Data for 2021
Creative Services Exports, 2021
2021, as UNCTAD’s 2025 release gives it · stored as published, never rewritten
Creative Services Exports, 2021 covers 142 countries on 2 measures. Ireland is highest, at 59.7800; Bahamas is lowest, at 0.0018. The middle country reads 5.9854. Against 2020, 136 values changed (67 up, 69 down), 6 countries joined, 1 left.
Creative Services Exports · Data for 2021
HighestIreland
59.7800LowestBahamas
0.0018Shaded by value in five groups of equal size, darkest at the highest end. Neither end is better. The values describe a shape, not a score.
01Values only
The table
Every country and every column of Creative Services Exports, 2021, as published. The file carries values only, so no position is shown. “=” marks a shared position.
Showing 25 of 142 countries · select a heading to sort
| 59.7800 | 234,039.959 | — | |
| 36.5599 | 33,325.903 | — | |
| 33.2452 | 56,788.896 | — | |
| 29.2341 | 239,197.457 | — | |
| 29.1052 | 35,272.909 | — | |
| 28.7300 | 9,478.842 | — | |
| 28.1465 | 20,823.392 | — | |
| 27.7424 | 66,763.693 | Estimated | |
| 27.4623 | 9,443.787 | — | |
| 26.2709 | 2,591.783 | — | |
| 24.7201 | 34,773.594 | — | |
| 23.3843 | 95,569.996 | — | |
| 21.3568 | 2,455.371 | — | |
| 20.9074 | 54,839.276 | — | |
| 20.6067 | 58,667.741 | — | |
| 20.0953 | 497.348 | — | |
| 19.6671 | 3,616.967 | — | |
| 18.5917 | 4,301.538 | — | |
| 18.2009 | 1,851.894 | — | |
| 18.1939 | 409.697 | — | |
| 17.9734 | 660.164 | — | |
| 17.3294 | 5,316.610 | — | |
| 17.0146 | 13,831.010 | — | |
| 16.8645 | 77,646.600 | — | |
| 16.6105 | 4,476.135 | — | |
| 16.3312 | 1,032.801 | — | |
| 16.2386 | 9,021.358 | — | |
| 15.6364 | 21,273.458 | — | |
| 15.3685 | 60,593.648 | — | |
| 14.6900 | 4,624.690 | — | |
| 14.5447 | 17,446.128 | — | |
| 14.4874 | 1,494.099 | — | |
| 14.3272 | 1,903.155 | — | |
| 14.2514 | 932.614 | — | |
| 13.8689 | 16,278.291 | — | |
| 13.8011 | 285.045 | — | |
| 13.7791 | 43,596.778 | — | |
| 13.5108 | 6,194.724 | — | |
| 12.9490 | 1,186.611 | — | |
| 12.6278 | 442.672 | — | |
| 12.3321 | 201.622 | — | |
| 12.2393 | 504.059 | — | |
| 11.9786 | 1,105.200 | — | |
| 11.4864 | 8,173.813 | — | |
| 11.3795 | 1,140.362 | — | |
| 11.2968 | 1,913.051 | — | |
| 11.1569 | 2,370.400 | — | |
| 10.5648 | 5,493.160 | — | |
| 10.5031 | 4,290.028 | — | |
| 10.0413 | 177.056 | — | |
| 10.0118 | 1,134.379 | — | |
| 9.9095 | 15,679.212 | — | |
| 9.7737 | 23.453 | — | |
| 9.7701 | 9,686.544 | — | |
| 9.7026 | 392.964 | — | |
| 9.3300 | 22.181 | — | |
| 8.5175 | 2,821.940 | — | |
| 8.4763 | 0.598 | — | |
| 8.1379 | 1,306.318 | — | |
| 7.9469 | 98.180 | — | |
| 7.9344 | 89.375 | — | |
| 7.8268 | 5.633 | — | |
| 7.7680 | 709.137 | Estimated | |
| 7.7101 | 33.109 | — | |
| 7.3098 | 49.076 | — | |
| 7.2342 | 2,428.509 | — | |
| 7.1322 | 48.596 | — | |
| 7.0614 | 577.472 | — | |
| 6.5369 | 2.290 | — | |
| 6.4680 | 7.064 | — | |
| 6.0263 | 928.982 | — | |
| 5.9446 | 1,115.318 | — | |
| 5.6982 | 107.629 | — | |
| 5.6562 | 582.768 | — | |
| 5.5387 | 30.923 | — | |
| 5.4864 | 357.601 | — | |
| 5.3580 | 14.942 | — | |
| 5.3535 | 3,365.384 | — | |
| 4.7531 | 385.678 | — | |
| 4.2889 | 19.241 | — | |
| 4.1192 | 18.954 | — | |
| 3.7313 | 8.331 | — | |
| 3.6013 | 11.588 | — | |
| 3.4312 | 478.695 | — | |
| 3.0279 | 1,255.461 | — | |
| 2.8858 | 65.051 | — | |
| 2.5989 | 2,056.419 | — | |
| 2.5258 | 72.859 | — | |
| 2.3114 | 56.653 | — | |
| 2.2113 | 4.402 | — | |
| 2.0994 | 2.148 | — | |
| 1.9166 | 8.858 | — | |
| 1.8618 | 32.349 | — | |
| 1.8547 | 108.251 | — | |
| 1.6722 | 306.792 | — | |
| 1.6127 | 147.430 | — | |
| 1.5563 | 59.163 | — | |
| 1.5307 | 13.932 | — | |
| 1.4895 | 37.935 | — | |
| 1.4477 | 85.921 | — | |
| 1.3989 | 2.802 | — | |
| 1.2647 | 4.496 | — | |
| 1.2279 | 36.185 | — | |
| 1.2239 | 61.509 | — | |
| 1.1769 | 0.641 | — | |
| 1.0822 | 8.814 | — | |
| 1.0624 | 5.544 | — | |
| 1.0183 | 23.422 | — | |
| 1.0000 | 5.116 | — | |
| 0.9935 | 15.717 | — | |
