El Salvador: Merchandise exports to economies in the Arab World (% of total merchandise exports)

Key figures

What the numbers say

In 2023, El Salvador's merchandise exports to economies in the Arab World (% of total merchandise exports) rose 0.03 percentage points on 2022 (from 0.11% to 0.14%).

Across the 28 yearly changes before that (1968 to 2022), the average change was +0.02 percentage points and a typical year strayed about 0.32 percentage points from that (the standard deviation). This year's change was 0.0 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 1.12 percentage points in 1968 and the biggest yearly fall was 1.03 percentage points in 1969. 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 there is no clear straight-line trend: a straight line explains 23% of the movement over 10 observed years, so the value is moving around more than it is heading anywhere.

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

How it compares

In 2023, El Salvador had the 176th highest value of the 194 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 El Salvador in the 2023 ranking

• Mongolia — 173rd of 194: 0.18%
• Turkmenistan — 174th of 194: 0.16%
• Honduras — 175th of 194: 0.15%
• Equatorial Guinea — 177th of 194: 0.08%
• Greenland — 178th of 194: 0.07%
• St. Vincent and the Grenadines — 179th of 194: 0.06%

What this measures

Merchandise exports to economies in the Arab World are the sum of merchandise exports by the reporting economy to economies in the Arab World. Data are expressed 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 37 values

Merchandise exports to economies in the Arab World (% of total merchandise exports) in nearby economies

• Antigua and Barbuda — 0.28% (2023)
• Argentina — 7.25% (2023)
• Aruba — 0.69% (2023)
• Bahamas, The — 10.56% (2023)
• Barbados — 0.71% (2023)
• Belize — 0.05% (2023)
• Bolivia — 8.35% (2023)
• Brazil

More private sector & trade data for El Salvador

• Merchandise imports (current US$) — US$17.85 billion (2025)
• Merchandise exports (current US$) — US$6.43 billion (2025)
• Merchandise imports from high-income economies (% of total merchandise imports) — 44.76% (2023)
• Merchandise imports from low- and middle-income economies in Latin America & the Caribbean (% of total merchandise imports) — 34.98% (2023)
• Merchandise imports by the reporting economy, residual (% of total merchandise imports) — 0.01% (2023)
• Merchandise imports by the reporting economy (current US$) — US$15.63 billion (2023)
• Merchandise imports from low- and middle-income economies within region (% of total merchandise imports) — 34.98% (2023)

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Questions people ask

What is El Salvador's merchandise exports to economies in the Arab World (% of total merchandise exports)?

0.14% in 2023, according to the World Bank (World Development Indicators).

How has it changed since 1967?

It is up 0.09 percentage points from 0.05% in 1967. The highest value was 1.17% in 1968 and the lowest 0.000745% in 1972.

How does El Salvador rank?

176th highest of 194 economies with data for 2023.

Is the latest change in merchandise exports to economies in the Arab World (% of total merchandise exports) unusual for El Salvador?

In 2023, El Salvador's merchandise exports to economies in the Arab World (% of total merchandise exports) rose 0.03 percentage points on 2022 (from 0.11% to 0.14%). Across the 28 yearly changes before that (1968 to 2022), the average change was +0.02 percentage points and a typical year strayed about 0.32 percentage points from that (the standard deviation). This year's change was 0.0 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 TX.VAL.MRCH.AL.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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