Heavily indebted poor countries (HIPC): ICT service exports (% of service exports, BoP)

Key figures

What the numbers say

In 2024, Heavily indebted poor countries (HIPC)'s ICT service exports (% of service exports, BoP) fell 0.95 percentage points on 2023 (from 5.07% to 4.12%).

Across the 18 yearly changes before that (2006 to 2023), the average change was −0.09 percentage points and a typical year strayed about 0.71 percentage points from that (the standard deviation). This year's change was 1.2 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 1.65 percentage points in 2020 and the biggest yearly fall was 1.46 percentage points in 2018. The numbers show how large and when, not why; for the cause, look at what happened in that country in those years.

From 2015 to 2024 the straight-line trend is downward, about 0.28 percentage points a year. A straight line explains 68% 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 3.28% for 2027. We show this only because the same method, fitted on earlier years, predicted 2022 to 2024 better than "no change" would have: its average miss was 0.45%, against 0.68% 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

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What this measures

Information and communication technology service exports include computer and communications services (telecommunications and postal and courier services) and information services (computer data and news-related service transactions).

Limitations: Discrepancies may arise in the balance of payments because there is no single source for balance of payments data and therefore no way to ensure that the data are fully consistent. Sources include customs data, monetary accounts of the banking system, external debt records, information provided by enterprises, surveys to estimate service transactions, and foreign exchange records. Differences in collection methods - such as in timing, definitions of residence and ownership, and the exchange rate used to value transactions - contribute to net errors and omissions. In addition, smuggling and other illegal or quasi-legal transactions may be unrecorded or misrecorded.

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

All 20 values

ICT service exports (% of service exports, BoP) in nearby economies

• Afghanistan — 7.83% (2020)
• Algeria — 1.99% (2025)
• Bahrain — 7.61% (2025)
• Djibouti — 6.86% (2024)
• Egypt, Arab Rep. — 6.05% (2025)
• Iraq — 0.92% (2025)
• Israel — 64.63% (2025)
• Jordan — 0.51% (2024)
• Kuwait — 49.27% (2025)
• Lebanon — 1.78% (2023)

More infrastructure data for Heavily indebted poor countries (HIPC)

• Fixed telephone subscriptions — 4.38 million (2022)
• Fixed telephone subscriptions (per 100 people) — 0.7 (2022)
• Mobile cellular subscriptions — 550.04 million (2022)
• Mobile cellular subscriptions (per 100 people) — 76.71 (2022)
• Air transport, registered carrier departures worldwide — 437,952 (2023)
• Air transport, passengers carried — 34.62 million (2023)
• Air transport, freight (million ton-km) — 4,252 (2023)
• Scientific and technical journal articles — 20,193 (2023)

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Questions people ask

What is Heavily indebted poor countries (HIPC)'s ICT service exports (% of service exports, BoP)?

4.12% in 2024, according to the World Bank (World Development Indicators).

How has it changed since 2005?

It is down 2.53 percentage points from 6.65% in 2005. The highest value was 8.73% in 2011 and the lowest 4.12% in 2024.

Source

World Bank, World Development Indicators, indicator BX.GSR.CCIS.ZS, licensed CC BY 4.0. Original source: Balance of Payments Statistics Yearbook and data files, 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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