Pacific island small states - Manufactures imports (% of merchandise imports)

The value for Manufactures imports (% of merchandise imports) in Pacific island small states was 58.35 as of 2018. As the graph below shows, over the past 48 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 62.48 in 1971 and a minimum value of 44.21 in 2008.

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
1970 60.99
1971 62.48
1972 61.76
1973 60.88
1974 56.57
1975 58.73
1976 57.47
1977 55.16
1978 56.38
1979 59.17
1980 56.39
1981 54.56
1982 52.14
1983 54.80
1984 54.06
1985 54.72
1986 59.50
1987 58.32
2002 54.73
2003 54.33
2004 55.25
2005 51.03
2006 50.01
2007 45.78
2008 44.21
2009 48.73
2010 48.70
2011 47.86
2012 46.09
2013 52.86
2014 53.20
2015 53.46
2016 61.28
2017 59.07
2018 58.35

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