Saudi Arabia - Transport services imports

Transport services (% of commercial service imports)

The value for Transport services (% of commercial service imports) in Saudi Arabia was 38.61 as of 2020. As the graph below shows, over the past 49 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 60.84 in 1977 and a minimum value of 14.82 in 1997.

Definition: Transport services (% of commercial service imports) 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
1971 38.53
1972 38.16
1973 36.40
1974 46.19
1975 52.43
1976 59.09
1977 60.84
1978 52.14
1979 24.72
1980 34.96
1981 29.11
1982 32.14
1983 32.76
1984 32.57
1985 21.21
1986 18.46
1987 18.28
1988 23.30
1989 18.70
1990 18.09
1991 19.33
1992 17.94
1993 15.05
1994 20.42
1995 25.26
1996 17.20
1997 14.82
1998 25.75
1999 22.07
2000 20.54
2001 32.39
2002 33.55
2003 34.57
2004 30.07
2005 24.34
2006 19.05
2007 20.71
2008 31.58
2009 24.24
2010 24.95
2011 27.93
2012 35.82
2013 37.20
2014 31.79
2015 36.09
2016 32.66
2017 29.09
2018 28.53
2019 32.01
2020 38.61

Classification

Topic: Private Sector & Trade Indicators

Sub-Topic: Imports