myanmar old Burma what a sad 77 years

update april 23 I guess myanmar seemed the sleepiest of the asean countries to its membership unti recently- now its a test- wha't's the purpose of asean if it can't even get myanmar (one o0f its smalest economies0 to value the asean way - this at a time when china and usa are wooing the whole region - asean can affrd false steps as china is far its largest trading partner 

According to the ASEAN Secretariat, the total merchandise trade between ASEAN and the seven countries I listed amounted to approximately USD 1.8 trillion in 2020. Here's a breakdown of the trade percentages between ASEAN and each of these countries for that year:

1. China: 17.1%
2. Japan: 10.7%
3. South Korea: 7.5%
4. United States: 7.1%
5. European Union: 7.0%
6. Australia: 3.3%
7. India: 2.8%

and of course asean is many things the first 2 countries in asia i visited  in 1982 (start of 60 asian work epxpereibces) were indoensia tahnks to unilevever and singapire - i love them bot a slow rising giant and teh fastest development of any 6 million people - I also love hong kong and sort of wish it had been eligible to be in asean - nb in what follows brunei is an outlier rich for its people while cartbon rules the world Brunei is a small country with a population of around 460,000 and a land area of only around 5,700 square kilometers. However, it is one of the richest countries in the world on a per capita basis due to its significant oil and gas resources.

approximate percentages of the total Gross Domestic Product (GDP) of ASEAN contributed by each member state in my previous answer. Here it is again for your reference:

1. Indonesia: 38.3% Mineral fuels, (eg palm) oils, distillation products, machinery
2. Thailand: 19.5% Electrical machinery and equipment, machinery and mechanical appliances, rubber
3. Malaysia: 14.8% Electrical machinery and equipment, mineral fuels, oils, distillation products (?rubber)
4. Singapore: 7.7% Integrated circuits, refined petroleum
5. Philippines: 7.4% Electrical machinery and equipment, machinery and mechanical appliances, mineral fuels, oils, distillation products
6. Vietnam: 7.0% Electrical machinery and equipment, footwear, textiles
7. Myanmar: 2.0% Gas, wood products
8. Cambodia: 1.3% Knit or crochet clothing, footwear
9. Brunei: 0.3% petroleum
10. Laos: 0.2% Copper, electricity

These figures do not include tourism of which thailand leads in mass tourism whereas eg simagpore would elad business conferences etc- indonesia also has special tirist/business zone ie bali; also note impact of remittances The Philippines is known for having a large number of overseas Filipino workers (OFWs), and remittances from these workers are a significant contributor to the country's foreign currency reserves. In 2020, remittances from OFWs amounted to approximately USD 29.9 billion, which represented around 9.3% of the country's GDP and around 9.2% of its foreign exchange earnings.

The importance of remittances to the Philippines' economy cannot be overstated. Remittances support millions of families in the country, contribute to consumer spending, and help boost the overall economy.

nb brunei is an outlier ----

what's the top 2 exports by asean country

Here are the top two exports by ASEAN countries based on the latest available data:

1. Brunei: Crude petroleum, petroleum gas
2. Cambodia: Knit or crochet clothing, footwear
3. Indonesia: Mineral fuels, oils, distillation products, machinery and mechanical appliances
4. Laos: Copper, electricity
5. Malaysia: Electrical machinery and equipment, mineral fuels, oils, distillation products
6. Myanmar: Gas, wood products
7. Philippines: Electrical machinery and equipment, machinery and mechanical appliances, mineral fuels, oils, distillation products
8. Singapore: Integrated circuits, refined petroleum
9. Thailand: Electrical machinery and equipment, machinery and mechanical appliances, rubber
10. Vietnam: Electrical machinery and equipment, footwear, textiles

It's important to note that these rankings are subject to change over time and based on various factors such as economic conditions and global demand for certain products.

whats the ups and downs of the other asean countries 

my dad (The Economist's Norman Macrae) served as teen navigator in allied bomber command stationed in burma as myanmar was then called; from the air 50 years ahead of other journalists and policy makers his mind was imprinted with google maps of the great bay of bengal to the west asean down to singapote to south east- continental china over which his then enemy japan might engage to north east; why is it in 2021 the country once beloved or orwell and kipling could make life so miserable for peoples; (in air force out of myanmar you got 6 dangerous hours in air followed by 24 hours down time where my father had 3 books to read 2 by adam smith and one by keynes -it was this ideology of celebaring human employement he used to turn the economist into a thrird ranked weekly into a one of a kind global)

dad married the daughter of sir kenneth kemps; 4 generations of kemps had been scottish pharmacists in bombay until sir keen studied law, became chief justiced; dialogued with Gandhi for 20 yeras before writing up legalese of india's independence; I am not saying this to boast- simply dad knew asia as much as he knew europe form being home schooled for most of his youth in places like british embassy in stalin's moscow -stalin and hitler were the 2 mademn humans needed to outlast; the first 180 yeras of applying smith and watts machines out of glasgow had gone disatrously wrong as it represented the intersts of 7 white empires (less than 15% of huamns and within that extremely few really powerful white men) we have had our second last best chnace mediating united natuons from 1945 now in 2021 we find ousrelves at last best chnace 

one of the problems all over asia is how the british exited - absolutley every country needed independence but teh systems needed chnaging not just a top down handover to miltarries or bureaucratics 

you can see my father's survey in the economist of which asian countries rise/fall from 1962- as keenedy agreed in 1962 there were 2 asia rising models 1005 village employmemt/microentreprenurship and hi-tech suprcities designing win-win sme supply chains which japan's keiretsu and korea's chaebol facilitated along with taiwan gutsy traders- there's never been a greater trading mindest than the chinese (fiaspora) frred from eg britain's insistence of opium as a currency or freed from staliesque communism; by 1972 the diaspora chinese were the 3ed most sustaible bankers to global trade after isa and japan- as permy fathere 1977 economist survey- imagine heaven r hell which now depends on one fifth of all humans - chinese mainland race to educate their one child generation and end poverty; the greatest economic miracle studies what china did between 1972 and 2010- part 2 of that miracle need us-china to lead sdgoalsgeneration -dont you think?