Printing and writing papers — Import value, per square kilometre by country

Printing and writing papers — Import value divided by Land area (sq. km), matched on country and year. Neither publisher issues this ratio as a series; it is computed here from both.

Countries reporting
184
Highest
234.14 1000 USD per square kilometre
Singapore
Lowest
0.0007 1000 USD per square kilometre
Mauritania
Median
0.2983 1000 USD per square kilometre
Years covered
63
1961–2023
Data points
8,395

What the numbers show

Printing and writing papers — Import value, per square kilometre is currently reported for 184 countries. The highest value is 234.14 1000 USD per square kilometre in Singapore; the lowest is 0.0007 1000 USD per square kilometre in Mauritania.

The median across all reporting countries is 0.2983 1000 USD per square kilometre, and the mean is 4.08 1000 USD per square kilometre.

Over the past decade 91 countries rose and 84 fell. The largest increase was in South Sudan (up 8,590.6%), and the largest decrease in Cayman Islands (down 84.2%).

Printing and writing papers — Import value, per square kilometre: full country ranking

#Country LatestYear 10-year changeTrend
1 Singapore 234.14 1000 USD per square kilometre 2023 down 78.0% volatile
2 Malta 185.48 1000 USD per square kilometre 2023 up 8.9% volatile
3 Gibraltar 74.5 1000 USD per square kilometre 2023 volatile
4 Belgium 25.88 1000 USD per square kilometre 2023 down 46.0% falling
5 Bahrain 21.59 1000 USD per square kilometre 2023 up 9.9% volatile
6 Bermuda 19.94 1000 USD per square kilometre 2023 falling
7 Barbados 9.99 1000 USD per square kilometre 2023 down 23.8% volatile
8 Switzerland 9.27 1000 USD per square kilometre 2023 down 26.4% volatile
9 Aruba 8.71 1000 USD per square kilometre 2023 down 23.5% volatile
10 Germany 8.35 1000 USD per square kilometre 2023 down 33.9% volatile
11 Maldives 6.91 1000 USD per square kilometre 2023 down 21.9% rising
12 Luxembourg 6.39 1000 USD per square kilometre 2023 down 65.5% volatile
13 Israel 6.22 1000 USD per square kilometre 2023 down 9.8% volatile
14 United Arab Emirates 6.18 1000 USD per square kilometre 2023 up 49.5% volatile
15 Lebanon 5.68 1000 USD per square kilometre 2023 down 34.8% volatile
16 Czechia 5.05 1000 USD per square kilometre 2023 down 6.1% rising
17 Slovenia 4.8 1000 USD per square kilometre 2023 down 32.6% volatile
18 Denmark 4.3 1000 USD per square kilometre 2023 down 46.8% volatile
19 Mauritius 3.9 1000 USD per square kilometre 2023 down 27.6% volatile
20 Cayman Islands 3.88 1000 USD per square kilometre 2023 down 84.2% volatile
21 Italy 3.79 1000 USD per square kilometre 2023 down 24.5% volatile
22 France 3.72 1000 USD per square kilometre 2023 down 26.2% volatile
23 Austria 3.69 1000 USD per square kilometre 2023 down 35.3% volatile
24 Andorra 3.64 1000 USD per square kilometre 2023 falling
25 Poland 3.42 1000 USD per square kilometre 2023 down 2.0% volatile
26 Kuwait 3.12 1000 USD per square kilometre 2023 down 15.0% volatile
27 Trinidad and Tobago 3 1000 USD per square kilometre 2023 down 19.7% volatile
28 Sri Lanka 2.95 1000 USD per square kilometre 2023 up 39.9% volatile
29 Qatar 2.71 1000 USD per square kilometre 2023 up 3.8% volatile
30 Slovakia 2.62 1000 USD per square kilometre 2023 down 25.8% rising
31 British Virgin Islands 2.5 1000 USD per square kilometre 2023 up 60.9% rising
32 Hungary 2.47 1000 USD per square kilometre 2023 down 11.0% volatile
33 Tuvalu 2 1000 USD per square kilometre 2023 up 1,100.0% volatile
34 Portugal 1.99 1000 USD per square kilometre 2023 down 29.0% volatile
35 Dominican Republic 1.95 1000 USD per square kilometre 2023 up 83.6% volatile
36 Seychelles 1.91 1000 USD per square kilometre 2023 down 21.0% volatile
37 Croatia 1.82 1000 USD per square kilometre 2023 up 6.2% rising
