World: High-technology exports (% of manufactured exports)

Key figures

What the numbers say

In 2024, World's high-technology exports (% of manufactured exports) rose 1.71 percentage points on 2023 (from 22.98% to 24.69%).

Across the 16 yearly changes before that (2008 to 2023), the average change was +0.2 percentage points and a typical year strayed about 0.86 percentage points from that (the standard deviation). This year's change was 1.8 standard deviations above that average, so it was larger than a typical year, though not out of the range seen before.

On record, the biggest yearly rise was 1.71 percentage points in 2024 and the biggest yearly fall was 1.88 percentage points in 2011. The numbers show how large and when, not why; for the cause, look at what happened in that country in those years.

From 2015 to 2024 the straight-line trend is upward, about 0.48 percentage points a year. A straight line explains 88% 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 25.03% for 2027. We show this only because the same method, fitted on earlier years, predicted 2022 to 2024 better than "no change" would have: its average miss was 1.24%, against 2.02% 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.

What this measures

High-technology exports are products with high R&D intensity, such as in aerospace, computers, pharmaceuticals, scientific instruments, and electrical machinery.

Limitations: The indicator is based on data reported by countries to COMTRADE. The export values presented in the World Development Indicators represent Gross Exports less Re-Exports. The values may be impacted in cases of reporting errors or missing data, for example if countries do not report Re-Exports for one or more periods.

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

All 18 values

High-technology exports (% of manufactured exports) in nearby economies

• Algeria — 0.96% (2017)
• Bahrain — 0.39% (2023)
• Egypt, Arab Rep. — 3.81% (2024)
• Iran, Islamic Rep. — 0.81% (2022)
• Israel — 37.23% (2024)
• Jordan — 2.08% (2023)
• Kuwait — 10.2% (2024)
• Lebanon — 2.9% (2024)
• Malta — 45.18% (2024)
• Oman

More infrastructure data for World

• Fixed telephone subscriptions (per 100 people) — 9.9 (2025)
• Fixed telephone subscriptions — 815 million (2025)
• Air transport, registered carrier departures worldwide — 34.76 million (2023)
• Air transport, passengers carried — 4.27 billion (2023)
• Air transport, freight (million ton-km) — 213,782 (2023)
• Mobile cellular subscriptions — 9.17 billion (2025)
• Mobile cellular subscriptions (per 100 people) — 111.5 (2025)
• Patent applications, nonresidents — 1.02 million (2024)
• Patent applications, residents — 2.7 million (2024)
• ICT service exports (% of service exports, BoP)

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Questions people ask

What is World's high-technology exports (% of manufactured exports)?

24.69% in 2024, according to the World Bank (World Development Indicators).

How has it changed since 2007?

It is up 4.84 percentage points from 19.85% in 2007. The highest value was 24.69% in 2024 and the lowest 18.68% in 2011.

Is the latest change in high-technology exports (% of manufactured exports) unusual for World?

Source

World Bank, World Development Indicators, indicator TX.VAL.TECH.MF.ZS, licensed CC BY 4.0. Original source: Comtrade database, United Nations (UN), uri: comtrade.un.org, publisher: UN Statistics Division; World Integrated Trade Solution system (WITS), World Bank (WB), uri: https://wits.worldbank.org/ 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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