That dollar amount for the Asian aggregation of countries results from an 18.5% increase from 5 years earlier in 2021 when exported goods from Asia totaled $8.44 trillion.
Year over year, the overall value of Asia’s exported goods accelerated by 11% compared to $9 trillion for 2024.
International sales of products originating from Asia represent 39% of the value of exports from all countries around the world. Asia’s percentage in 2025 exceeds that continent’s 38.1% share of overall exports back in 2021 and exceeds the 37.7% portion for 2024.
Calculated using statistics from the International Monetary Fund’s World Economic Outlook Database, the total Gross Domestic Product (GDP) for Asian countries on a Purchase Power Parity (PPP) basis amounted to roughly US$93.94 trillion for 2025.
Therefore, Asia’s total exported goods account for an estimated 10.6% of total Asian economic output in terms of GDP on PPP basis in 2025. That percentage beats 10.3% for the prior year.
Given Asia’s population of approximately 4.85 billion people for 2025, the total $10 trillion worth of products exported from Asian countries translates to about $2,100 for every person living in Asia. That dollar metric exceeds the average $1,900 per capita one year earlier during 2025.
Top Asian Export Countries
Below are the top Asian exporting entities that achieved the highest dollar value in global shipments during 2025. Also shown is each country’s percentage value change from 2021 plus its overall share of Asia’s overall exports.
The top 10 Asian exporters provided 90% of all international product sales from Asia during 2025.
- mainland China: US$3.776 trillion (37.8% of total; up 12.33% since 2021)
- Hong Kong: $754.7 billion (7.5%; up 12.28%)
- Japan: $738.7 billion (7.4%; down 2.5%)
- South Korea: $708.9 billion (7.1%; up 10%)
- Vietnam: $652.7 billion (6.5%; up 94.4%)
- Taiwan: $639 billion (6.4%; up 42.8%)
- Singapore: $565.9 billion (5.7%; up 23.6%)
- India: $446.6 billion (4.5%; up 13.1%)
- Malaysia: $375.3 billion (3.8%; up 25.4%)
- Thailand: $337.9 billion (3.4%; up 26.3%)
- Indonesia: $282.9 billion (2.8%; up 22.2%)
- Türkiye: $273.3 billion (2.7%; up 21.3%)
- Philippines: $83.8 billion (0.8%; up 12.2%)
- Kazakhstan: $79 billion (0.8%; up 31%)
- Bangladesh: $64.8 billion (0.6%; up 19.8%)
- Cambodia: $31.3 billion (0.3%; up 78%)
- Pakistan: $30.7 billion (0.3%; up 6.2%)
- Azerbaijan: $25 billion (0.3%; up 12.8%)
- Uzbekistan: $23.8 billion (0.2%; up 69.3%)
- Myanmar: $22.4 billion (0.2%; up 47.8%)
- Mongolia: $15.7 billion (0.2%; up 69.8%)
- Laos: $14.4 billion (0.1%; up 101.4%)
- Sri Lanka: $13.1 billion (0.1%; down 2%)
- Turkmenistan: $11 billion (0.1%; up 251.8%)
- Brunei Darussalam: $10.3 billion (0.1%; down 2.7%)
- Armenia: $8.3 billion (0.1%; up 180.8%)
- Georgia: $3.6 billion (0.04%; up 9.5%)
- Kyrgyzstan: $2.6 billion (0.03%; up 59%)
- Nepal: $2.4 billion (0.02%; up 43.1%)
- Tajikistan: $2.1 billion (0.02%; up 16.1%)
- Afghanistan: $1.5 billion (0.01%; down 25.7%)
- Macao: $1.1 billion (0.01%; down 19.3%)
- North Korea: $544.3 million (0.005%; up 209.4%)
- Bhutan: $519.4 million (0.005%; up 14.4%)
- Maldives: $143 million (0.001%; down 5.7%)
- Timordown Leste: $113.9 million (0.001%; down 75.2%)
Note: If applicable, an entry of 0% means no data was available for 2021.
Among the 36 Asian exporting nations used for this study, the majority (29) recorded increases in the value of their exports from 2021 to 2025.
Posting the strongest percentage gains compared were Turkmenistan (up 251.8% from 2021), North Korea (up 209.4%), Armenia (up 180.8%), Laos (up 101.4%), Vietnam (up 94.4%) then Cambodia (up 78%).
Asia’s 5-year decliners were led by exporters in Timor-Leste (down -75.2% from 2021), Afghanistan (down -25.7%), Macao (down -19.3%) and Maldives (down -5.7%).
Export sales from Asia’s largest economy China recorded a healthy 12.33% expansion.
See also Mongolia’s Top 10 Exports, Japan’s Top Trading Partners</a>, South Korea’s Top 10 Exports, China’s Top 10 Exports and Top 10 Exports from the Maldives
Research Sources:
Central Intelligence Agency, The World Factbook Field Listing: Exports and World Population, Central Intelligence Agency. Accessed on August 1, 2026
International Monetary Fund, World Economic Outlook Database (GDP based on Purchasing Power Parity). Accessed on August 1, 2026
International Trade Centre, Trade Map. Accessed on August 1, 2026