{
  "topic": "services_ict_exports",
  "title": "Services trade & ICT exports SEA",
  "as_of": "2026-09-14",
  "coverage": "ASEAN-10 + Timor-Leste (SEA-11)",
  "pillar": "Growth engines",
  "complements": [
    "topics/digital_landscape/",
    "topics/trade_dependence/",
    "topics/tourism_recovery/",
    "topics/innovation_rd/",
    "topics/external_balance/"
  ],
  "metrics": [
    "svc_exports_usd",
    "svc_exports_bn",
    "svc_imports_usd",
    "svc_imports_bn",
    "svc_balance_usd",
    "ict_exports_usd",
    "ict_exports_bn",
    "ict_pct_svc_exports",
    "travel_pct_svc_exports",
    "cmcp_pct_svc_exports",
    "transport_pct_svc_exports",
    "svc_trade_pct_gdp"
  ],
  "sources": [
    {
      "id": "wdi_svc_exports",
      "name": "World Bank WDI BX.GSR.NFSV.CD \u2014 Service exports (BoP, current US$)",
      "vintage": "API lastupdated 2026-07-13; country extracts 2026-09-14",
      "url": "https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/BX.GSR.NFSV.CD",
      "api": "https://api.worldbank.org/v2/country/{iso}/indicator/BX.GSR.NFSV.CD",
      "raw": "_raw/wdi_BX.GSR.NFSV.CD.json"
    },
    {
      "id": "wdi_svc_imports",
      "name": "World Bank WDI BM.GSR.NFSV.CD \u2014 Service imports (BoP, current US$)",
      "url": "https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/BM.GSR.NFSV.CD",
      "raw": "_raw/wdi_BM.GSR.NFSV.CD.json"
    },
    {
      "id": "wdi_ict",
      "name": "World Bank WDI BX.GSR.CCIS.CD / BX.GSR.CCIS.ZS \u2014 ICT service exports",
      "url": "https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/BX.GSR.CCIS.CD",
      "raw": [
        "_raw/wdi_BX.GSR.CCIS.CD.json",
        "_raw/wdi_BX.GSR.CCIS.ZS.json"
      ],
      "gap": "VNM null throughout extract"
    },
    {
      "id": "wdi_composition",
      "name": "WDI BX.GSR.TRVL.ZS \u00b7 BX.GSR.CMCP.ZS \u00b7 BX.GSR.TRAN.ZS",
      "raw": [
        "_raw/wdi_BX.GSR.TRVL.ZS.json",
        "_raw/wdi_BX.GSR.CMCP.ZS.json",
        "_raw/wdi_BX.GSR.TRAN.ZS.json"
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "wdi_svc_gdp",
      "name": "World Bank WDI BG.GSR.NFSV.GD.ZS \u2014 Trade in services (% of GDP)",
      "url": "https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/BG.GSR.NFSV.GD.ZS",
      "raw": "_raw/wdi_BG.GSR.NFSV.GD.ZS.json"
    }
  ],
  "cross_checks_not_scoreboard": [
    {
      "id": "bsp_ph_svc_2024",
      "note": "BSP/BusinessWorld: PH services exports ~USD 51.98bn 2024 (+7.5%) \u2014 context; scoreboard locks WDI 2025 51.49bn",
      "urls": [
        "https://wealthinsights.metrobank.com.ph/bworldonline/phl-services-trade-slumps-in-2024-bsp",
        "https://www.pna.gov.ph/articles/1246701"
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "ibpap_itbpm_2024",
      "note": "IBPAP/IBPAPAP IT-BPM industry revenue USD 38bn 2024 \u2014 industry concept; NEVER equate to BX.GSR.CCIS",
      "url": "https://www.philstar.com/business/2025/01/16/2414464/it-bpm-revenues-hit-38-billion-2024"
    },
    {
      "id": "iseas_2025_32",
      "note": "ISEAS Perspective 2025/32 \u2014 DDS share narrative (PH high among ASEAN-6); not a locked cell",
      "url": "https://www.iseas.edu.sg/articles-commentaries/iseas-perspective/2025-32-cross-border-digitally-delivered-services-in-southeast-asia-growing-amid-challenges-by-tham-siew-yean"
    }
  ],
  "out_of_scope": [
    "ST.INT.RCPT.CD tourism receipts as comparable recovery series",
    "Equating IBPAP industry revenue to BoP ICT",
    "Inventing Vietnam ICT / composition shares",
    "Averaging scale US$ with % shares",
    "Putting Singapore on PH peer absolute US$ bars",
    "Numbeo or crowd sources"
  ],
  "api_note": "ISO3 country-by-country WDI pulls (semicolon multi-country can truncate)",
  "linear": "MED2-65"
}