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Trade per capita
Total trade of goods and commercial services (average of exports and imports, balance of payments basis — jargon buster), divided by the population size. Calculated on the basis of data for the three latest available years.

Trade to GDP ratio
Total trade of goods and commercial services (average of exports and imports, balance of payments basis — jargon buster) divided by gross domestic product (GDP). Calculated on the basis of data for the three latest available years.

 

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Balance of payments basis
Trade data conforming with national income accounting methods (the value of trade in goods and services changing hands between residents and non-residents sometimes without crossing borders); the figures for goods trade are derived and adjusted from customs data (the value of goods trade crossing borders).