Dominican Republic - Manufactures exports (% of merchandise exports)

The value for Manufactures exports (% of merchandise exports) in Dominican Republic was 57.00 as of 2020. As the graph below shows, over the past 49 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 84.10 in 2006 and a minimum value of 3.99 in 1971.

Definition: Manufactures comprise commodities in SITC sections 5 (chemicals), 6 (basic manufactures), 7 (machinery and transport equipment), and 8 (miscellaneous manufactured goods), excluding division 68 (non-ferrous metals).

Source: World Bank staff estimates through the WITS platform from the Comtrade database maintained by the United Nations Statistics Division.

See also:

Year Value
1971 3.99
1972 17.00
1973 22.03
1974 17.07
1975 15.35
1976 22.76
1977 17.55
1978 21.08
1979 25.86
1980 23.59
1981 18.75
1982 16.32
1983 23.87
1985 40.61
1986 41.56
1987 51.49
1996 7.79
1997 7.94
2001 34.16
2002 82.25
2003 82.38
2004 81.88
2005 80.07
2006 84.10
2007 77.71
2008 71.33
2009 72.36
2010 67.69
2011 66.77
2012 63.39
2013 55.78
2014 52.19
2015 57.84
2016 55.42
2017 57.01
2018 58.40
2019 57.87
2020 57.00

Limitations and Exceptions: Previous editions contained data based on the SITC revision 1. Data for earlier years in previous editions may differ because of the change in methodology. Concordance tables are available to convert data reported in one system to another.

Statistical Concept and Methodology: The classification of commodity groups is based on the Standard International Trade Classification (SITC) revision 3.

Aggregation method: Weighted average

Periodicity: Annual

General Comments: Merchandise export shares may not sum to 100 percent because of unclassified trade.

Classification

Topic: Private Sector & Trade Indicators

Sub-Topic: Exports