Data · Trade & foreign investment
Merchandise imports (current US$): Vietnam, 1960–2025
- Latest (2025)
- 453.8 USD billion
- Source
- World Bank
- Code
- TM.VAL.MRCH.CD.WT
- Frequency
- Yearly
Definition
Merchandise imports includes goods whose economic ownership is changed from a non-resident to a resident and that are not included in the following specific categories: goods under merchanting, non-monetary gold, and parts of travel, construction, and government goods and services n.i.e. 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 1960 to 2025 (66 years of data). It moved from 0.2 to 453.8 USD billion. The highest value was 453.8 in 2025 and the lowest 0.2 in 1962. The comparison below sets Vietnam against 9 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 | 453.8 |
| 2024 | 380.5 |
| 2023 | 325.8 |
| 2022 | 359.1 |
| 2021 | 332.5 |
| 2020 | 262.7 |
| 2019 | 253.4 |
| 2018 | 236.9 |
| 2017 | 212.9 |
| 2016 | 174.8 |
| 2015 | 165.6 |
| 2014 | 147.8 |
| 2013 | 132.0 |
| 2012 | 113.8 |
| 2011 | 106.8 |
| 2010 | 84.8 |
| 2009 | 69.9 |
| 2008 | 80.7 |
| 2007 | 62.7 |
| 2006 | 45.0 |
| 2005 | 36.8 |
| 2004 | 32.0 |
| 2003 | 25.3 |
| 2002 | 19.7 |
| 2001 | 16.2 |
| 2000 | 15.6 |
| 1999 | 11.7 |
| 1998 | 11.5 |
| 1997 | 11.6 |
| 1996 | 11.1 |
| 1995 | 8.2 |
| 1994 | 5.8 |
| 1993 | 3.5 |
| 1992 | 2.5 |
| 1991 | 2.3 |
| 1990 | 2.8 |
| 1989 | 2.6 |
| 1988 | 2.8 |
| 1987 | 2.5 |
| 1986 | 2.2 |
| 1985 | 1.9 |
| 1984 | 1.7 |
| 1983 | 1.5 |
| 1982 | 1.5 |
| 1981 | 1.4 |
| 1980 | 1.3 |
| 1979 | 1.6 |
| 1978 | 1.5 |
| 1977 | 1.4 |
| 1976 | 1.2 |
| 1975 | 1.1 |
| 1974 | 0.3 |
| 1973 | 0.6 |
| 1972 | 0.7 |
| 1971 | 0.6 |
| 1970 | 0.4 |
| 1969 | 0.5 |
| 1968 | 0.3 |
| 1967 | 0.4 |
| 1966 | 0.3 |
| 1965 | 0.2 |
| 1964 | 0.2 |
| 1963 | 0.2 |
| 1962 | 0.2 |
| 1961 | 0.3 |
| 1960 | 0.2 |
Comparison with other countries
| Country | Latest year | Value |
|---|---|---|
| Vietnam | 2025 | 453.8 |
| Thailand | 2025 | 344.9 |
| Indonesia | 2025 | 241.9 |
| Malaysia | 2025 | 340.4 |
| Philippines | 2025 | 141.2 |
| Singapore | 2025 | 505.8 |
| Cambodia | 2025 | 33.9 |
| Laos | 2025 | 10.3 |
| Myanmar | 2025 | 14.3 |
| China | 2025 | 2,582.9 |
How to cite (APA 7)
World Bank. (2026). Merchandise imports (current US$), Vietnam [Data set]. World Development Indicators. https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/TM.VAL.MRCH.CD.WT?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 tm_val_mrch_cd_wt, ready for Stata, R or SPSS.