IDA only - Transport services imports

Transport services (% of commercial service imports)

The value for Transport services (% of commercial service imports) in IDA only was 55.02 as of 2020. As the graph below shows, over the past 42 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 62.86 in 1981 and a minimum value of 49.40 in 1995.

Definition: Transport services (% of commercial service imports) covers all transport services (sea, air, land, internal waterway, space, and pipeline) performed by residents of one economy for those of another and involving the carriage of passengers, movement of goods (freight), rental of carriers with crew, and related support and auxiliary services. Excluded are freight insurance, which is included in insurance services; goods procured in ports by nonresident carriers and repairs of transport equipment, which are included in goods; repairs of railway facilities, harbors, and airfield facilities, which are included in construction services; and rental of carriers without crew, which is included in other services.

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

See also:

Year Value
1978 62.20
1979 62.20
1980 61.53
1981 62.86
1982 62.51
1983 60.96
1984 61.63
1985 56.99
1986 57.34
1987 55.56
1988 55.05
1989 57.58
1990 58.40
1991 53.90
1992 54.19
1993 51.69
1994 51.55
1995 49.40
1996 52.75
1997 54.53
1998 55.55
1999 58.21
2000 58.46
2001 59.54
2002 59.96
2003 58.01
2004 56.95
2005 54.18
2006 51.28
2007 53.35
2008 59.76
2009 56.86
2010 56.48
2011 57.46
2012 56.10
2013 54.65
2014 54.15
2015 55.46
2016 52.02
2017 52.58
2018 50.03
2019 50.43
2020 55.02

Classification

Topic: Private Sector & Trade Indicators

Sub-Topic: Imports