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Creative Goods Exports

23 years, 2002–2024 · 131 countries · 2 measures

Creative goods exports are the art, crafts, design goods, books, recorded music and film, jewellery and similar products a country sells abroad, as UNCTAD defines them, shown as a share of all its merchandise exports. It says how large a part the creative industries play in what a country ships to the world.

This site holds every year from 2002 to 2024, read from UNCTAD’s own data and stored exactly as published.

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Creative Goods Exports, 2024
Held
23 years · 3,799 rows
Licence
CC BY 3.0 IGO

0123 years

Every year

Every year comes from UNCTAD’s 2026 release, recalculated on one method. Each opens the full table for that year; each downloads as a CSV.

2002bar height: countries covered, up to 1782024
Every year of Creative Goods Exports held on this site, newest first, with its download files.
YearCountriesChangeReadDownload
Creative Goods Exports, 2024Newest131−31September 29, 2026CSV
Creative Goods Exports, 2023162+1 −4September 29, 2026CSV
Creative Goods Exports, 2022165+1 −4September 29, 2026CSV
Creative Goods Exports, 2021168+3 −4September 29, 2026CSV
Creative Goods Exports, 2020169+2 −5September 29, 2026CSV
Creative Goods Exports, 2019172+3 −6September 29, 2026CSV
Creative Goods Exports, 2018175+1 −4September 29, 2026CSV
Creative Goods Exports, 2017178+5 −2September 29, 2026CSV
Creative Goods Exports, 2016175+8 −4September 29, 2026CSV
Creative Goods Exports, 2015171+5 −1September 29, 2026CSV
Creative Goods Exports, 2014167+4 −7September 29, 2026CSV
Creative Goods Exports, 2013170+8 −7September 29, 2026CSV
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YearCountriesChangeReadDownload
Creative Goods Exports, 2012169+7 −6September 29, 2026CSV
Creative Goods Exports, 2011168+5 −5September 29, 2026CSV
Creative Goods Exports, 2010168+6 −5September 29, 2026CSV
Creative Goods Exports, 2009167+9 −7September 29, 2026CSV
Creative Goods Exports, 2008165+8 −6September 29, 2026CSV
Creative Goods Exports, 2007163+7 −5September 29, 2026CSV
Creative Goods Exports, 2006161+6 −8September 29, 2026CSV
Creative Goods Exports, 2005163+8 −5September 29, 2026CSV
Creative Goods Exports, 2004160+7 −5September 29, 2026CSV
Creative Goods Exports, 2003158+7 −3September 29, 2026CSV
Creative Goods Exports, 2002154—September 29, 2026CSV

Every year in one file, one row per country per year: creative-goods-exports-all-editions-nations-inquiry.csv

024 columns

What’s in the file

Every column, what it holds, how it is stored and what its values look like — what a reader needs before opening the file.

Every column in the newest file of Creative Goods Exports: what it holds, how it is stored, and its range.
ColumnWhat it holdsStored asRange, 2024DistinctEmptySpread
CountrycountryNameThe country’s name, as this file spells it.Text—1310
ISO Codecountry_codeIdentifierThe ISO 3166-1 alpha-3 code, added by this site. Every table here joins on it.Text · 3 letters—1310
Creative goods exports (% of merchandise exports)creative_goods_exportsHeadlineThe headline figure: Creative goods exports (% of merchandise exports).Number · up to 5 decimals0.0000Nigeria37.2343Macaumiddle 1.23481310
Creative goods exports (US$ millions, current prices)creative_goods_exports_usdMeasureValue of creative goods exported to the whole world during the year, in millions of US dollars at current prices.Number · up to 3 decimals0.007Mauritania217,477.750Chinamiddle 194.7591300

Profiled from the newest file. Range: the lowest and highest value, with the country holding it when only one does. Spread: countries in ten equal steps from lowest to highest. Neither end is better. The values describe a shape, not a score.

03197 countries across every year

Who is covered

How many countries each year holds, continent by continent, who joined and who left, and which places this site covers that the dataset never has.

All regions
Countries in each year of Creative Goods Exports, by continent.
201320142015201620172018201920202021202220232024
Africa414044454545434143434228
Americas363535373837363734333329
Asia444243454645464443444232
Europe404040404040404040383837
Oceania9109898778775
All170167171175178175172169168165162131

The newest 12 of 23 years.

