter(iso2c %in% c("1W", "US", "CN", "EU")) |>
  group_by(year) |>
  mutate(value = value/value[iso2c == "1W"]) |>
  year_to_date() |>
  filter(!(iso2c == "1W")) |>
  mutate(Iso2c = ifelse(iso2c == "EU", "Europe", Iso2c)) |>
  add_flag_color("Iso2c") |>
  ggplot() + theme_minimal() + scale_color_identity() +
  geom_line(aes(x = date, y = value, color = color)) +
  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(0, 70, 5),
                     labels = scales::percent_format(accuracy = 1)) + 
  xlab("") + ylab("% des exportations mondiales")

1990-

Code 
TX.VAL.MRCH.CD.WT |>
  right_join(iso2c, by = "iso2c") |>
  filter(iso2c %in% c("1W", "US", "CN", "EU")) |>
  group_by(year) |>
  mutate(value = value/value[iso2c == "1W"]) |>
  year_to_date() |>
  filter(!(iso2c == "1W")) |>
  mutate(Iso2c = ifelse(iso2c == "EU", "Europe", Iso2c)) |>
  filter(date >= as.Date("1990-01-01")) |>
  add_flag_color("Iso2c") |>
  ggplot() + theme_minimal() + scale_color_identity() +
  geom_line(aes(x = date, y = value, color = color)) +
  add_flags +
  theme(legend.title = element_blank(),
        legend.position = c(0.85, 0.85)) +
  scale_x_date(breaks = seq(1950, 2100, 5) |> paste0("-01-01") |> as.Date(),
               labels = date_format("%Y")) +
  scale_y_continuous(breaks = 0.01*seq(0, 70, 2),
                     labels = scales::percent_format(accuracy = 1)) + 
  xlab("") + ylab("% of Merchandise exports")

1995-

Code 
TX.VAL.MRCH.CD.WT |>
  right_join(iso2c, by = "iso2c") |>
  filter(iso2c %in% c("1W", "US", "CN", "EU")) |>
  group_by(year) |>
  mutate(value = value/value[iso2c == "1W"]) |>
  year_to_date() |>
  filter(!(iso2c == "1W")) |>
  mutate(Iso2c = ifelse(iso2c == "EU", "Europe", Iso2c)) |>
  filter(date >= as.Date("1995-01-01")) |>
  add_flag_color("Iso2c") |>
  ggplot() + theme_minimal() + scale_color_identity() +
  geom_line(aes(x = date, y = value, color = color)) +
  add_flags +
  theme(legend.title = element_blank(),
        legend.position = c(0.85, 0.85)) +
  scale_x_date(breaks = seq(1950, 2100, 5) |> paste0("-01-01") |> as.Date(),
               labels = date_format("%Y")) +
  scale_y_continuous(breaks = 0.01*seq(0, 70, 2),
                     labels = scales::percent_format(accuracy = 1)) + 
  xlab("") + ylab("% du PIB mondial")

1996-

Code 
TX.VAL.MRCH.CD.WT |>
  right_join(iso2c, by = "iso2c") |>
  filter(iso2c %in% c("1W", "US", "CN", "EU")) |>
  group_by(year) |>
  mutate(value = value/value[iso2c == "1W"]) |>
  year_to_date() |>
  filter(!(iso2c == "1W")) |>
  mutate(Iso2c = ifelse(iso2c == "EU", "Europe", Iso2c)) |>
  filter(date >= as.Date("1996-01-01")) |>
  add_flag_color("Iso2c") |>
  ggplot() + theme_minimal() + scale_color_identity() +
  geom_line(aes(x = date, y = value, color = color)) +
  add_flags +
  theme(legend.title = element_blank(),
        legend.position = c(0.85, 0.85)) +
  scale_x_date(breaks = seq(1996, 2100, 5) |> paste0("-01-01") |> as.Date(),
               labels = date_format("%Y")) +
  scale_y_continuous(breaks = 0.01*seq(0, 70, 2),
                     labels = scales::percent_format(accuracy = 1),
                     limits = 0.01*c(0, 35)) + 
  xlab("") + ylab("% du PIB mondial")

2005-

Code 
TX.VAL.MRCH.CD.WT |>
  right_join(iso2c, by = "iso2c") |>
  filter(iso2c %in% c("1W", "US", "CN", "EU")) |>
  group_by(year) |>
  mutate(value = value/value[iso2c == "1W"]) |>
  year_to_date() |>
  filter(!(iso2c == "1W")) |>
  mutate(Iso2c = ifelse(iso2c == "EU", "Europe", Iso2c)) |>
  filter(date >= as.Date("2005-01-01")) |>
  add_flag_color("Iso2c") |>
  ggplot() + theme_minimal() + scale_color_identity() +
  geom_line(aes(x = date, y = value, color = color)) +
  add_flags +
  theme(legend.title = element_blank(),
        legend.position = c(0.85, 0.85)) +
  scale_x_date(breaks = seq(1950, 2100, 2) |> paste0("-01-01") |> as.Date(),
               labels = date_format("%Y")) +
  scale_y_continuous(breaks = 0.01*seq(0, 70, 5),
                     labels = scales::percent_format(accuracy = 1),
                     limits = 0.01*c(0, 30)) + 
  xlab("") + ylab("% of Merchandise exports")

