OECD members - Manufactures imports (% of merchandise imports)

The value for Manufactures imports (% of merchandise imports) in OECD members was 66.86 as of 2021. As the graph below shows, over the past 59 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 77.08 in 1999 and a minimum value of 47.70 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 49.56
1963 47.70
1964 48.78
1965 49.97
1966 52.23
1967 53.72
1968 55.87
1969 57.56
1970 58.13
1971 60.04
1972 60.26
1973 58.76
1974 52.15
1975 53.01
1976 54.22
1977 54.85
1978 58.18
1979 56.07
1980 52.88
1981 53.46
1982 55.55
1983 57.25
1984 59.23
1985 61.61
1986 68.29
1987 69.37
1989 70.55
1990 70.36
1991 71.60
1992 72.15
1993 72.35
1994 73.42
1995 74.42
1996 74.23
1997 74.59
1998 76.78
1999 77.08
2000 73.61
2001 74.13
2002 74.77
2003 73.95
2004 73.10
2005 71.26
2006 69.47
2007 69.13
2008 65.93
2009 68.25
2010 67.74
2011 65.62
2012 64.59
2013 65.74
2014 67.88
2015 72.38
2016 73.66
2017 72.46
2018 71.41
2019 71.99
2020 73.28
2021 66.86

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