Imports of goods and services (constant 2015 US$)

Imports of goods and services expressed in constant 2015 US dollars — the volume measure behind the connector's imports-goods-services-current-usd dataset: comparing the two separates price movements from quantity movements in trade. Imports of goods includes changes in the economic ownership of goods from non-residents to residents of the compiling economy, irrespective of physical movement across borders; imports of services includes services provided by non-residents to residents. The World Bank publishes the indicator in the World Development Indicators from country official statistics, national accounts data files, central banks, and World Bank staff estimates. The pair is built to be subtracted: exports minus imports in constant 2015 US$ is the real (volume) trade balance — nominal and real balances diverge when terms of trade move. The 8-country panel is covered 2000-2025; China publishes almost no observations in this vintage (a genuine upstream gap, kept verbatim), and values are null where national statistics are unavailable and are never interpolated. Units: constant 2015 US$.