Merchandise trade as a share of GDP reached 44.0 % in 2017 in Gambia, according to the National Statistical Office. This is 32.5 % more than in the previous year.
Historically, merchandise trade as a share of GDP in Gambia reached an all time high of 97.0 % in 1976 and an all time low of 20.8 % in 2001. When compared to Gambia's main peers, merchandise trade as a share of GDP in Guinea Bissau amounted to 45.2 %, 46.9 % in Mali, 76.0 % in Mauritania and 46.1 % in Senegal in 2017.
Gambia has been ranked 121st within the group of 168 countries we follow in terms of merchandise trade as a share of GDP, 13 places above the position seen 10 years ago.
Merchandise trade as a share of GDP is the sum of merchandise exports and imports divided by the value of GDP, all in current US dollars.
| Merchandise Trade (As % of GDP) | Unit | 2009 | 2010 | 2011 | 2012 | 2013 | 2014 | 2015 | 2016 | 2017 |
| Algeria | % | 60.4% | 58.5% | 57.2% | 55.5% | 52.0% | ||||
| Burkina Faso | % | 44.8% | 51.6% | 56.3% | 48.7% | 50.4% | ||||
| Gambia | % | 48.5% | 54.8% | 33.4% | 39.0% | 35.3% | ||||
| Guinea | % | 52.1% | 54.7% | 44.8% | 50.6% | 45.2% | ||||
| Guinea Bissau | % | 43.9% | 31.6% | 32.1% | 36.1% | 43.8% | ||||
| Mali | % | 44.1% | 49.3% | 46.4% | 46.6% | 49.8% | ||||
| Mauritania | % | 101% | 110% | 99.5% | 85.0% | 68.9% | ||||
| Morocco | % | 65.0% | 67.5% | 62.9% | 63.8% | 59.7% | ||||
| Niger | % | 53.7% | 48.3% | 47.0% | 44.2% | 42.4% | ||||
| Senegal | % | 47.3% | 50.3% | 48.6% | 47.1% | 46.2% |
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