Burkina Faso - Fuel imports (% of merchandise imports)

The value for Fuel imports (% of merchandise imports) in Burkina Faso was 26.62 as of 2020. As the graph below shows, over the past 58 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 31.28 in 2014 and a minimum value of 3.43 in 1962.

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.

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Year Value
1962 3.43
1963 3.50
1964 3.54
1965 4.26
1966 5.88
1967 6.53
1968 6.74
1969 6.62
1970 8.20
1971 8.84
1972 8.56
1973 7.07
1974 6.48
1975 8.84
1976 7.85
1977 8.49
1978 8.51
1979 11.33
1980 13.21
1981 15.55
1982 16.47
1983 17.12
1995 13.99
1996 13.89
1997 18.04
1998 15.78
1999 16.05
2000 25.25
2001 25.11
2002 16.91
2003 16.88
2004 16.16
2005 19.94
2007 21.96
2008 23.86
2009 23.56
2010 21.98
2011 23.62
2012 25.84
2013 26.03
2014 31.28
2015 25.76
2016 19.93
2017 24.92
2018 27.20
2019 28.26
2020 26.62

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