Heavily indebted poor countries (HIPC) - Manufactures exports (% of merchandise exports)

The value for Manufactures exports (% of merchandise exports) in Heavily indebted poor countries (HIPC) was 13.98 as of 2019. As the graph below shows, over the past 54 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 22.34 in 2015 and a minimum value of 6.83 in 1976.

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
1965 8.95
1966 7.46
1967 7.56
1968 8.93
1970 8.15
1971 8.36
1972 8.87
1973 9.04
1974 7.24
1975 8.05
1976 6.83
1977 6.98
1978 7.56
1979 7.46
1995 10.20
1996 14.49
1997 15.24
1998 16.58
1999 19.76
2000 14.70
2001 15.61
2002 16.71
2003 14.86
2004 15.68
2005 16.14
2006 15.32
2007 14.75
2008 15.64
2009 16.30
2010 14.44
2011 13.40
2012 15.91
2013 17.89
2014 20.40
2015 22.34
2016 22.12
2017 19.51
2018 19.09
2019 13.98

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