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Trade in services, Annual, 2018
UNCTAD updates its comprehensive trade in services dataset and launches its first release of the Trade in Services Annual Bulletin.
The Trade in Services Annual Bulletin monitors world services trade, focusing on the last years' developments, main regional trends and top traders. It provides a brief, yet manifold synthesis of the evolution of international trade by principal services and presents selected trade-partners information.
Digitally-deliverable services, 2017
At $2.7 trillion, services exports that can be delivered digitally are 5 times the value of ICT services exports, at $0.5 trillions in 2017.
Thanks to increasing access to information and communications technologies (ICTs), services exports of both ICT services and of digitally-deliverable services have been growing at 7 to 8% annually over the past decade.
Handbook of statistics 2018
Reliable statistical information is indispensable for formulating sound policies and recommendations that may commit countries for many years as they strive to integrate into the world economy and improve the living standards of their citizens.
The Handbook provides a wide range of statistics and indicators relevant to the analysis of international trade, investment and development.

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In April 2019, commodity prices decreased by 2.2 percent year on year.

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Global services exports reached US$5.8 trillion in 2018, recording an annual increase of 7.7%.