South Korea, Russia, Indonesia

Code 
TX.VAL.MRCH.CD.WT |>
  right_join(iso2c, by = "iso2c") |>
  filter(iso2c %in% c("1W", "ID", "KR", "RU")) |>
  group_by(year) |>
  mutate(value = value/value[iso2c == "1W"]) |>
  year_to_date() |>
  filter(!(iso2c == "1W")) |>
  mutate(Iso2c = ifelse(iso2c == "KR", "South Korea", Iso2c)) |>
  mutate(Iso2c = ifelse(iso2c == "RU", "Russia", Iso2c)) |>
  add_flag_color("Iso2c") |>
  ggplot() + theme_minimal() + scale_color_identity() + xlab("") + ylab("% of Merchandise exports") +
  geom_line(aes(x = date, y = value, color = color)) +
  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(0, 70, 1),
                     labels = scales::percent_format(accuracy = 1),
                     limits = 0.01*c(0, 4))

Japan, India, United Kingdom

Code 
TX.VAL.MRCH.CD.WT |>
  right_join(iso2c, by = "iso2c") |>
  filter(iso2c %in% c("1W", "IN", "JP", "GB")) |>
  group_by(year) |>
  mutate(value = value/value[iso2c == "1W"]) |>
  year_to_date() |>
  filter(!(iso2c == "1W")) |>
  add_flag_color("Iso2c") |>
  ggplot() + theme_minimal() + scale_color_identity() +
  geom_line(aes(x = date, y = value, color = color)) +
  add_flags +
  theme(legend.title = element_blank(),
        legend.position = c(0.85, 0.85)) +
  scale_x_date(breaks = seq(1950, 2100, 5) |> paste0("-01-01") |> as.Date(),
               labels = date_format("%Y")) +
  scale_y_continuous(breaks = 0.01*seq(0, 70, 2),
                     labels = scales::percent_format(accuracy = 1),
                     limits = 0.01*c(0, 20)) + 
  xlab("") + ylab("% of Merchandise exports")

Germany, France, Italy

Code 
TX.VAL.MRCH.CD.WT |>
  right_join(iso2c, by = "iso2c") |>
  filter(iso2c %in% c("1W", "DE", "FR", "IT")) |>
  group_by(year) |>
  mutate(value = value/value[iso2c == "1W"]) |>
  year_to_date() |>
  filter(!(iso2c == "1W")) |>
  add_flag_color("Iso2c") |>
  ggplot() + theme_minimal() + scale_color_identity() +
  geom_line(aes(x = date, y = value, color = color)) +
  add_flags +
  theme(legend.title = element_blank(),
        legend.position = c(0.85, 0.85)) +
  scale_x_date(breaks = seq(1950, 2100, 5) |> paste0("-01-01") |> as.Date(),
               labels = date_format("%Y")) +
  scale_y_continuous(breaks = 0.01*seq(0, 70, 2),
                     labels = scales::percent_format(accuracy = 1),
                     limits = 0.01*c(0, 10)) + 
  xlab("") + ylab("% of Merchandise exports")

Eurozone, United States

All

Code 
TX.VAL.MRCH.CD.WT |>
  right_join(iso2c, by = "iso2c") |>
  filter(iso2c %in% c("1W", "XC", "US")) |>
  group_by(year) |>
  mutate(value = value/value[iso2c == "1W"]) |>
  year_to_date() |>
  filter(!(iso2c == "1W")) |>
  mutate(Iso2c = ifelse(iso2c == "XC", "Europe", Iso2c)) |>
  add_flag_color("Iso2c") |>
  ggplot() + theme_minimal() + scale_color_identity() +
  geom_line(aes(x = date, y = value, color = color)) +
  add_flags +
  theme(legend.title = element_blank(),
        legend.position = c(0.85, 0.85)) +
  scale_x_date(breaks = seq(1950, 2100, 5) |> paste0("-01-01") |> as.Date(),
               labels = date_format("%Y")) +
  scale_y_continuous(breaks = 0.01*seq(0, 70, 5),
                     labels = scales::percent_format(accuracy = 1),
                     limits = 0.01*c(0, 50)) + 
  xlab("") + ylab("% of Merchandise exports")

