São Tomé and Principe - Transport services exports

Transport services (% of commercial service exports)

The value for Transport services (% of commercial service exports) in São Tomé and Principe was 3.87 as of 2020. As the graph below shows, over the past 46 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 69.59 in 1978 and a minimum value of 0.05 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
1974 7.31
1975 2.49
1976 29.13
1977 9.79
1978 69.59
1979 59.38
1980 45.58
1981 32.20
1982 29.30
1983 43.26
1984 25.31
1985 32.43
1986 60.60
1987 23.47
1988 26.72
1989 33.59
1990 15.50
1997 3.65
1998 3.08
1999 2.13
2000 2.21
2001 1.61
2002 1.61
2003 1.61
2004 1.61
2005 1.61
2006 1.61
2007 2.05
2008 1.61
2009 1.61
2010 1.34
2011 1.06
2012 1.29
2013 0.92
2014 0.24
2015 0.47
2016 0.35
2017 1.05
2018 0.05
2019 0.08
2020 3.87

Classification

Topic: Private Sector & Trade Indicators

Sub-Topic: Exports