Cambodia: Merchandise exports to low- and middle-income economies in East Asia & Pacific (% of total merchandise exports)

Key figures

What the numbers say

In 2023, Cambodia's merchandise exports to low- and middle-income economies in East Asia & Pacific (% of total merchandise exports) rose 4.47 percentage points on 2022 (from 20.09% to 24.56%).

Across the 30 yearly changes before that (1993 to 2022), the average change was −1.44 percentage points and a typical year strayed about 10.76 percentage points from that (the standard deviation). This year's change was 0.5 standard deviations above that average, so it was an ordinary year: it sits within the range of normal year-to-year movement.

On record, the biggest yearly rise was 52.7 percentage points in 1988 and the biggest yearly fall was 31.81 percentage points in 1991. The numbers show how large and when, not why; for the cause, look at what happened in that country in those years.

From 2014 to 2023 the straight-line trend is upward, about 1.47 percentage points a year. A straight line explains 85% of the movement over 10 observed years.

Worked out from the yearly values above. How the checks work: standard deviation, z-scores and straight-line trends.

A straight-line projection, tested first

Extending that straight line gives about 27.78% for 2026. We show this only because the same method, fitted on earlier years, predicted 2021 to 2023 better than "no change" would have: its average miss was 2.7%, against 3.52% for assuming no change. Treat it as a continuation of the recent pattern, not a forecast of events: it cannot see a recession, a policy change or a revision to the data.

See how a linear trend forecast works and the guide on forecasting without fooling yourself.

How it compares

In 2023, Cambodia had the 46th highest value of the 203 economies reporting that year. Higher is not always better: for some indicators the lowest value is the one to aim for. See the full ranking.

Closest to Cambodia in the 2023 ranking

• Viet Nam — 42nd of 203: 25.92%
• Philippines — 43rd of 203: 25.11%
• Qatar — 44th of 203: 25.02%
• Mozambique — 46th of 203: 24%
• Saudi Arabia — 47th of 203: 23.54%
• Mauritania — 48th of 203: 22.88%

What this measures

Merchandise exports to low- and middle-income economies in East Asia and Pacific are the sum of merchandise exports from the reporting economy to low- and middle-income economies in the East Asia and Pacific region according to World Bank classification of economies. Data are as a percentage of total merchandise exports by the economy. Data are computed only if at least half of the economies in the partner country group had non-missing data.

Regional and income-group figures are computed by the World Bank as a weighted average.

All 53 values

Merchandise exports to low- and middle-income economies in East Asia & Pacific (% of total merchandise exports) in nearby economies

• American Samoa — 1.57% (2023)
• Australia — 46.86% (2023)
• Brunei Darussalam — 37.04% (2023)
• China — 13.69% (2023)
• Fiji — 36.61% (2023)
• French Polynesia — 12.88% (2023)
• Guam

More private sector & trade data for Cambodia

• Merchandise imports (current US$) — US$33.89 billion (2025)
• Merchandise exports (current US$) — US$31.27 billion (2025)
• Merchandise exports to high-income economies (% of total merchandise exports) — 73.41% (2023)
• Merchandise exports by the reporting economy, residual (% of total merchandise exports) — 0% (2023)
• Merchandise exports by the reporting economy (current US$) — US$22.04 billion (2023)
• Merchandise exports to low- and middle-income economies within region (% of total merchandise exports) — 24.56% (2023)
• Merchandise imports from high-income economies (% of total merchandise imports) — 17.64% (2023)
• Merchandise imports from low- and middle-income economies in East Asia & Pacific (% of total merchandise imports)

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Questions people ask

What is Cambodia's merchandise exports to low- and middle-income economies in East Asia & Pacific (% of total merchandise exports)?

24.56% in 2023, according to the World Bank (World Development Indicators).

Source

World Bank, World Development Indicators, indicator TX.VAL.MRCH.R1.ZS, licensed CC BY 4.0. Original source: Staff estimates, World Bank (WB); Direction of Trade database, International Monetary Fund (IMF) Figures are fetched from the World Bank API and refreshed monthly; see the series on data.worldbank.org. The full definition and method are in the World Bank's metadata glossary. Comparisons use the same World Bank release.

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