External balance on goods and services (% of GDP)

Name: External balance on goods and services (% of GDP)
Creator: World Bank
License: https://data.worldbank.org/terms-and-conditions
Keywords: trade, trade-balance, exports, imports, world-bank, annual

Commercial use OKFreshLicense: CC-BY-4.0

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The external balance on goods and services is the difference between exports and imports of goods and services, expressed as a percentage of GDP — the basic trade-balance indicator of an economy: positive values are surpluses, negative values genuine deficits (kept, never dropped). The World Bank publishes the indicator in the World Development Indicators from country official statistics, national accounts data files, OECD statistics, and World Bank staff estimates. It complements the connector's exports/imports and trade-share datasets. The 8-country panel is covered 2000-2025; values are null where national statistics are unavailable. Units: percent of GDP.

Source: World Bank
Rows: 208
Columns: 4
Source cadence: Yearly
Last refreshed: Sep 23, 2026
Theme: trade

Column	Type	Description
country_code	string	ISO 3166-1 alpha-3 country code (World Bank API field countryiso3code).
country_name	string	Country name as published by the World Bank API.
year	integer	Calendar year of the observation (World Bank API field date).
value	float	Indicator value for the country and year, as defined by the World Bank indicator (see the dataset description). Missing values are null. (unit: % of GDP)

First 10 sample rows — a preview, not the complete dataset.

country_code	country_name	year	value
CAN	Canada	2,000	5.653
CAN	Canada	2,001	5.736
CAN	Canada	2,002	4.41
CAN	Canada	2,003	3.892
CAN	Canada	2,004	4.463
CAN	Canada	2,005	3.954
CAN	Canada	2,006	2.753
CAN	Canada	2,007	2.176
CAN	Canada	2,008	1.766
CAN	Canada	2,009	-1.443

Profiled Sep 23, 2026 from snapshot 20260923T233125Z-fb510749c0a1

Measured

Completeness: 99.8%
Rows: 208
Columns: 4
Columns with gaps: 1

Rows per yearyear · 2000–2025 · 26 years

20002025

Column	Missing	Distinct	Range	Distribution
country_codevarchar	0%	7	—	CAN26 CHN26 DEU26
country_namevarchar	0%	9	—	Canada26 China26 France26
yearbigint	0%	27	2,000 → 2,025median 2,013
valuedouble	0.96%	200	-6.72 → 8.55median -0.7061	6 outside 1st–99th percentile

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curl "https://datazimuts.com/v1/datasets/world_bank/external_balance_goods_services" | jq '{title, rows, columns_count, license}'

Python

import requests

ds = requests.get("https://datazimuts.com/v1/datasets/world_bank/external_balance_goods_services").json()
print(ds["title"], ds["rows"], "rows")

# Sample rows for an LLM context window
for row in ds.get("sample_rows", [])[:5]:
    print(row)

API endpoint: https://datazimuts.com/v1/datasets/world_bank/external_balance_goods_services

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World Bank. (2026). External balance on goods and services (% of GDP) [Data set, snapshot 20260923T233125Z-fb510749c0a1, sha256 fb510749c0a1]. Datazimuts. Retrieved 2026-09-24, from https://datazimuts.com/en/datasets/world_bank/external_balance_goods_services?snapshot=20260923T233125Z-fb510749c0a1

BibTeX

@misc{dz_world_bank_external_balance_goods_servic_fb510749,
  title        = {{External balance on goods and services (\% of GDP)}},
  author       = {{World Bank}},
  year         = {2026},
  publisher    = {Datazimuts},
  howpublished = {\url{https://datazimuts.com/en/datasets/world_bank/external_balance_goods_services?snapshot=20260923T233125Z-fb510749c0a1}},
  note         = {Snapshot 20260923T233125Z-fb510749c0a1, sha256 fb510749c0a1b7d4519bf64272c8d86e76ef3cfb4d761c9676a44dbcb1cf670d; accessed 2026-09-24}
}

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