High income - Manufactures imports (% of merchandise imports)

The value for Manufactures imports (% of merchandise imports) in High income was 67.91 as of 2021. As the graph below shows, over the past 59 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 77.24 in 1999 and a minimum value of 46.03 in 1963.

Definition: Manufactures comprise the commodities in SITC sections 5 (chemicals), 6 (basic manufactures), 7 (machinery and transport equipment), and 8 (miscellaneous manufactured goods), excluding division 68 (nonferrous 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 47.56
1963 46.03
1964 47.06
1965 48.43
1966 50.55
1967 52.05
1968 54.31
1969 56.45
1970 57.36
1971 59.19
1972 59.42
1973 58.32
1974 52.49
1975 53.07
1976 54.10
1977 55.05
1978 59.18
1979 57.30
1980 54.60
1981 54.91
1982 56.94
1983 58.94
1984 60.22
1985 62.40
1986 68.69
1987 70.13
1989 71.01
1990 70.93
1991 72.14
1992 73.23
1993 73.53
1994 74.49
1995 75.21
1996 74.80
1997 75.06
1998 77.22
1999 77.24
2000 74.46
2001 74.78
2002 75.04
2003 74.18
2004 73.42
2005 71.20
2006 69.46
2007 70.07
2008 66.83
2009 68.56
2010 68.08
2011 65.90
2012 65.10
2013 65.23
2014 67.62
2015 72.06
2016 73.40
2017 72.90
2018 72.07
2019 72.52
2020 73.70
2021 67.91

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