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8.6 in 2014, the share of the OIC has been gradually decreased in the last four years, including
2018. Moreover, the share of the OIC commercial services exports in global exports has been
below vis-à-vis the share of the OIC commercial services imports and total OIC commercial
services trade.
However, the share of OIC services export in global commercial service exports has slightly
increased from 6.1 in 2013 to 6.7 in 2018, whereas the share of OIC services imports decreased
from 10.3 to 9.6 in the same period. The Figure 38 below shows the recent trends regarding the
share of the OIC in global services trade.
Figure 38: Share of OIC in Global Commercial Services Trade
Source: UNCTADSTAT
The top ten performers in total OIC commercial services exports were the UAE, Turkey and
Malaysia followed by Indonesia, Egypt, Morocco, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Lebanon and Bahrain. The
commercial services exports in the OIC mainly concentrated on the top ten performers
demonstrated in Figure 39. These countries as a whole represent 75.2 per cent of the total OIC
commercial services exports.
Figure 39: Top Commercial Services Exporters among the OIC Member Countries, 2018
Source: UNCTADSTAT
6.3 6.4 6.1 6.3 6.1
6.7 6.7 6.6 6.7 6.7
9.7 9.8 10.1 10.5 10.3 10.6 10.2
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Lebanon
Saudi Arabia
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Morocco
Egypt
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