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Trade Intelligence
Trade is shifting from commodities to intelligence. As physical goods give way to knowledge-intensive services (computer and information services, intellectual property, and professional and business services), a rising share of what crosses borders is intelligence rather than product.
World trade composition, 2005 to 2024. Goods share (dashed) has declined as intelligence-core services grow their footprint. All values shown as share of total world trade (percent).
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Countries ranked by Intelligence Intensity (intelligence services as a share of total trade) for the selected year. Click any row to load that country in the drill-down below.
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RCA above 1.0 (highlighted) means the country is more specialized in intelligence services than the world average. Click any row to load the country drill-down.
Choropleth for 2024. Toggle between Intelligence Intensity (share of trade that is knowledge-intensive services) and Intelligence RCA (specialization relative to world average). Click a country to load the drill-down.
Top bilateral export corridors for intelligence services in 2024. Arc width scales with flow value. Hover an arc for the corridor name and value.
Bilateral exports of intelligence services (intellectual property, computer and information, and other business services) for 2024.
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A note on measurement
Cross-border AI inference, the tokens that AI services are metered in, is not a line item in any official trade statistic. The closest measured proxies in BaTIS are SI (telecommunications, computer, and information services) and SH (charges for the use of intellectual property). This page measures those reported services; it does not estimate AI token trade, which official statistics do not yet capture.
Intelligence services definition: Intelligence services are the OECD-WTO BaTIS EBOPS-2010 categories SH (charges for the use of intellectual property), SI (telecommunications, computer, and information services), and SJ (other business services).
Intelligence Intensity: intelligence services exports divided by (goods exports + total services exports).
Intelligence RCA: a country's intelligence share of its services exports, divided by the world's intelligence share of services exports. Above 1.0 means specialized.
Sources: OECD-WTO Balanced Trade in Services (BaTIS), BPM6, December 2025 edition, covering 2005 to 2024. Goods trade from CEPII BACI.
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