Trade Openness / Bhutan
Bhutan Trade Openness
Bhutan trade openness data with historical trend, latest available year, ranking, source notes and country comparison. Latest value: 79.36%.
COUNTRY: Bhutan
UNIT: percent of GDP
SOURCE: World Bank / public data sources
UPDATED: 2026-09-18 13:45:06
GM ECONOMY RATING
Bhutan · Economic Stability Rating
Composite rating based on inflation, growth, debt, unemployment and current account.
BB
62 / 100
Moderate stability
Fiscal stability
11.0 / 25
Macroeconomic stability
18.0 / 20
External stability
3.2 / 15
Financial robustness
8.0 / 15
Structural stability
12.0 / 15
Future capacity
9.0 / 10
Demographic capacity
4.0 / 5
Method: GM Economy multi-pillar stability model with structural and financial robustness adjustment. Coverage: 100% of weighted inputs available.
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Bhutan · trade openness data as percent of GDP.
Latest
79.36%
Previous
81.74%
Range avg.
79.48%
Rank
60
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CountryBhutan
IndicatorTrade Openness
79.36%2024 · Rank 60
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Prices & Inflation3
Growth & Output9
Public Finance8
Labor Market6
External Sector5
Monetary & Financial7
Population & Society7
Energy & Environment2
Interpretation
Bhutan recorded 79.36% for Trade Openness in 2024, the latest available observation in this dataset.
Compared with 2023, the indicator decreased by 2.37 percentage points, from 81.74% to 79.36%.
The latest observation is below the average of the last 10 available observations (79.48%).
Across the five latest available observations (2020–2024), the pattern is higher overall, but uneven.
Within the last 10 available observations, the low was 71.83% in 2020 and the high was 89.64% in 2015.