Evaluating the performance of countries in international markets and measuring how they use allocated resources provides a clear picture of the state of trade management in countries. If there is information about the performance of export markets, you can make clear business rules, allocate quotas and loans by international organizations such as the World Bank and its subsidiaries, financial and non-financial support, allocate credit and establish financial and non-financial transactions with a clear vision. The main purpose of this paper is to better understand and accurately assess the current state of research in the field of evaluating the performance of countries' export markets and identifying the indicators and variables used in this regard. In this research, the systematic literature review (SLR) method has been used to collect and review previous studies. By integrating automatic and manual search strategies, all related research articles published in this field in the period from 2009 to 2019 in Persian and 2008 up to 2018 in English are covered. The results show that countries' performance evaluations are mainly based on economic indicators and focus on gross domestic product standards that focus more on the economic dimensions of performance. Because these criteria are not able to explain the non-economic dimensions of functional performance of countries, researchers have evaluated non-economic criteria such as level of education, human capital, environmental indicators, and so on. Finally, it is suggested that economic and non-economic criteria be evaluated simultaneously to evaluate the performance of countries’ export markets.

Keywords: Evaluating the Performance of Countries, Performance in Export Markets, Economic Indicators, Non-Economic Indicators

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