High income: ICT service exports (BoP, current US$)

Key figures

What the numbers say

In 2025, High income's ICT service exports (BoP, current US$) rose 12.4% on 2024 (from US$962.32 billion to US$1.08 trillion).

Across the 19 yearly changes before that (2006 to 2024), the average change was +10.8% and a typical year strayed about 7.2% from that (the standard deviation). This year's change was 0.2 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 20.3% in 2021 and the biggest yearly fall was 4.9% in 2015. 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 US$77.64 billion a year. A straight line explains 98% 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 US$1.2 trillion for 2028. We show this only because the same method, fitted on earlier years, predicted 2023 to 2025 better than "no change" would have: its average miss was US$157.08 billion, against US$212.36 billion 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). Data are in current U.S. dollars.

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

All 21 values

ICT service exports (BoP, current US$) in nearby economies

• Afghanistan — US$54.77 million (2020)
• Algeria — US$77.61 million (2025)
• Bahrain — US$1.42 billion (2025)
• Djibouti — US$80.52 million (2024)
• Egypt, Arab Rep. — US$2.06 billion (2025)
• Iraq — US$96.6 million (2025)
• Israel — US$58.63 billion (2025)
• Jordan — US$48.17 million (2024)
• Kuwait — US$6.25 billion (2025)
• Lebanon — US$140.73 million (2023)
• Libya

More infrastructure data for High income

• Fixed telephone subscriptions (per 100 people) — 28 (2025)
• Air transport, registered carrier departures worldwide — 21.53 million (2023)
• Air transport, freight (million ton-km) — 157,754 (2023)
• Air transport, passengers carried — 2.59 billion (2023)
• Fixed telephone subscriptions — 398 million (2025)
• Industrial design applications, nonresident, by count — 235,953 (2024)
• Industrial design applications, resident, by count — 317,282 (2024)
• Patent applications, nonresidents — 723,652 (2024)
• Patent applications, residents — 918,140 (2024)

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Questions people ask

What is High income's ICT service exports (BoP, current US$)?

US$1.08 trillion in 2025, according to the World Bank (World Development Indicators).

How has it changed since 2005?

It is up 658.62% from US$142.6 billion in 2005 (10.66% a year on average, compounded). The highest value was US$1.08 trillion in 2025 and the lowest US$142.6 billion in 2005.

Is the latest change in ICT service exports (BoP, current US$) unusual for High income?

Source

World Bank, World Development Indicators, indicator BX.GSR.CCIS.CD, 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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