IDA total - Manufactures imports (% of merchandise imports)

The value for Manufactures imports (% of merchandise imports) in IDA total was 63.67 as of 2019. As the graph below shows, over the past 42 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 68.26 in 1977 and a minimum value of 58.41 in 2011.

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
1977 68.26
1978 66.23
1997 65.32
1998 65.01
2000 61.81
2001 62.36
2002 63.22
2003 62.45
2004 63.90
2005 63.29
2006 62.45
2007 63.20
2008 61.79
2009 64.15
2010 63.00
2011 58.41
2012 59.95
2013 59.65
2014 60.14
2015 63.33
2016 64.31
2017 62.57
2018 61.71
2019 63.67

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