38 Spain 1.64 1000 USD per square kilometre 2023 down 27.6% volatile
39 Palestine, State of 1.61 1000 USD per square kilometre 2023 down 78.9% falling
40 Cyprus 1.59 1000 USD per square kilometre 2023 down 31.2% volatile
41 El Salvador 1.56 1000 USD per square kilometre 2023 up 8.7% volatile
42 Greece 1.53 1000 USD per square kilometre 2023 down 12.7% volatile
43 Guam 1.51 1000 USD per square kilometre 2023 volatile
44 Japan 1.5 1000 USD per square kilometre 2023 down 55.5% volatile
45 Estonia 1.49 1000 USD per square kilometre 2023 down 20.8% volatile
46 Malaysia 1.48 1000 USD per square kilometre 2023 down 6.1% volatile
47 Lithuania 1.46 1000 USD per square kilometre 2023 up 0.6% volatile
48 Ireland 1.39 1000 USD per square kilometre 2023 down 42.2% volatile
49 Latvia 1.29 1000 USD per square kilometre 2023 down 4.5% volatile
50 Jamaica 1.16 1000 USD per square kilometre 2023 down 2.4% volatile
51 Saint Lucia 1.15 1000 USD per square kilometre 2023 down 6.8% falling
52 Philippines 1.12 1000 USD per square kilometre 2023 up 125.8% volatile
53 Serbia 1.12 1000 USD per square kilometre 2023 up 21.4% falling
54 Bangladesh 1.01 1000 USD per square kilometre 2023 up 23.7% volatile
55 Romania 0.9243 1000 USD per square kilometre 2023 down 3.4% volatile
56 Bulgaria 0.9216 1000 USD per square kilometre 2023 up 14.5% volatile
57 Saint Martin (French part) 0.92 1000 USD per square kilometre 2023 unchanged flat
58 Djibouti 0.8284 1000 USD per square kilometre 2023 up 26.1% volatile
59 Costa Rica 0.8161 1000 USD per square kilometre 2023 down 21.0% volatile
60 Guatemala 0.737 1000 USD per square kilometre 2023 down 4.6% volatile
61 Bosnia and Herzegovina 0.7197 1000 USD per square kilometre 2023 up 20.7% volatile
62 Jordan 0.7125 1000 USD per square kilometre 2023 up 59.2% volatile
63 Faroe Islands 0.6832 1000 USD per square kilometre 2023 down 4.1% rising
64 Saint Vincent and the Grenadines 0.6128 1000 USD per square kilometre 2023 up 77.0% volatile
65 North Macedonia 0.5985 1000 USD per square kilometre 2023 down 10.4% rising
66 Thailand 0.5951 1000 USD per square kilometre 2023 down 5.3% volatile
67 Marshall Islands 0.5611 1000 USD per square kilometre 2023 up 260.7% volatile
68 Egypt 0.5505 1000 USD per square kilometre 2023 up 84.3% volatile
69 Albania 0.5407 1000 USD per square kilometre 2023 down 8.5% volatile
70 Tonga 0.5361 1000 USD per square kilometre 2023 up 235.7% volatile
71 Saint Kitts and Nevis 0.5346 1000 USD per square kilometre 2023 up 44.8% rising
72 Armenia 0.5127 1000 USD per square kilometre 2023 up 18.9% volatile
73 Cambodia 0.4926 1000 USD per square kilometre 2023 up 108.4% volatile
74 Sweden 0.4882 1000 USD per square kilometre 2023 down 36.7% volatile
75 Nepal 0.4797 1000 USD per square kilometre 2023 up 407.9% volatile
76 Tunisia 0.471 1000 USD per square kilometre 2023 up 66.8% volatile
77 Grenada 0.4647 1000 USD per square kilometre 2023 up 35.0% rising
78 Montenegro 0.4564 1000 USD per square kilometre 2023 up 27.2% rising
79 Antigua and Barbuda 0.45 1000 USD per square kilometre 2023 up 214.3% volatile
80 Mexico 0.4237 1000 USD per square kilometre 2023 down 9.0% volatile
81 Fiji 0.4233 1000 USD per square kilometre 2023 up 37.2% volatile
82 Bahamas 0.4141 1000 USD per square kilometre 2023 down 2.3% volatile
83 Azerbaijan 0.4135 1000 USD per square kilometre 2023 up 197.7% volatile
84 Nigeria 0.4118 1000 USD per square kilometre 2023 up 71.6% volatile
85 Ecuador 0.3865 1000 USD per square kilometre 2023 down 32.4% volatile
86 Cuba 0.3595 1000 USD per square kilometre 2023 up 48.4% volatile
87 Morocco 0.3537 1000 USD per square kilometre 2023 up 51.5% volatile
88 Honduras 0.3511 1000 USD per square kilometre 2023 up 45.5% volatile
89 Haiti 0.3448 1000 USD per square kilometre 2023 up 122.1% volatile
90 French Polynesia 0.3281 1000 USD per square kilometre 2023 down 71.4% rising
