Kuwait - Transport services imports

Transport services (% of commercial service imports)

The value for Transport services (% of commercial service imports) in Kuwait was 19.28 as of 2020. As the graph below shows, over the past 45 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 66.96 in 1977 and a minimum value of 12.73 in 2018.

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
1975 60.53
1976 61.54
1977 66.96
1978 62.22
1979 49.42
1980 45.22
1981 45.53
1982 46.25
1983 45.14
1984 40.25
1985 36.61
1986 34.72
1987 31.02
1988 32.61
1989 33.27
1990 31.89
1991 31.24
1992 41.98
1993 43.57
1994 39.09
1995 39.43
1996 38.90
1997 38.78
1998 38.34
1999 38.76
2000 37.33
2001 34.83
2002 35.80
2003 36.61
2004 35.57
2005 35.54
2006 33.58
2007 33.88
2008 37.59
2009 35.19
2010 28.07
2011 34.62
2012 32.17
2013 26.04
2014 24.84
2015 23.32
2016 20.15
2017 19.97
2018 12.73
2019 14.28
2020 19.28

Classification

Topic: Private Sector & Trade Indicators

Sub-Topic: Imports