World Bank Service Export Composition Indicators

World Development Indicators provide data on the composition of service exports for countries, expressed as a percentage of total service exports. The data covers categories including communications, computer and information services, royalties, and other business services. The World Bank compiles this data from international trade and balance of payments statistics.

Use Cases

• Analyze the growth of communications and computer services as a share of total service exports over time.
• Compare the contribution of royalty and license fee exports across different countries or regions.
• Model the relationship between a country's service export composition and other macroeconomic indicators like GDP.
• Track trends in miscellaneous business, professional, and technical services as a component of international trade.

Strengths

• Data is sourced from the World Bank's authoritative World Development Indicators collection.
• Covers a defined and standardized set of service categories for international comparability.

Limitations

• Specific row count, column details, and temporal coverage for the dataset are unknown.
• The granularity of the underlying country-level data is not specified.

Provenance

Source

World Development Indicators, The World Bank

Collection Method

Compiled from national and international balance of payments and trade statistics.

Geography

Global, country-level