Lower middle income - Transport services exports

Transport services (% of commercial service exports)

The value for Transport services (% of commercial service exports) in Lower middle income was 20.24 as of 2020. As the graph below shows, over the past 39 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 26.28 in 1996 and a minimum value of 16.30 in 2018.

Definition: Transport services (% of commercial service exports) 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
1981 24.27
1982 23.80
1983 23.22
1984 23.60
1985 23.67
1986 20.74
1987 21.26
1988 23.48
1989 20.35
1990 20.09
1991 20.07
1992 17.80
1993 18.65
1994 22.62
1995 23.39
1996 26.28
1997 23.49
1998 20.08
1999 19.52
2000 19.21
2001 17.33
2002 20.00
2003 19.79
2004 19.27
2005 24.47
2006 23.69
2007 22.14
2008 21.47
2009 21.22
2010 21.53
2011 21.64
2012 21.21
2013 20.38
2014 20.28
2015 19.90
2016 19.46
2017 16.94
2018 16.30
2019 17.18
2020 20.24

Classification

Topic: Private Sector & Trade Indicators

Sub-Topic: Exports