Kiribati: Merchandise exports to low- and middle-income economies outside region (% of total merchandise exports)

Key figures

Since 2005 it is up 1.91 percentage points from 2.35% in 2005. The World Bank has no value for 8 of the years in between; the chart leaves those gaps open rather than joining across them.

How it compares

In 2023, Kiribati had the 148th highest value of the 201 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 Kiribati in the 2023 ranking

• Lithuania — 144th of 201: 4.6%
• Guyana — 145th of 201: 4.34%
• Poland — 146th of 201: 4.27%
• Kyrgyz Republic — 148th of 201: 4.24%
• Haiti — 149th of 201: 4.16%
• Iceland — 150th of 201: 4.04%

What this measures

Merchandise exports to low- and middle-income economies outside region are the sum of merchandise exports from the reporting economy to other low- and middle-income economies in other World Bank regions according to the World Bank classification of economies. 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.

Limitations: Data on exports and imports are from the International Monetary Fund's (IMF) Direction of Trade database and should be broadly consistent with data from other sources, such as the United Nations Statistics Division's Commodity Trade (Comtrade) database. All high-income economies and major low- and middle-income economies report trade data to the IMF on a timely basis, covering about 85 percent of trade for recent years. Trade data for less timely reporters and for countries that do not report are estimated using reports of trading partner countries. Therefore, data on trade between developing and high-income economies should be generally complete.

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

All 11 values

Merchandise exports to low- and middle-income economies outside region (% of total merchandise exports) in nearby economies

• American Samoa — 25.27% (2023)
• Australia — 7.2% (2023)
• Brunei Darussalam — 1.62% (2023)
• Cambodia — 2.03% (2023)
• China — 20.53% (2023)
• Fiji — 0.11% (2023)
• French Polynesia — 0.15% (2022)

More private sector & trade data for Kiribati

• Merchandise imports (current US$) — US$496 million (2025)
• Merchandise exports (current US$) — US$20 million (2025)
• Merchandise trade (% of GDP) — 147.76% (2025)
• Agricultural raw materials imports (% of merchandise imports) — 2.3% (2021)
• Food imports (% of merchandise imports) — 41.44% (2021)
• Fuel imports (% of merchandise imports) — 12.54% (2021)
• Manufactures imports (% of merchandise imports) — 43.01% (2021)
• Ores and metals imports (% of merchandise imports) — 0.4% (2021)
• Food exports (% of merchandise exports) — 97.22% (2021)

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Questions people ask

What is Kiribati's merchandise exports to low- and middle-income economies outside region (% of total merchandise exports)?

4.26% in 2023, according to the World Bank (World Development Indicators).

How has it changed since 2005?

It is up 1.91 percentage points from 2.35% in 2005. The highest value was 47.04% in 2012 and the lowest 0.0000303% in 2019.

How does Kiribati rank?

148th highest of 201 economies with data for 2023.

Where does this data come from?

The World Bank's World Development Indicators, licensed CC BY 4.0. Original source: Staff estimates, World Bank (WB); Direction of Trade database, International Monetary Fund (IMF).

Source

World Bank, World Development Indicators, indicator TX.VAL.MRCH.OR.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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