Australia - Fuel imports (% of merchandise imports)

The value for Fuel imports (% of merchandise imports) in Australia was 10.27 as of 2021. As the graph below shows, over the past 58 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 17.42 in 2013 and a minimum value of 4.04 in 1988.

Definition: Fuels comprise the commodities in SITC section 3 (mineral fuels, lubricants and related materials).

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 10.85
1964 9.35
1965 8.45
1966 8.54
1967 7.82
1968 7.15
1969 7.38
1970 5.47
1971 4.76
1972 4.69
1973 4.10
1974 8.41
1975 9.77
1976 9.56
1977 10.08
1978 9.09
1979 10.65
1980 13.83
1981 13.59
1982 14.43
1983 10.83
1984 9.01
1985 6.76
1986 4.62
1987 4.87
1988 4.04
1989 5.13
1990 5.66
1991 5.96
1992 5.86
1993 6.13
1994 4.79
1995 5.02
1996 6.25
1997 6.02
1998 4.47
1999 5.85
2000 8.28
2001 8.72
2002 7.37
2003 7.90
2004 9.28
2005 11.15
2006 13.24
2007 12.95
2008 15.62
2009 12.65
2010 13.56
2011 16.92
2012 16.87
2013 17.42
2014 15.83
2015 10.84
2016 9.29
2017 10.38
2018 13.31
2019 12.59
2020 8.13
2021 10.27

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 import shares may not sum to 100 percent because of unclassified trade.

Classification

Topic: Private Sector & Trade Indicators

Sub-Topic: Imports