India sits second in a new global ranking of tech services exports, with $200.3 billion in annual sales of information and communication technology services. Ireland leads the table at $301.7 billion, and the United States is third at $102.3 billion. The ranking, published by Visual Capitalist on 6 November and created in partnership with Adobe, covers the top 20 countries by tech services exports. It puts India nearly twice as far ahead of the United States as the gap between the United States and China, which is fourth at $73.6 billion. The figures count services sold across borders, rather than physical products such as computers and smartphones.
The top three countries each record more than $100 billion in tech services exports, and that sets them apart from the rest of the table. Ireland’s total is roughly three times the United States figure, while India’s total is nearly twice the American figure. The United Kingdom follows China in fifth place at $65.0 billion. Israel is sixth at $59.8 billion, just ahead of Germany at $59.4 billion. The ranking shows how much of this trade sits with a few countries. Ireland and India alone recorded more than $500 billion between them, which is close to half of the top 20 combined total.
Tech services exports and the top of the table
Ireland’s lead comes from the large number of multinational technology firms that book service sales through the country, and the World Bank data behind the ranking reflects that pattern. India’s second place rests on its software and IT services industry, which sells engineering, support and consulting work to clients in the United States and Europe. The United States, for all the size of its domestic technology industry, exports less in ICT services than either Ireland or India. China, in fourth place, recorded $73.6 billion, and the United Kingdom, in fifth, recorded $65.0 billion. The gap between third and fourth place in tech services exports is wide, at close to $29 billion, and the figures fall away quickly after the top five. That shape is the main point: a handful of countries take most of the trade, and the rest share what is left.
Tech services exports across Europe and Asia
Europe accounts for 12 of the top 20 positions in the ranking. Germany is seventh at $59.4 billion, and the Netherlands and France share ninth and tenth place at $29.3 billion each. Sweden is 11th at $27.2 billion, Spain 12th at $26.6 billion, Switzerland 13th at $25.1 billion, Belgium 15th at $23.8 billion, Poland 16th at $22.1 billion and Finland 19th at $14.3 billion. Austria closes the table in 20th place at $13.6 billion. Singapore, in eighth place at $33.6 billion, is the highest ranked country in Southeast Asia for tech services exports. Canada is 14th at $24.8 billion, South Korea 17th at $18.7 billion and Japan 18th at $14.7 billion. The data for Ireland and the Netherlands are from 2024; the other figures use the most recent year available from the World Bank. The spread shows that tech services exports are a European strength as well as an Indian one, with the continent’s total spread across many mid-sized exporters rather than one dominant seller.
India’s own figures for tech services exports point the same way. The Reserve Bank of India reported that the country’s exports of software services rose 8.2 percent in 2025-26 to $221.4 billion. Computer services made up more than two-thirds of that total, and business process outsourcing was the largest part of IT-enabled services. The United States remained the largest destination, with a 54.1 percent share worth $119.7 billion, followed by Europe at 31.8 percent. The Reserve Bank contacted 7,569 software export companies for its annual survey and received replies from 2,363 of them, including most of the large firms. The survey also found that 91.7 percent of software services were delivered from India rather than at client sites abroad.
What the ranking means for India
The ranking gives India a clear position in tech services exports worth hundreds of billions of dollars a year, and the Reserve Bank survey shows the same trade still growing. The country’s $200.3 billion in the World Bank table is close to the Reserve Bank’s $221.4 billion figure for software services, and the difference comes from how each source defines the services it counts. Both point to the same fact: India sells more in tech services exports than any country except Ireland. The United States buys most of it, Europe buys much of the rest, and the work is done largely from offices in India. The ranking was published on 6 November, and its table runs to 20 countries, from Ireland at $301.7 billion down to Austria at $13.6 billion.