Global Digital Trade Exports Hit $7.75T in 2025, Up 7.1%

The headline figure matters less than the composition shift it implies: digital trade is now growing faster than total global trade for a consecutive year, and its share of goods and services exports has climbed 2.6 percentage points since 2021. That trajectory is the backdrop against which cross-border payment rails, data-localization rules and digital-services taxation get negotiated, since a larger slice of trade flows through channels that existing frameworks handle unevenly. Whether the growth rate holds as more economies tighten digital trade rules is the open question.