Sierra Leone - Manufactures exports (% of merchandise exports)

The value for Manufactures exports (% of merchandise exports) in Sierra Leone was 25.08 as of 2018. As the graph below shows, over the past 55 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 65.43 in 1964 and a minimum value of 3.32 in 2017.

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
1963 63.54
1964 65.43
1972 63.41
1973 62.33
1974 62.82
1975 54.21
1976 63.34
1983 32.27
1984 30.77
2000 9.86
2002 7.46
2014 9.50
2015 10.47
2016 20.21
2017 3.32
2018 25.08

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