Data · Trade & foreign investment
Imports of goods and services (% of GDP): Vietnam, 1986–2025
- Latest (2025)
- 92.09 % GDP
- Source
- World Bank
- Code
- NE.IMP.GNFS.ZS
- Frequency
- Yearly
Definition
Imports of goods includes change in the economic ownership of goods from non-residents to residents of the compiling economy, irrespective of physical movement of goods across national borders. Imports of services includes 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.
What the series shows
The series runs from 1986 to 2025 (40 years of data). It moved from 16.60 to 92.09 % GDP, a change of 454.9%. The highest value was 92.83 in 2021 and the lowest 14.80 in 1987. The comparison below sets Vietnam against 8 neighbouring economies on the latest available year.
Using it in a thesis
Indicators like this one are typical control or explanatory variables in macro and finance theses: merge the CSV with your other series on the year column, check for missing years before running a regression, and log-transform level variables that grow over time. If you use the series in a panel with other countries, take every country from the same source and vintage so the definitions match. Cite the original publisher, not this site, as shown below.
Values by year
| Year | Value (% GDP) |
|---|---|
| 2025 | 92.09 |
| 2024 | 83.72 |
| 2023 | 78.26 |
| 2022 | 89.73 |
| 2021 | 92.83 |
| 2020 | 78.86 |
| 2019 | 79.55 |
| 2018 | 80.24 |
| 2017 | 79.22 |
| 2016 | 71.30 |
| 2015 | 71.99 |
| 2014 | 65.81 |
| 2013 | 64.05 |
| 2012 | 59.75 |
| 2011 | 64.08 |
| 2010 | 59.80 |
| 2009 | 72.10 |
| 2008 | 83.98 |
| 2007 | 84.09 |
| 2006 | 70.60 |
| 2005 | 67.02 |
| 2004 | 73.29 |
| 2003 | 67.65 |
| 2002 | 61.96 |
| 2001 | 56.89 |
| 2000 | 57.50 |
| 1999 | 52.82 |
| 1998 | 52.15 |
| 1997 | 51.24 |
| 1996 | 51.84 |
| 1995 | 41.91 |
| 1994 | 43.46 |
| 1993 | 37.49 |
| 1992 | 38.83 |
| 1991 | 36.03 |
| 1990 | 45.28 |
| 1989 | 34.06 |
| 1988 | 15.01 |
| 1987 | 14.80 |
| 1986 | 16.60 |
Comparison with other countries
| Country | Latest year | Value |
|---|---|---|
| Vietnam | 2025 | 92.09 |
| Thailand | 2025 | 67.27 |
| Indonesia | 2025 | 20.54 |
| Malaysia | 2025 | 65.43 |
| Philippines | 2025 | 40.24 |
| Singapore | 2025 | 142.45 |
| Cambodia | 2025 | 67.44 |
| Laos | 2016 | 41.88 |
| China | 2025 | 16.89 |
How to cite (APA 7)
World Bank. (2026). Imports of goods and services (% of GDP), Vietnam [Data set]. World Development Indicators. https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/NE.IMP.GNFS.ZS?locations=VN
Licence: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0). Retrieved 2026-11-02. The CSV has one row per period
with the variable name ne_imp_gnfs_zs, ready for Stata, R or SPSS.