Who joined and who left

  • 2024
    − Aruba− Andorra− United Arab Emirates− Burundi− Bhutan− Botswana− Cameroon− DR Congo− Republic of the Congo− Comoros− Djibouti− Dominica− Ethiopia− Gabon− Ghana− Jamaica− Jordan− Laos− Liberia− Mali− Mongolia− Oman− Papua New Guinea− Palestine− São Tomé and Príncipe− Eswatini− Tajikistan− Timor-Leste− Tonga− Saint Vincent and the Grenadines− Vietnam
  • 2023
    + Honduras− Cuba− Iran− Nepal− Rwanda
  • 2022
    + Bhutan− Belarus− Honduras− Kiribati− Russia
  • 2021
    + Djibouti+ Ghana+ Samoa− Bhutan− Curaçao− Saint Lucia− Montserrat
  • 2020
    + Cayman Islands+ Kiribati− Afghanistan− Ghana− Libya− Samoa− Yemen
  • 2019
    + Sri Lanka+ Papua New Guinea+ Yemen− Bangladesh− Greenland− Kiribati− Sudan− Solomon Islands− Sierra Leone
  • 2018
    + Cabo Verde− Algeria− Saint Kitts and Nevis− Sri Lanka− Palau
  • 2017
    + Curaçao+ Liberia+ Timor-Leste+ Tonga+ Uzbekistan− Guinea− Iraq

Not in this dataset · 28 places this site covers

UNCTAD gives no figure for these in any year held here. It is the publisher’s choice of scope, and each place’s profile shows what is measured.

American SamoaBritish Virgin IslandsChadChannel IslandsEquatorial GuineaGibraltarGuamHaitiIsle of ManKosovoLiechtensteinMarshall IslandsMonacoNauruNiueNorth KoreaNorthern CyprusNorthern Mariana IslandsPuerto RicoSaint MartinSan MarinoSint MaartenSomaliaSomalilandSouth SudanTurkmenistanUnited States Virgin IslandsVatican City

04Provenance

Where it comes from

The path from the publisher to this page, and what was checked and changed on the way.

The site’s method

  1. 1 · Publisher

    UN Trade and Development (UNCTAD)

    unctadstat.unctad.org

  2. 2 · Their file

    Creative Goods Exports 2024

    US_CreativeGoodsValue

  3. 3 · Read by this site

    September 29, 2026

    Imported by a script that parses each figure and writes it down unrounded.

  4. 4 · Stored as

    23 files, one per year

    Each downloads as a CSV, or every year together as creative-goods-exports-all-editions-nations-inquiry.csv

  5. 5 · Used on

    Its statistic page, and every profile it measures

    /statistics/creative-goods-exports

Precision

The headline is stored to 5 decimals, as published.

Rounded by this site

Never. Tables on screen may show fewer decimals; the files never do.

Changed by this site

Reshaped into one row per country: regional and income-group totals are left out, only the columns listed are kept, each row gets its ISO 3166 code, and some country names are brought to one spelling. No value is recalculated, rescaled or rounded.

Read from UNCTAD's own creative goods matrix (US.CreativeGoodsValue) on UNCTADstat, which UNCTAD builds from UN Comtrade: exports of all creative goods to the whole world, one row per country. UNCTAD's regional and group totals and states that no longer exist are left out; the US$ amount is kept beside the share.

05Reuse

Licence and credit

What the publisher’s licence lets you do, what it asks of you, and a credit line and citation ready to copy.

Every publisher’s terms

Licence · checked September 29, 2026

CC BY 3.0 IGO

  • Share and redistribute it
  • Adapt it and build on it
  • Use it commercially
  • Credit the publisher
  • Say what you changed

The version of CC BY written for intergovernmental organisations. Credit the publisher and say what you changed.

A credit line

Source: UN Trade and Development (UNCTAD), Creative Goods Exports, via Nations Inquiry.

Cite this dataset

UN Trade and Development (UNCTAD). Creative Goods Exports, 2002–2024 [data set]. As held by Nations Inquiry, https://nationsinquiry.com/datasets/creative-goods-exports

The publisher’s own citation: UN Trade and Development (UNCTAD). Creative goods matrix, annual. Geneva: UNCTAD Data Hub.

Plain-language summary, not legal advice. The licence text is what binds.

06Where it is used

Around the site

Where these numbers appear on this site, and the datasets nearest to it.

07Questions

Creative Goods Exports: questions and answers

What is the Creative Goods Exports?

Creative goods exports are the art, crafts, design goods, books, recorded music and film, jewellery and similar products a country sells abroad, as UNCTAD defines them, shown as a share of all its merchandise exports. It says how large a part the creative industries play in what a country ships to the world.

Which years of the Creative Goods Exports can I download?

All 23, from 2002 to 2024, each as a CSV file, or every year together in one CSV.

Does UNCTAD rank countries on it?

No, and this site does not order it either. The files hold values only.

Can I use it commercially?

Yes, under CC BY 3.0 IGO, with credit to UNCTAD. The licence text is linked on this page.

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