Macao SAR, China's trade (% of GDP) was 139.14% in 2025, the latest year in the World Bank's World Development Indicators. That is up 19.89 percentage points from 119.25% in 2015.
Key figures
| Value | Year | |
|---|---|---|
| Latest | 139.14% | 2025 |
| Five years earlier | 123.43% | 2020 |
| Ten years earlier | 119.25% | 2015 |
| Highest | 214.17% | 1983 |
| Lowest | 112.89% | 2016 |
| Average since 2016 | 135.24% | 2016–2025 |
| First recorded | 210.09% | 1982 |
What the numbers say
In 2025, Macao SAR, China's trade (% of GDP) fell 2.94 percentage points on 2024 (from 142.08% to 139.14%).
Across the 30 yearly changes before that (1995 to 2024), the average change was +0.39 percentage points and a typical year strayed about 11.51 percentage points from that (the standard deviation). This year's change was 0.3 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 47.88 percentage points in 2021 and the biggest yearly fall was 24.49 percentage points in 2023. 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 4.74 percentage points a year. A straight line explains 41% 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.
How it compares
In 2025, Macao SAR, China had the 22nd highest value of the 137 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 | |
|---|---|---|
| Macao SAR, China | 139.14% | 2025 |
| World | 68.49% | 2025 |
| East Asia & Pacific | 63.84% | 2025 |
| High income | 60.54% | 2024 |
Closest to Macao SAR, China in the 2025 ranking
What this measures
Trade is the sum of exports and imports of goods and services. 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 44 values
| Year | Trade (% of GDP) |
|---|---|
| 2025 | 139.14 |
| 2024 | 142.08 |
| 2023 | 145.87 |
| 2022 | 170.37 |
| 2021 | 171.32 |
| 2020 | 123.43 |
| 2019 | 115.23 |
| 2018 | 116.57 |
| 2017 | 115.45 |
| 2016 | 112.89 |
| 2015 |
Trade (% of GDP) in nearby economies
- American Samoa — 124.68% (2022)
- Australia — 45.9% (2025)
- Brunei Darussalam — 123.61% (2025)
- Cambodia — 136.09% (2025)
- China — 37.96% (2025)
- Fiji — 118.96% (2024)
- French Polynesia — 64.47% (2024)
- Guam — 71.87% (2022)
- Hong Kong SAR, China — 396.65% (2025)
- Indonesia — 43.39% (2025)
- Japan — 44.85% (2024)
- Kiribati — 102.11% (2024)
More economic policy & debt data for Macao SAR, China
- Adjusted savings, education expenditure (% of GNI) — 4.4% (2021)
- Adjusted savings, carbon dioxide damage (current US$) — US$119.95 million (2021)
- Adjusted savings, mineral depletion (current US$) — US$0 (2021)
- Foreign direct investment, net inflows (BoP, current US$) — US$1.15 billion (2025)
- Food, beverages and tobacco (% of value added in manufacturing) — 50.99% (2024)
- Other manufacturing (% of value added in manufacturing) — 40.08% (2024)
- Textiles and clothing (% of value added in manufacturing) — 2.88% (2024)
- General government final consumption expenditure (current US$) — US$6.35 billion (2025)
Reading data like this
Questions people ask
- What is Macao SAR, China's trade (% of GDP)?
- 139.14% in 2025, according to the World Bank (World Development Indicators).
- How has it changed since 1982?
- It is down 70.95 percentage points from 210.09% in 1982. The highest value was 214.17% in 1983 and the lowest 112.89% in 2016.
- How does Macao SAR, China rank?
- 22nd highest of 137 economies with data for 2025.
- Is the latest change in trade (% of GDP) unusual for Macao SAR, China?
- In 2025, Macao SAR, China's trade (% of GDP) fell 2.94 percentage points on 2024 (from 142.08% to 139.14%). Across the 30 yearly changes before that (1995 to 2024), the average change was +0.39 percentage points and a typical year strayed about 11.51 percentage points from that (the standard deviation). This year's change was 0.3 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 NE.TRD.GNFS.ZS, licensed CC BY 4.0. Original source: Country official statistics, National Statistical Organizations and/or Central Banks; National Accounts data files, Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD); Staff estimates, World Bank (WB) 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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