Trade Openness / Laos
Laos Trade Openness
Laos trade openness data with historical trend, latest available year, ranking, source notes and country comparison. Latest value: 75.09%.
COUNTRY: Laos
UNIT: percent of GDP
SOURCE: World Bank / public data sources
UPDATED: 2026-09-18 13:45:06
GM ECONOMY RATING
Laos · Economic Stability Rating
Composite rating based on inflation, growth, debt, unemployment and current account.
B
54 / 100
Fragile stability
Fiscal stability
3.0 / 25
Macroeconomic stability
16.0 / 20
External stability
10.0 / 15
Financial robustness
5.0 / 15
Structural stability
10.0 / 15
Future capacity
8.0 / 10
Demographic capacity
4.5 / 5
Method: GM Economy multi-pillar stability model with structural and financial robustness adjustment. Coverage: 100% of weighted inputs available.
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Laos · trade openness data as percent of GDP.
Latest
75.09%
Previous
85.80%
Range avg.
87.07%
Rank
67
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IndicatorTrade Openness
75.09%2016 · Rank 67
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Prices & Inflation3
Growth & Output9
Public Finance8
Labor Market6
External Sector5
Monetary & Financial7
Population & Society7
Energy & Environment2
Interpretation
Laos recorded 75.09% for Trade Openness in 2016, the latest available observation in this dataset.
Compared with 2015, the indicator decreased by 10.71 percentage points, from 85.80% to 75.09%.
The latest observation is below the average of the last 10 available observations (87.07%).
Across the five latest available observations (2012–2016), the pattern is predominantly downward.
Within the last 10 available observations, the low was 75.09% in 2016 and the high was 99.06% in 2014.