Who trades what with whom — measured, not asserted.
A country atlas and editorial data stories built on CEPII BACI bilateral goods-trade data, 1995–2024 — 226 countries, 5,021 products, every figure from a published artifact.
The reallocation of world exports
China's slice grew from 4.5% in 1995 to 15.7% in 2024; the established exporters were diluted, not displaced.
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% of world exports · 1995–2024 · Source: CEPII BACI (HS92) · read the story →
World goods trade
$45.67T
exports + imports · 2024 · vs $10.13T in 1995
1995–2024, nominal USD
Top exporters & importers, 2024
Exporters
- 1 China$3.59T
- 2 United States$1.86T
- 3 Germany$1.51T
- 4 South Korea$764.0B
- 5 Japan$758.8B
Importers
- 1 United States$3.17T
- 2 China$2.16T
- 3 Germany$1.32T
- 4 France$746.1B
- 5 United Kingdom$723.4B
exports · imports, USD, 2024all rankings →
Biggest export-share gains, 1995–2023
- China4.5% → 15.1% (+10.6 pp)
- Vietnam0.1% → 1.9% (+1.8 pp)
- India0.8% → 1.9% (+1.2 pp)
- United Arab Emirates0.4% → 1.6% (+1.2 pp)
- Mexico1.6% → 2.7% (+1.0 pp)
share of world exports, 1995–2023
Stories
All stories →These analyses are in editorial review — figures are final, prose may still change.
china Draft
The Factory Floor Moved
In three decades of BACI trade data, China went from the world’s sixth-largest exporter to the unambiguous center of goods trade, lifting its share of world exports from 4.52% in 1995 to 15.73% in 2024.
data through 2024
ai Draft
The Hardware Behind AI Has Several Centers
AI compute hardware exports grew from $544 billion in 2000 to $1.55 trillion in 2024 — but chips and the machines that house them have different maps: integrated circuits lead from 'Other Asia, nes’ (24%), China (18%) and Korea (17%), while data-processing machines are China-centred (40%).
data through 2024
minerals Draft
The Small Markets That Became Strategic
Lithium, cobalt, graphite, copper and nickel ores, and rare earths: small trade markets that grew an order of magnitude and stayed concentrated in a few exporters.
data through 2024
energy Draft
Who Depends On Gulf Energy Trade?
A disruption to Gulf oil and gas would not hit every economy equally. Trade data shows which importers lean hardest on the eight Gulf source countries — and where that exposure is, and is not, possible to measure.
data through 2024
country Draft
The New Manufacturing Arc
China is the largest gainer in world export share since 1995 - but the next tier of gains, from Vietnam to Mexico to Poland, traces a broader reallocation of manufacturing across Asia, North America and Eastern Europe.
data through 2024
energy Draft
Europe’s Energy Map Was Already Changing
Before the 2022 shock, Russia supplied close to a fifth of the energy bought by seven major European importers. By 2024 that share had collapsed to under two percent — and the trade record shows where the replacement supply came from, while being explicit about what annual data and product codes cannot reveal.
data through 2024