Qatar’s goods surplus equals about US$20.7k per resident; Ireland is near US$18.1k.
Goods surplus per resident is measured as the merchandise trade surplus divided by population for selected surplus economies. The data ranks Qatar, Ireland, Norway, Brunei and Switzerland using World Integrated Trade Solution trade balances and population denominators. Qatar leads at about US$20.7k per resident, with Ireland near US$18.1k and Norway near US$11.8k. The measure uses goods trade only, so it does not include services balances.
| Rank | Entry | Value |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Qatar | US$20.7k/person |
| 2 | Ireland | US$18.1k/person |
| 3 | Norway | US$11.8k/person |
| 4 | Brunei | US$8.58k/person |
| 5 | Switzerland | US$8.28k/person |
Source 1: World Integrated Trade Solution (WITS) Country Snapshot
Publisher: World Bank WITS / UN Comtrade
Dataset/table: WITS Country Snapshot — merchandise trade · World Integrated Trade Solution (WITS)
Units: US dollars
Date checked: 2026-05-17
Evidence: Reports Qatar's 2024 merchandise trade balance of US$59.244B.
Source 2: World Integrated Trade Solution (WITS) Country Snapshot
Publisher: World Bank WITS / UN Comtrade
Dataset/table: WITS Country Snapshot — merchandise trade · World Integrated Trade Solution (WITS)
Units: US dollars
Date checked: 2026-05-17
Evidence: Reports Ireland's 2024 merchandise trade balance of US$97.667B.
Source 3: World Integrated Trade Solution (WITS) Country Snapshot
Publisher: World Bank WITS / UN Comtrade
Dataset/table: WITS Country Snapshot — merchandise trade · World Integrated Trade Solution (WITS)
Units: US dollars
Date checked: 2026-05-17
Evidence: Reports Norway's latest merchandise trade balance of US$65.497B.
Source 4: World Integrated Trade Solution (WITS) Country Snapshot
Publisher: World Bank WITS / UN Comtrade
Dataset/table: WITS Country Snapshot — merchandise trade · World Integrated Trade Solution (WITS)
Units: US dollars
Date checked: 2026-05-17
Evidence: Reports Brunei's 2024 merchandise trade balance of US$3.964B.
Source 5: World Integrated Trade Solution (WITS) Country Snapshot
Publisher: World Bank WITS / UN Comtrade
Dataset/table: WITS Country Snapshot — merchandise trade · World Integrated Trade Solution (WITS)
Units: US dollars
Date checked: 2026-05-17
Evidence: Reports Switzerland's 2024 merchandise trade balance of US$74.575B.
Source 6: World Bank World Development Indicators
Publisher: World Bank
Dataset/table: World Development Indicators
Units: Persons
Date checked: 2026-05-17
Evidence: Supports population denominators for per-resident trade-balance calculations.
World Integrated Trade Solution merchandise exports are FOB and imports are CIF. Countries are ranked from World Integrated Trade Solution country snapshots and checked against World Development Indicators population data.
Use World Integrated Trade Solution merchandise trade balance in current US dollars divided by World Bank total population. Values are rounded to the nearest US$10 per resident for charting.
Goods trade balances come from World Integrated Trade Solution / UN Comtrade and population from World Bank World Development Indicators, both within the World Bank source family.
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