St. Kitts and Nevis - Manufactures exports (% of merchandise exports)

The value for Manufactures exports (% of merchandise exports) in St. Kitts and Nevis was 86.37 as of 2017. As the graph below shows, over the past 36 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 95.47 in 2005 and a minimum value of 25.04 in 1982.

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
1981 28.07
1982 25.04
1983 28.32
1986 45.48
1987 56.81
1993 38.83
1994 31.39
1995 41.44
1996 28.46
1997 34.00
1999 70.50
2000 73.00
2001 73.10
2002 69.74
2003 76.72
2004 68.98
2005 95.47
2006 92.22
2007 89.77
2008 88.55
2009 89.24
2010 87.23
2011 87.26
2012 87.81
2013 87.99
2014 85.81
2015 81.99
2016 85.58
2017 86.37

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