91 New Zealand 0.3078 1000 USD per square kilometre 2023 down 61.9% volatile
92 India 0.3049 1000 USD per square kilometre 2023 up 29.6% volatile
93 Panama 0.2917 1000 USD per square kilometre 2023 down 23.2% volatile
94 Sao Tome and Principe 0.2844 1000 USD per square kilometre 2023 up 30.0% volatile
95 Georgia 0.2825 1000 USD per square kilometre 2023 up 18.6% volatile
96 Ukraine 0.2722 1000 USD per square kilometre 2023 up 28.8% volatile
97 Iraq 0.2658 1000 USD per square kilometre 2023 up 863.4% volatile
98 Chile 0.244 1000 USD per square kilometre 2023 down 41.8% volatile
99 Comoros 0.2305 1000 USD per square kilometre 2023 volatile
100 American Samoa 0.22 1000 USD per square kilometre 2023 rising
101 Turks and Caicos Islands 0.2189 1000 USD per square kilometre 2023 up 89.1% volatile
102 Eswatini 0.2049 1000 USD per square kilometre 2023 up 46.4% rising
103 Naoero 0.2 1000 USD per square kilometre 2023 down 33.3% volatile
104 Norway 0.197 1000 USD per square kilometre 2023 down 60.9% volatile
105 Ghana 0.1901 1000 USD per square kilometre 2023 up 12.0% volatile
106 Uruguay 0.1865 1000 USD per square kilometre 2023 down 2.5% volatile
107 Dominica 0.1853 1000 USD per square kilometre 2023 down 15.2% volatile
108 Peru 0.1852 1000 USD per square kilometre 2023 down 15.4% volatile
109 South Africa 0.1848 1000 USD per square kilometre 2023 down 34.4% volatile
110 Samoa 0.1806 1000 USD per square kilometre 2023 up 8.0% volatile
111 Kenya 0.1711 1000 USD per square kilometre 2023 up 63.9% volatile
112 Myanmar 0.1667 1000 USD per square kilometre 2023 up 77.3% volatile
113 Uzbekistan 0.1666 1000 USD per square kilometre 2023 up 116.3% volatile
114 Pakistan 0.1638 1000 USD per square kilometre 2023 up 33.7% volatile
115 New Caledonia 0.1628 1000 USD per square kilometre 2023 down 30.7% volatile
116 Nicaragua 0.1616 1000 USD per square kilometre 2023 up 95.0% volatile
117 Finland 0.1583 1000 USD per square kilometre 2023 down 52.2% volatile
118 Colombia 0.1484 1000 USD per square kilometre 2023 up 34.4% volatile
119 Saudi Arabia 0.144 1000 USD per square kilometre 2023 down 32.7% volatile
120 China 0.13 1000 USD per square kilometre 2023 down 18.3% volatile
121 Uganda 0.1284 1000 USD per square kilometre 2023 down 8.6% volatile
122 Kiribati 0.1284 1000 USD per square kilometre 2023 volatile
123 Palau 0.1217 1000 USD per square kilometre 2023 up 60.0% volatile
124 Rwanda 0.1185 1000 USD per square kilometre 2023 up 23.3% volatile
125 Paraguay 0.1161 1000 USD per square kilometre 2023 down 24.4% volatile
126 Malawi 0.1136 1000 USD per square kilometre 2023 up 59.7% volatile
127 Tajikistan 0.1105 1000 USD per square kilometre 2023 up 370.8% volatile
128 Indonesia 0.1076 1000 USD per square kilometre 2023 up 4.5% volatile
129 Belarus 0.1047 1000 USD per square kilometre 2023 down 70.5% volatile
130 Argentina 0.1018 1000 USD per square kilometre 2023 down 30.8% volatile
131 Oman 0.0957 1000 USD per square kilometre 2023 up 15.0% volatile
132 Ethiopia 0.0874 1000 USD per square kilometre 2023 up 60.0% volatile
133 Gambia 0.0874 1000 USD per square kilometre 2023 down 33.1% volatile
134 Algeria 0.086 1000 USD per square kilometre 2023 up 28.4% volatile
135 Benin 0.0808 1000 USD per square kilometre 2023 up 23.7% volatile
136 Cameroon 0.0788 1000 USD per square kilometre 2023 up 148.0% volatile
137 Lesotho 0.0764 1000 USD per square kilometre 2023 down 26.2% falling
138 Yemen 0.0761 1000 USD per square kilometre 2023 up 19.2% volatile
139 Canada 0.0597 1000 USD per square kilometre 2023 down 46.3% volatile
140 Equatorial Guinea 0.058 1000 USD per square kilometre 2023 up 167.2% volatile
141 Burundi 0.0572 1000 USD per square kilometre 2023 down 10.7% volatile
142 Vanuatu 0.0512 1000 USD per square kilometre 2023 up 60.8% volatile
