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

The value for Manufactures exports (% of merchandise exports) in Pacific island small states was 15.14 as of 2018. As the graph below shows, over the past 43 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 28.50 in 2003 and a minimum value of 1.50 in 1980.

Definition: Manufactures comprise commodities in SITC sections 5 (chemicals), 6 (basic manufactures), 7 (machinery and transport equipment), and 8 (miscellaneous manufactured goods), excluding division 68 (non-ferrous 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
1975 2.06
1980 1.50
1983 4.32
2002 27.54
2003 28.50
2004 28.15
2005 19.49
2006 17.67
2007 19.30
2008 17.32
2009 17.43
2010 17.46
2011 16.77
2012 15.96
2013 16.91
2014 16.44
2015 15.68
2016 18.38
2017 15.83
2018 15.14

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 export shares may not sum to 100 percent because of unclassified trade.

Classification

Topic: Private Sector & Trade Indicators

Sub-Topic: Exports