Djibouti's merchandise trade (% of GDP) was 267.14% in 2025, the latest year in the World Bank's World Development Indicators. That is up 225.69 percentage points from 41.45% in 2015.
Key figures
| Value | Year | |
|---|---|---|
| Latest | 267.14% | 2025 |
| Five years earlier | 181.16% | 2020 |
| Ten years earlier | 41.45% | 2015 |
| Highest | 272.23% | 2022 |
| Lowest | 38.37% | 1995 |
| Average since 2016 | 237.47% | 2016–2025 |
| First recorded | 63.05% | 1985 |
What the numbers say
In 2025, Djibouti's merchandise trade (% of GDP) rose 9.08 percentage points on 2024 (from 258.06% to 267.14%).
Across the 30 yearly changes before that (1995 to 2024), the average change was +7.19 percentage points and a typical year strayed about 32.93 percentage points from that (the standard deviation). This year's change was 0.1 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 114.36 percentage points in 2016 and the biggest yearly fall was 82.17 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 2016 to 2025 the straight-line trend is upward, about 7.55 percentage points a year. A straight line explains 35% 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 2025, Djibouti had the 2nd highest value of the 188 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 | |
|---|---|---|
| Djibouti | 267.14% | 2025 |
| World | 43.89% | 2025 |
| Lower middle income | 35.72% | 2025 |
Closest to Djibouti in the 2025 ranking
- Hong Kong SAR, China — 1st of 188: 371.02%
- Slovenia — 3rd of 188: 237.45%
- Viet Nam — 4th of 188: 180.05%
- Singapore — 5th of 188: 177.64%
What this measures
General merchandise trade includes goods whose economic ownership is changed between a resident and a non-resident and that are not included in the following specific categories: goods under merchanting, non-monetary gold, and parts of travel, construction, and government goods and services n.i.e. It is the total of merchandise exports plus merchandise imports. 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 40 values
| Year | Merchandise trade (% of GDP) |
|---|---|
| 2025 | 267.14 |
| 2024 | 258.06 |
| 2023 | 258.56 |
| 2022 | 272.23 |
| 2021 | 229.93 |
| 2020 | 181.16 |
| 2019 | 263.33 |
| 2018 | 244.55 |
| 2017 | 243.9 |
| 2016 | 155.82 |
| 2015 |
Merchandise trade (% of GDP) in nearby economies
- Afghanistan — 22.24% (2025)
- Algeria — 33.27% (2025)
- Bahrain — 87.63% (2025)
- Egypt, Arab Rep. — 40.78% (2025)
- Iran, Islamic Rep. — 49.32% (2025)
- Iraq — 70.02% (2025)
- Israel — 25.29% (2025)
- Jordan — 71.19% (2025)
- Kuwait — 72.31% (2025)
- Lebanon — 85.88% (2025)
- Libya — 102.7% (2025)
- Malta
More private sector & trade data for Djibouti
- Merchandise imports (current US$) — US$6.26 billion (2025)
- Merchandise exports (current US$) — US$6.09 billion (2025)
- Merchandise imports from economies in the Arab World (% of total merchandise imports) — 28.16% (2023)
- Merchandise imports from high-income economies (% of total merchandise imports) — 37.49% (2023)
- Merchandise imports from low- and middle-income economies outside region (% of total merchandise imports) — 59.96% (2023)
- Merchandise imports from low- and middle-income economies in East Asia & Pacific (% of total merchandise imports) — 27.7% (2023)
- Merchandise imports from low- and middle-income economies in Middle East & North Africa (% of total merchandise imports)
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Questions people ask
- What is Djibouti's merchandise trade (% of GDP)?
- 267.14% in 2025, according to the World Bank (World Development Indicators).
- How has it changed since 1985?
- It is up 204.09 percentage points from 63.05% in 1985. The highest value was 272.23% in 2022 and the lowest 38.37% in 1995.
- How does Djibouti rank?
- 2nd highest of 188 economies with data for 2025.
- Is the latest change in merchandise trade (% of GDP) unusual for Djibouti?
- In 2025, Djibouti's merchandise trade (% of GDP) rose 9.08 percentage points on 2024 (from 258.06% to 267.14%). Across the 30 yearly changes before that (1995 to 2024), the average change was +7.19 percentage points and a typical year strayed about 32.93 percentage points from that (the standard deviation). This year's change was 0.1 standard deviations above that average, so it was an ordinary year: it sits within the range of normal year-to-year movement.
Source
World Bank, World Development Indicators, indicator TG.VAL.TOTL.GD.ZS, licensed CC BY 4.0. Original source: World Trade Organization (WTO); World Bank GDP estimates, World Bank (WB); World Development Indicators, World Bank (WB) 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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