Comoros's trade in services (% of GDP) was 21.95% in 2023, the latest year in the World Bank's World Development Indicators. That is up 3.93 percentage points from 18.02% in 2018.
Key figures
| Value | Year | |
|---|---|---|
| Latest | 21.95% | 2023 |
| Five years earlier | 18.02% | 2018 |
| Highest | 24.92% | 2022 |
| Lowest | 5.82% | 1980 |
| Average since 2014 | 18.14% | 2014–2023 |
| First recorded | 5.82% | 1980 |
Over five years it is up 3.93 percentage points from 18.02% in 2018. Since 1980 it is up 16.13 percentage points from 5.82% in 1980. The World Bank has no value for 8 of the years in between; the chart leaves those gaps open rather than joining across them.
What the numbers say
In 2023, Comoros' trade in services (% of GDP) fell 2.98 percentage points on 2022 (from 24.92% to 21.95%).
Across the 30 yearly changes before that (1983 to 2022), the average change was +0.69 percentage points and a typical year strayed about 2.83 percentage points from that (the standard deviation). This year's change was 1.3 standard deviations below that average, so it was larger than a typical year, though not out of the range seen before.
On record, the biggest yearly rise was 8.83 percentage points in 1984 and the biggest yearly fall was 5.61 percentage points in 2020. 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 0.65 percentage points a year. A straight line explains 33% 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.
How it compares
In 2023, Comoros had the 11th highest value of the 12 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.
| Value | Year | |
|---|---|---|
| Comoros | 21.95% | 2023 |
| World | 15.19% | 2025 |
| Sub-Saharan Africa | 10.77% | 2024 |
| Lower middle income | 14.03% | 2025 |
Closest to Comoros in the 2023 ranking
- South Sudan — 7th of 12: 36.73%
- Guyana — 8th of 12: 32.41%
- Libya — 9th of 12: 24.3%
- Senegal — 11th of 12: 18.1%
- Benin — 12th of 12: 10.17%
What this measures
Total trade in services includes services provided by residents to non-residents plus services provided by non-residents to residents. This indicator is expressed as a percentage of Gross Domestic Product (GDP) which is the total income earned through the production of goods and services in an economic territory during an accounting period.
Regional and income-group figures are computed by the World Bank as a weighted average.
All 36 values
| Year | Trade in services (% of GDP) |
|---|---|
| 2023 | 21.95 |
| 2022 | 24.92 |
| 2021 | 19.61 |
| 2020 | 12.35 |
| 2019 | 17.95 |
| 2018 | 18.02 |
| 2017 | 17.02 |
| 2016 | 15.91 |
| 2015 | 16.77 |
| 2014 | 16.86 |
| 2013 |
Trade in services (% of GDP) in nearby economies
- Angola — 7.02% (2025)
- Benin — 10.17% (2023)
- Botswana — 11.79% (2025)
- Burkina Faso — 9.09% (2024)
- Burundi — 16.48% (2025)
- Cabo Verde — 42.18% (2025)
- Cameroon — 7.9% (2024)
- Congo, Dem. Rep. — 6.11% (2025)
- Congo, Rep. — 13.13% (2021)
- Côte d'Ivoire — 9.01% (2024)
- Eswatini — 20.27% (2025)
More economic policy & debt data for Comoros
- Grants, excluding technical cooperation (BoP, current US$) — US$116.12 million (2023)
- Technical cooperation grants (BoP, current US$) — US$20.29 million (2023)
- Net bilateral aid flows from DAC donors, France (current US$) — US$40.43 million (2023)
- Net bilateral aid flows from DAC donors, Total (current US$) — US$55.21 million (2023)
- Net official development assistance and official aid received (current US$) — US$166.35 million (2023)
- Net official development assistance and official aid received (constant 2023 US$) — US$166.35 million (2023)
- Net official development assistance received (current US$) — US$166.35 million (2023)
- Net official development assistance received (constant 2023 US$)
Reading data like this
Questions people ask
- What is Comoros's trade in services (% of GDP)?
- 21.95% in 2023, according to the World Bank (World Development Indicators).
- How has it changed since 1980?
- It is up 16.13 percentage points from 5.82% in 1980. The highest value was 24.92% in 2022 and the lowest 5.82% in 1980.
- How does Comoros rank?
- 11th highest of 12 economies with data for 2023.
- Is the latest change in trade in services (% of GDP) unusual for Comoros?
- In 2023, Comoros' trade in services (% of GDP) fell 2.98 percentage points on 2022 (from 24.92% to 21.95%). Across the 30 yearly changes before that (1983 to 2022), the average change was +0.69 percentage points and a typical year strayed about 2.83 percentage points from that (the standard deviation). This year's change was 1.3 standard deviations below that average, so it was larger than a typical year, though not out of the range seen before.
Source
World Bank, World Development Indicators, indicator BG.GSR.NFSV.GD.ZS, licensed CC BY 4.0. Original source: Balance of Payments Statistics Yearbook and data files, International Monetary Fund (IMF); World Development Indicators Database, World Bank (WB); National Accounts data files, Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) 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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