Business environment; openness economy by industry 1990-2006

This table provides an overview of the evolution of the openness of the economy for a number of countries. An open economy without barriers to imports and exports is generally favourable to the growth of gross domestic product. A country with an open economy is characterised by intensive trade relations with foreign countries. Please note: In order to make an international comparison possible, the figures presented here use internationally comparable definitions, which sometimes differ from the definitions normally used by CBS. This may result in differences between these figures and national published elsewhere on the CBS website. figures. Data available from 1990-2006 Status of the figures The external source of these figures provides regularly updated data for previous periods. These adjusted data are not marked as such in the table. Changes as of January 2020 None, table has been discontinued. When are new figures coming? No longer applicable.