1990-

Code 
TX.VAL.MRCH.CD.WT |>
  right_join(iso2c, by = "iso2c") |>
  filter(iso2c %in% c("1W", "XC", "US")) |>
  group_by(year) |>
  mutate(value = value/value[iso2c == "1W"]) |>
  year_to_date() |>
  filter(!(iso2c == "1W"),
         date >= as.Date("1990-01-01")) |>
  mutate(Iso2c = ifelse(iso2c == "XC", "Europe", Iso2c)) |>
  add_flag_color("Iso2c") |>
  ggplot() + theme_minimal() + scale_color_identity() +
  geom_line(aes(x = date, y = value, color = color)) +
  add_flags +
  theme(legend.title = element_blank(),
        legend.position = c(0.85, 0.85)) +
  scale_x_date(breaks = seq(1950, 2100, 5) |> paste0("-01-01") |> as.Date(),
               labels = date_format("%Y")) +
  scale_y_continuous(breaks = 0.01*seq(0, 70, 5),
                     labels = scales::percent_format(accuracy = 1),
                     limits = 0.01*c(0, 35)) + 
  xlab("") + ylab("% of Merchandise exports")

2005-

Code 
TX.VAL.MRCH.CD.WT |>
  right_join(iso2c, by = "iso2c") |>
  filter(iso2c %in% c("1W", "XC", "US")) |>
  group_by(year) |>
  mutate(value = value/value[iso2c == "1W"]) |>
  year_to_date() |>
  filter(!(iso2c == "1W"),
         date >= as.Date("2005-01-01")) |>
  mutate(Iso2c = ifelse(iso2c == "XC", "Europe", Iso2c)) |>
  add_flag_color("Iso2c") |>
  ggplot() + theme_minimal() + scale_color_identity() + add_flags +
  geom_line(aes(x = date, y = value, color = color)) +
  scale_x_date(breaks = seq(1950, 2100, 1) |> paste0("-01-01") |> as.Date(),
               labels = date_format("%Y")) +
  scale_y_continuous(breaks = 0.01*seq(0, 70, 5),
                     labels = scales::percent_format(accuracy = 1),
                     limits = 0.01*c(0, 35)) + 
  xlab("") + ylab("% of Merchandise exports")

Germany, Japan, United Kingdom

Code 
TX.VAL.MRCH.CD.WT |>
  right_join(iso2c, by = "iso2c") |>
  filter(iso2c %in% c("1W", "JP", "DE", "GB")) |>
  group_by(year) |>
  mutate(value = value/value[iso2c == "1W"]) |>
  year_to_date() |>
  filter(!(iso2c == "1W")) |>
  add_flag_color("Iso2c") |>
  ggplot() + theme_minimal() + scale_color_identity() +
  geom_line(aes(x = date, y = value, color = color)) +
  add_flags +
  theme(legend.title = element_blank(),
        legend.position = c(0.85, 0.85)) +
  scale_x_date(breaks = seq(1950, 2100, 5) |> paste0("-01-01") |> as.Date(),
               labels = date_format("%Y")) +
  scale_y_continuous(breaks = 0.01*seq(0, 70, 3),
                     labels = scales::percent_format(accuracy = 1),
                     limits = 0.01*c(0, 20)) + 
  xlab("") + ylab("% of Merchandise exports")

United Kingdom, France, Italy

Code 
TX.VAL.MRCH.CD.WT |>
  right_join(iso2c, by = "iso2c") |>
  filter(iso2c %in% c("1W", "GB", "FR", "IT")) |>
  group_by(year) |>
  mutate(value = value/value[iso2c == "1W"]) |>
  year_to_date() |>
  filter(!(iso2c == "1W")) |>
  add_flag_color("Iso2c") |>
  ggplot() + theme_minimal() + scale_color_identity() +
  geom_line(aes(x = date, y = value, color = color)) +
  add_flags +
  theme(legend.title = element_blank(),
        legend.position = c(0.85, 0.85)) +
  scale_x_date(breaks = seq(1950, 2100, 5) |> paste0("-01-01") |> as.Date(),
               labels = date_format("%Y")) +
  scale_y_continuous(breaks = 0.01*seq(0, 70, 1),
                     labels = scales::percent_format(accuracy = 1),
                     limits = 0.01*c(0, 8)) + 
  xlab("") + ylab("% of Merchandise exports")

Brazil, Russia, India

Code 
TX.VAL.MRCH.CD.WT |>
  right_join(iso2c, by = "iso2c") |>
  filter(iso2c %in% c("1W", "BR", "RU", "IN")) |>
  group_by(year) |>
  mutate(value = value/value[iso2c == "1W"]) |>
  year_to_date() |>
  filter(!(iso2c == "1W")) |>
  mutate(Iso2c = ifelse(iso2c == "RU", "Russia", Iso2c)) |>
  add_flag_color("Iso2c") |>
  ggplot() + theme_minimal() + scale_color_identity() +
  geom_line(aes(x = date, y = value, color = color)) +
  add_flags +
  theme(legend.title = element_blank(),
        legend.position = c(0.3, 0.85)) +
  scale_x_date(breaks = seq(1950, 2100, 5) |> paste0("-01-01") |> as.Date(),
               labels = date_format("%Y")) +
  scale_y_continuous(breaks = 0.01*seq(0, 70, 1),
                     labels = scales::percent_format(accuracy = 1),
                     limits = 0.01*c(0, 5)) + 
  xlab("") + ylab("% of Merchandise exports")