Global Merchandise Exports Stay Near All-time Highs in May 2025

International Merchandise Trade Statistics, World and Country Group Aggregates, May 2025

(Contributors: Levan Karsaulidze and Huong Lan Vu)

Merchandise exports both for Advanced Economies and for Emerging Market and Developing Economies—and for the world as a whole—remained near all-time highs despite a moderate decline in May 2025. This slight downturn reflects regional variations in merchandise exports across economies.
 
Seasonally adjusted global merchandise exports fell 1.0 percent month-on-month in May 2025. Reductions were observed in both Emerging Market and Developing Economies and Advanced Economies, 1.3 and 0.8 percent, respectively. Emerging and Developing Europe was the only region that recorded export growth (equal to 1.2 percent). Exports from Emerging and Developing Asia, Middle East and Central Asia, Latin America and the Caribbean, and Sub-Saharan Africa dropped 1.3, 1.2, 2.6, and 4.8 percent, respectively. 
 
The year-on-year change in seasonally adjusted global merchandise exports equaled to 5.7 percent.

 

Notes: Seasonally adjusted world and country group aggregates are derived from a sample of 109 economies that report monthly merchandise exports to the World Trade Organization/International Financial Statistics.

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