Timor-Leste's trade in services (% of GDP) was 32.68% in 2025, the latest year in the World Bank's World Development Indicators. That is down 13.84 percentage points from 46.51% in 2015.
Key figures
| Value | Year | |
|---|---|---|
| Latest | 32.68% | 2025 |
| Five years earlier | 40.94% | 2020 |
| Ten years earlier | 46.51% | 2015 |
| Highest | 147.35% | 2011 |
| Lowest | 15.93% | 2021 |
| Average since 2016 | 29.73% | 2016–2025 |
| First recorded | 58.66% | 2006 |
What the numbers say
In 2025, Timor-Leste's trade in services (% of GDP) rose 5.11 percentage points on 2024 (from 27.57% to 32.68%).
Across the 18 yearly changes before that (2007 to 2024), the average change was −1.73 percentage points and a typical year strayed about 22.85 percentage points from that (the standard deviation). This year's change was 0.3 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 38.21 percentage points in 2009 and the biggest yearly fall was 56.12 percentage points in 2012. 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 26% 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, Timor-Leste had the 39th 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 | |
|---|---|---|
| Timor-Leste | 32.68% | 2025 |
| World | 15.19% | 2025 |
| East Asia & Pacific | 11.6% | 2025 |
| Lower middle income | 14.03% | 2025 |
Closest to Timor-Leste 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 20 values
| Year | Trade in services (% of GDP) |
|---|---|
| 2025 | 32.68 |
| 2024 | 27.57 |
| 2023 | 22.4 |
| 2022 | 17.48 |
| 2021 | 15.93 |
| 2020 | 40.94 |
| 2019 | 29.89 |
| 2018 | 34.95 |
| 2017 | 33.74 |
| 2016 | 41.68 |
| 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)
- Kiribati — 31.62% (2025)
- Korea, Rep. — 17.88% (2025)
More economic policy & debt data for Timor-Leste
- Short-term debt (% of total external debt) — 0.43% (2024)
- IFC, private nonguaranteed (NFL, current US$) — −US$750,000 (2024)
- Adjusted savings, education expenditure (% of GNI) — 3.19% (2021)
- Adjusted savings, mineral depletion (current US$) — US$0 (2021)
- Grants, excluding technical cooperation (BoP, current US$) — US$221.69 million (2023)
- Net official development assistance and official aid received (current US$) — US$259.94 million (2023)
- Net official development assistance and official aid received (constant 2023 US$) — US$259.94 million (2023)
- Net official development assistance received (current US$) — US$259.94 million (2023)
Reading data like this
Questions people ask
- What is Timor-Leste's trade in services (% of GDP)?
- 32.68% in 2025, according to the World Bank (World Development Indicators).
- How has it changed since 2006?
- It is down 25.99 percentage points from 58.66% in 2006. The highest value was 147.35% in 2011 and the lowest 15.93% in 2021.
- How does Timor-Leste rank?
- 39th highest of 135 economies with data for 2025.
- Is the latest change in trade in services (% of GDP) unusual for Timor-Leste?
- In 2025, Timor-Leste's trade in services (% of GDP) rose 5.11 percentage points on 2024 (from 27.57% to 32.68%). Across the 18 yearly changes before that (2007 to 2024), the average change was −1.73 percentage points and a typical year strayed about 22.85 percentage points from that (the standard deviation). This year's change was 0.3 standard deviations above 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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