Key macroeconomic indicators, updated from official sources (INETL, BCTL, Ministry of Finance).
Real year-on-year growth, percent. 2025 and 2026 are estimates.
Sector contribution to GDP, percent.
Imports by origin, percent.
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Map: Mapbox · Routing: MGAD-TL. Municipal boundaries simplified for display. Population data based on the 2022 Census; the municipal economic layer is illustrative — to be replaced with official data from INETL, BCTL and the Ministry of Finance.
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MCAE's main areas of coordination.
The 11th member of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations. MCAE coordinates national participation in the economic pillar (AEC) and integration into the regional market.
Timor-Leste signed the Declaration on its Admission into ASEAN at the opening ceremony of the 47th ASEAN Summit and deposited its Instruments of Accession to the ASEAN Charter and to the Southeast Asia Nuclear Weapon-Free Zone Treaty (SEANWFZ). It is ASEAN's first enlargement since Cambodia joined in 1999.
Full membership opens access to a market of more than 680 million people, to ASEAN free trade agreements (ATIGA, RCEP), cooperation funds and capacity-building programmes. At the same time, the Government must implement the legal and economic obligations set out in the ASEAN Roadmap.
See also: ASEAN Economic Community
Key stages of Timor-Leste's ASEAN accession process.
The WTO's 166th member. MCAE leads the accession negotiations, the implementation of commitments and coordination with line ministries.
The Accession Protocol was signed on 26 February 2024 at the 13th Ministerial Conference (MC13) in Abu Dhabi by the Deputy Prime Minister and Coordinating Minister for Economic Affairs, Francisco Kalbuadi Lay, and WTO Director-General Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala. Negotiations took seven and a half years — one of the fastest accessions in WTO history.
WTO membership guarantees market access, predictable trade rules and dispute settlement mechanisms, and is a strategic step towards ASEAN membership.
See also: GPA press release
Key stages of Timor-Leste's WTO accession process.
Scheduled meetings, forums and official events.
Laws, decree-laws, resolutions and ministerial diplomas.
Public institutions under the oversight of MCAE.