143 Sierra Leone 0.0487 1000 USD per square kilometre 2023 up 66.3% volatile
144 Zimbabwe 0.0451 1000 USD per square kilometre 2023 up 10.9% volatile
145 Australia 0.0443 1000 USD per square kilometre 2023 down 60.4% volatile
146 Senegal 0.0435 1000 USD per square kilometre 2023 down 40.2% volatile
147 Bhutan 0.0435 1000 USD per square kilometre 2023 up 273.6% volatile
148 Congo 0.0427 1000 USD per square kilometre 2023 up 202.4% volatile
149 Kyrgyzstan 0.0396 1000 USD per square kilometre 2023 down 31.2% volatile
150 Iceland 0.0385 1000 USD per square kilometre 2023 down 57.6% volatile
151 Togo 0.0317 1000 USD per square kilometre 2023 down 80.2% volatile
152 Kazakhstan 0.031 1000 USD per square kilometre 2023 down 2.8% volatile
153 Guinea 0.0308 1000 USD per square kilometre 2023 up 177.5% volatile
154 Gabon 0.0308 1000 USD per square kilometre 2023 down 6.3% volatile
155 Belize 0.0268 1000 USD per square kilometre 2023 down 10.8% volatile
156 Brazil 0.0257 1000 USD per square kilometre 2023 down 64.7% volatile
157 Solomon Islands 0.0248 1000 USD per square kilometre 2023 up 218.8% volatile
158 Madagascar 0.0247 1000 USD per square kilometre 2023 up 120.5% volatile
159 Zambia 0.0245 1000 USD per square kilometre 2023 up 69.4% volatile
160 Angola 0.0231 1000 USD per square kilometre 2023 down 5.1% volatile
161 Liberia 0.0227 1000 USD per square kilometre 2023 up 25.9% volatile
162 Turkmenistan 0.0218 1000 USD per square kilometre 2023 up 172.2% volatile
163 Guinea-Bissau 0.0196 1000 USD per square kilometre 2023 up 308.1% volatile
164 Papua New Guinea 0.0179 1000 USD per square kilometre 2023 up 54.7% rising
165 Burkina Faso 0.0178 1000 USD per square kilometre 2023 up 53.8% volatile
166 Northern Mariana Islands 0.0174 1000 USD per square kilometre 2023 unchanged volatile
167 Mozambique 0.0162 1000 USD per square kilometre 2023 up 15.0% volatile
168 Namibia 0.0154 1000 USD per square kilometre 2023 up 102.8% volatile
169 Botswana 0.0154 1000 USD per square kilometre 2023 up 48.5% rising
170 Libya 0.0148 1000 USD per square kilometre 2023 up 72.0% volatile
171 Sudan 0.0127 1000 USD per square kilometre 2023 up 54.2% falling
172 Suriname 0.0127 1000 USD per square kilometre 2023 down 41.3% volatile
173 Guyana 0.0098 1000 USD per square kilometre 2023 down 15.9% volatile
174 Somalia 0.0094 1000 USD per square kilometre 2023 up 642.8% volatile
175 Mongolia 0.0067 1000 USD per square kilometre 2023 up 117.8% volatile
176 South Sudan 0.0044 1000 USD per square kilometre 2023 up 8,590.6% volatile
177 Eritrea 0.0041 1000 USD per square kilometre 2023 down 27.0% volatile
178 Afghanistan 0.0039 1000 USD per square kilometre 2023 up 159.4% volatile
179 Greenland 0.0017 1000 USD per square kilometre 2023 up 61.6% rising
180 Mali 0.0015 1000 USD per square kilometre 2023 up 43.7% volatile
181 Central African Republic 0.0014 1000 USD per square kilometre 2023 up 796.0% volatile
182 Chad 0.0009 1000 USD per square kilometre 2023 up 127.7% volatile
183 Niger 0.0008 1000 USD per square kilometre 2023 down 30.1% volatile
184 Mauritania 0.0007 1000 USD per square kilometre 2023 down 29.7% volatile

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Aggregates are excluded from the country ranking above so that a region can never outrank a country.

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Printing and writing papers — Import value, per square kilometre
Unit
1000 USD per square kilometre
Source
Statizoid (derived)
Licence
Derived by Statizoid from the sources named on the page
Coverage
185 places, 8,395 data points, 1961–2023
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Printing and writing papers — Import value divided by Land area (sq. km), matched on country and year. Neither publisher issues this ratio as a series; it is computed here from both.