Heavily indebted poor countries (HIPC) - Commercial service imports

Commercial service imports (current US$)

The value for Commercial service imports (current US$) in Heavily indebted poor countries (HIPC) was 55,985,500,000 as of 2020. As the graph below shows, over the past 42 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 61,474,590,000 in 2019 and a minimum value of 5,145,265,000 in 1978.

Definition: Commercial service imports are total service imports minus imports of government services not included elsewhere. International transactions in services are defined by the IMF's Balance of Payments Manual (1993) as the economic output of intangible commodities that may be produced, transferred, and consumed at the same time. Definitions may vary among reporting economies.

Source: International Monetary Fund, Balance of Payments Statistics Yearbook and data files.

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Year Value
1978 5,145,265,000
1979 5,817,624,000
1980 7,365,071,000
1981 7,417,867,000
1982 6,710,011,000
1983 6,491,631,000
1984 6,085,745,000
1985 6,939,319,000
1986 7,184,650,000
1987 7,722,545,000
1988 7,891,532,000
1989 8,133,265,000
1990 8,814,972,000
1991 9,110,625,000
1992 9,128,731,000
1993 9,001,185,000
1994 8,897,808,000
1995 10,123,980,000
1996 11,709,540,000
1997 11,070,330,000
1998 11,969,190,000
1999 11,531,170,000
2000 12,332,860,000
2001 13,023,910,000
2002 13,985,150,000
2003 14,693,960,000
2004 17,625,530,000
2005 20,847,980,000
2006 24,819,580,000
2007 30,123,010,000
2008 35,434,050,000
2009 33,579,920,000
2010 38,166,720,000
2011 46,186,890,000
2012 48,968,180,000
2013 52,376,540,000
2014 54,896,020,000
2015 52,700,910,000
2016 50,882,380,000
2017 54,406,410,000
2018 61,243,950,000
2019 61,474,590,000
2020 55,985,500,000

Classification

Topic: Private Sector & Trade Indicators

Sub-Topic: Imports