| 0.9243 | 0.261 | — | |
| 0.7275 | 1.569 | — | |
| 0.7237 | 1.930 | — | |
| 0.6245 | 0.599 | — | |
| 0.5944 | 0.129 | — | |
| 0.5528 | 3.452 | — | |
| 0.4813 | 2.376 | — | |
| 0.4604 | 0.873 | — | |
| 0.4453 | 1.598 | — | |
| 0.3463 | 7.731 | — | |
| 0.3323 | 2.177 | — | |
| 0.3321 | 1.745 | — | |
| 0.3082 | 7.138 | — | |
| 0.2897 | 0.822 | — | |
| 0.2836 | 2.263 | — | |
| 0.2707 | 15.067 | — | |
| 0.2553 | 5.306 | — | |
| 0.2417 | 6.861 | — | |
| 0.2052 | 9.259 | — | |
| 0.1933 | 0.119 | — | |
| 0.1857 | 0.150 | — | |
| 0.1331 | 0.055 | — | |
| 0.1321 | 0.765 | — | |
| 0.0952 | 2.956 | — | |
| 0.0776 | 0.406 | — | |
| 0.0451 | 0.122 | — | |
| 0.0441 | 1.374 | — | |
| 0.0256 | 0.408 | — | |
| 0.0252 | 4.705 | — | |
| 0.0187 | 0.154 | — | |
| 0.0054 | 0.089 | — | |
| 0.0018 | 0.049 | — |
02In 2021
At either end
The 5 countries at each end of the headline, then the highest and lowest on each other measure.
Highest
Ireland59.7800
Sweden36.5599
Japan33.2452
United States29.2341
Canada29.1052
Lowest
Bahamas0.0018
Sudan0.0054
Mozambique0.0187
Macau0.0252
Paraguay0.0256
Neither end is better. The values describe a shape, not a score. The middle country reads 5.9854. “Shared” marks a value another country also holds.
Each measure’s ends
Creative services exports (US$ millions, current prices)
Highest
United States239,197.457
Lowest
Bahamas0.049
Middle country: 107.940
032020 → 2021
Since 2020
What changed between 2020 and this one: who joined or left, and how far the headline moved.
- +6 / −1countries joined / left
- 136values changed, of 136 in both
- 67 · 69rose · fell
- 0unchanged
Rose most
New Zealand15.9848 → 26.2709+10.2861
Bahrain6.2267 → 14.3272+8.1005
Vietnam10.0723 → 17.9734+7.9011
Sri Lanka14.7307 → 20.0953+5.3646
Estonia13.8419 → 18.2009+4.3589
Fell most
Iceland18.8533 → 12.6278−6.2255
Dominican Republic10.6474 → 4.7531−5.8943
Armenia14.0001 → 10.0413−3.9588
China19.0598 → 15.3685−3.6914
Albania15.8103 → 12.2393−3.5710
Both years come from the same release, so a difference here is a change in the data, not a revision of it. Every country’s full history is charted on the statistic page.
04Caveats
Read before you use
What this edition’s numbers are and are not, worked out from the file itself.
One year of the 2025 release
Every year in this series comes from UNCTAD’s 2025 release, recalculated on one method. It can differ from what was first published for 2021.
Which end is better
Neither end is better. The values describe a shape, not a score.
140 empty cells
An empty cell means the publisher gave no figure. It is never a zero.
05The files
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UNCTAD’s own file, on its own site.
US_CreativeServ_Indiv_Tot
What this site changed: 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.
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Cite this edition
UN Trade and Development (UNCTAD) (2021). Creative Services Exports, 2021 [data set], describing 2021. As held by Nations Inquiry, https://nationsinquiry.com/datasets/creative-services-exports/2021
0615 held
Other years
‹ The year before
Creative Services Exports, 2020137 countries
The year after ›
Creative Services Exports, 2022136 countries
All of them
Creative Services Exports: every year15 held, with the data dictionary, coverage and licence.
How it has moved, charted by country
07Questions
Creative Services Exports, 2021: questions and answers
Which country has the highest creative services exports in Creative Services Exports, 2021?
Ireland, at 59.7800, of the 142 countries in the file.
What year does Creative Services Exports, 2021 describe?
2021.
How many countries does Creative Services Exports, 2021 cover?
142.
Where can I download Creative Services Exports, 2021?
On this page, as a CSV file holding every value exactly as published, or from the publisher’s own site, linked below.
Is Creative Services Exports, 2021 the newest?
No. The newest held here is Creative Services Exports, 2024.