United Kingdom - Manufactures exports (% of merchandise exports)

The value for Manufactures exports (% of merchandise exports) in United Kingdom was 62.73 as of 2021. As the graph below shows, over the past 59 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 84.30 in 1998 and a minimum value of 58.51 in 2013.

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
1962 79.77
1963 79.47
1964 79.86
1965 80.96
1966 80.96
1967 80.84
1968 81.07
1969 82.09
1970 80.09
1971 81.98
1972 81.17
1973 79.63
1974 78.80
1975 80.59
1976 80.42
1977 78.87
1978 78.38
1979 74.96
1980 71.49
1981 66.32
1982 65.14
1983 63.20
1984 63.98
1985 65.29
1986 72.82
1987 74.53
1988 79.61
1989 80.10
1990 79.70
1991 79.87
1992 77.99
1993 78.61
1994 79.72
1995 81.92
1996 82.53
1997 82.50
1998 84.30
1999 83.74
2000 75.21
2001 75.42
2002 77.92
2003 77.32
2004 75.98
2005 75.22
2006 76.95
2007 72.69
2008 67.97
2009 66.14
2010 67.89
2011 62.91
2012 65.82
2013 58.51
2014 68.25
2015 71.65
2016 76.18
2017 74.02
2018 68.99
2019 71.78
2020 68.30
2021 62.73

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