Kiribati's trade in services (% of GDP) was 31.62% in 2025, the latest year in the World Bank's World Development Indicators. That is down 19.64 percentage points from 51.26% in 2015.
Key figures
| Value | Year | |
|---|---|---|
| Latest | 31.62% | 2025 |
| Five years earlier | 23.69% | 2020 |
| Ten years earlier | 51.26% | 2015 |
| Highest | 74.3% | 1990 |
| Lowest | 20.35% | 2021 |
| Average since 2016 | 35.97% | 2016–2025 |
| First recorded | 24.4% | 1979 |
What the numbers say
In 2025, Kiribati's trade in services (% of GDP) fell 1.95 percentage points on 2024 (from 33.57% to 31.62%).
Across the 30 yearly changes before that (1983 to 2024), the average change was +0.1 percentage points and a typical year strayed about 9.37 percentage points from that (the standard deviation). This year's change was 0.2 standard deviations below 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 25.85 percentage points in 1985 and the biggest yearly fall was 19.84 percentage points in 1992. 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 there is no clear straight-line trend: a straight line explains 24% 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 2025, Kiribati had the 43rd highest value of the 135 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 | |
|---|---|---|
| Kiribati | 31.62% | 2025 |
| World | 15.19% | 2025 |
| East Asia & Pacific | 11.6% | 2025 |
| Lower middle income | 14.03% | 2025 |
Closest to Kiribati in the 2025 ranking
What this measures
Total trade in services includes services provided by residents to non-residents plus services provided by non-residents to residents. 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 36 values
| Year | Trade in services (% of GDP) |
|---|---|
| 2025 | 31.62 |
| 2024 | 33.57 |
| 2023 | 37.85 |
| 2022 | 39.42 |
| 2021 | 20.35 |
| 2020 | 23.69 |
| 2019 | 41.9 |
| 2018 | 34.51 |
| 2017 | 42.9 |
| 2016 | 53.87 |
| 2015 |
Trade in services (% of GDP) in nearby economies
- Australia — 11.55% (2025)
- Brunei Darussalam — 13.32% (2025)
- Cambodia — 16.72% (2025)
- China — 5.17% (2025)
- Fiji — 52.17% (2024)
- French Polynesia — 25.61% (2016)
- Hong Kong SAR, China — 48.83% (2025)
- Indonesia — 7.29% (2025)
- Japan — 11.62% (2025)
- Korea, Rep. — 17.88% (2025)
- Lao PDR — 19.05% (2025)
More economic policy & debt data for Kiribati
- Grants, excluding technical cooperation (BoP, current US$) — US$96.28 million (2023)
- Net bilateral aid flows from DAC donors, Total (current US$) — US$74.04 million (2023)
- Net official development assistance and official aid received (current US$) — US$98.32 million (2023)
- Net official development assistance and official aid received (constant 2023 US$) — US$98.32 million (2023)
- Net official development assistance received (current US$) — US$98.32 million (2023)
- Net official development assistance received (constant 2023 US$) — US$98.32 million (2023)
- Net ODA received per capita (current US$) — US$741.9 (2023)
- Technical cooperation grants (BoP, current US$)
Reading data like this
Questions people ask
- What is Kiribati's trade in services (% of GDP)?
- 31.62% in 2025, according to the World Bank (World Development Indicators).
- How has it changed since 1979?
- It is up 7.22 percentage points from 24.4% in 1979. The highest value was 74.3% in 1990 and the lowest 20.35% in 2021.
- How does Kiribati rank?
- 43rd highest of 135 economies with data for 2025.
- Is the latest change in trade in services (% of GDP) unusual for Kiribati?
- In 2025, Kiribati's trade in services (% of GDP) fell 1.95 percentage points on 2024 (from 33.57% to 31.62%). Across the 30 yearly changes before that (1983 to 2024), the average change was +0.1 percentage points and a typical year strayed about 9.37 percentage points from that (the standard deviation). This year's change was 0.2 standard deviations below 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 BG.GSR.NFSV.GD.ZS, licensed CC BY 4.0. Original source: Balance of Payments Statistics Yearbook and data files, International Monetary Fund (IMF); World Development Indicators Database, World Bank (WB); National Accounts data files, Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) 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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