Data · Trade & foreign investment
External balance on goods and services (current US$): Vietnam, 1986–2025
- Latest (2025)
- 31.7 USD billion
- Source
- World Bank
- Code
- NE.RSB.GNFS.CD
- Frequency
- Yearly
Definition
The balance of international trade in goods and services is the difference between the exports and imports of goods and services. This indicator is expressed in current prices, meaning no adjustment has been made to account for price changes over time. This indicator is expressed in United States dollars.
What the series shows
The series runs from 1986 to 2025 (40 years of data). It moved from -2.6 to 31.7 USD billion, a change of 1,305.5%. The highest value was 36.8 in 2023 and the lowest -13.5 in 2008. The comparison below sets Vietnam against 8 neighbouring economies on the latest available year.
Using it in a thesis
Indicators like this one are typical control or explanatory variables in macro and finance theses: merge the CSV with your other series on the year column, check for missing years before running a regression, and log-transform level variables that grow over time. If you use the series in a panel with other countries, take every country from the same source and vintage so the definitions match. Cite the original publisher, not this site, as shown below.
Values by year
| Year | Value (USD billion) |
|---|---|
| 2025 | 31.7 |
| 2024 | 30.7 |
| 2023 | 36.8 |
| 2022 | 15.2 |
| 2021 | 3.8 |
| 2020 | 19.1 |
| 2019 | 18.8 |
| 2018 | 13.0 |
| 2017 | 7.2 |
| 2016 | 7.2 |
| 2015 | 2.2 |
| 2014 | 8.8 |
| 2013 | 5.9 |
| 2012 | 7.3 |
| 2011 | -5.0 |
| 2010 | -8.3 |
| 2009 | -10.1 |
| 2008 | -13.5 |
| 2007 | -10.5 |
| 2006 | -1.9 |
| 2005 | -1.9 |
| 2004 | -6.2 |
| 2003 | -4.3 |
| 2002 | -2.5 |
| 2001 | -0.6 |
| 2000 | -1.1 |
| 1999 | -0.8 |
| 1998 | -2.0 |
| 1997 | -2.2 |
| 1996 | -2.7 |
| 1995 | -1.9 |
| 1994 | -1.5 |
| 1993 | -1.2 |
| 1992 | -0.4 |
| 1991 | -0.5 |
| 1990 | -0.6 |
| 1989 | -0.6 |
| 1988 | -2.8 |
| 1987 | -3.2 |
| 1986 | -2.6 |
Comparison with other countries
| Country | Latest year | Value |
|---|---|---|
| Vietnam | 2025 | 31.7 |
| Thailand | 2025 | 22.4 |
| Indonesia | 2025 | 33.3 |
| Malaysia | 2025 | 26.2 |
| Philippines | 2025 | -66.7 |
| Singapore | 2025 | 213.8 |
| Cambodia | 2025 | 0.6 |
| Laos | 2016 | -1.4 |
| China | 2025 | 816.2 |
How to cite (APA 7)
World Bank. (2026). External balance on goods and services (current US$), Vietnam [Data set]. World Development Indicators. https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/NE.RSB.GNFS.CD?locations=VN
Licence: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0). Retrieved 2026-11-02. The CSV has one row per period
with the variable name ne_rsb_gnfs_cd, ready for Stata, R or SPSS.