Billion-dollar digital service exporters rose from 35 to 60

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World Bank WDI indicator BX.GSR.CCIS.CD, ICT service exports (balance of payments, current US$): computer, telecommunications and information services, from IMF balance of payments statistics as compiled by the World Bank (WDI edition of 8 Oct 2026), read from the World Bank API via the progrss vault (dataset row with URL, edition and retrieval date; WDI has 21 value-check matches and no mismatches). Counting rule (progrss calculation): a country is counted when its exports are US$1 billion or more in the year. Same 151 countries with a figure in both 2010 and 2024 (aggregates excluded; 22 countries with a 2010 figure but none for 2024 are left out, among them Lebanon, Belarus and Senegal). Values are in current dollars: with the threshold raised by US consumer-price inflation 2010-2024 (to about $1.44 billion), 57 countries cross it in 2024, so the rise is not an inflation effect. 2015: 39 of the 151; 2023: 60. In the club in both years (35): Argentina, Australia, Austria, Belgium, Canada, China, Czechia, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Hong Kong, Hungary, India, Indonesia, Ireland, Israel, Italy, Japan, Kuwait, Luxembourg, Malaysia, Morocco, Netherlands, Norway, Philippines, Poland, Romania, Russia, Singapore, South Korea, Sweden, Switzerland, United Kingdom, United States. Joined (25), 2010 then 2024, US$ billion: Cyprus 0.70 → 9.52, Ukraine 0.72 → 6.61, Brazil 0.61 → 6.18, Portugal 0.94 → 5.58, Türkiye 0.48 → 5.34, Serbia 0.32 → 4.47, Bulgaria 0.58 → 4.39, Pakistan 0.43 → 3.63, Estonia 0.40 → 3.56, Lithuania 0.14 → 2.84, Costa Rica 0.54 → 2.43, Slovakia 0.45 → 2.28, Saudi Arabia 0.34 → 2.17, Colombia 0.47 → 2.08, Croatia 0.39 → 1.93, Armenia 0.13 → 1.81, Greece 0.87 → 1.78, Mexico 0.61 → 1.76, Egypt 1.00 (just under $1 billion: 0.996) → 1.71, South Africa 0.47 → 1.53, Uruguay 0.21 → 1.49, Latvia 0.21 → 1.47, Bahrain 0.80 → 1.41, New Zealand 0.49 → 1.18, Slovenia 0.44 → 1.17. Left: none. Exports are where the selling firm is resident: Ireland's and Cyprus's totals include multinationals' booking hubs. Map: yellow = the 25 that joined; hover shows 2024 exports. The third takeaway's last clause is Interpretation. Kazakhstan's 2024 figure is US$0.9996 billion, just under the line.