South Africa - Commercial service imports

Commercial service imports (current US$)

The value for Commercial service imports (current US$) in South Africa was 11,047,210,000 as of 2020. As the graph below shows, over the past 60 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 20,164,200,000 in 2011 and a minimum value of 236,599,900 in 1961.

Definition: Commercial service imports are total service imports minus imports of government services not included elsewhere. International transactions in services are defined by the IMF's Balance of Payments Manual (1993) as the economic output of intangible commodities that may be produced, transferred, and consumed at the same time. Definitions may vary among reporting economies.

Source: International Monetary Fund, Balance of Payments Statistics Yearbook and data files.

See also:

Year Value
1960 244,999,900
1961 236,599,900
1962 261,799,900
1963 333,199,900
1964 375,199,800
1965 446,599,800
1966 468,999,800
1967 527,799,800
1968 561,399,700
1969 648,199,700
1970 800,799,700
1971 929,700,000
1972 884,007,600
1973 1,148,129,000
1974 1,478,068,000
1975 1,807,672,000
1976 1,499,600,000
1977 1,769,850,000
1978 2,086,100,000
1979 2,424,771,000
1980 3,320,659,000
1981 3,901,308,000
1982 3,387,097,000
1983 3,170,299,000
1984 2,891,157,000
1985 2,217,054,000
1986 2,651,578,000
1987 3,089,492,000
1988 3,187,936,000
1989 3,288,137,000
1990 3,679,119,000
1991 3,668,388,000
1992 4,216,072,000
1993 4,537,375,000
1994 4,897,592,000
1995 5,767,578,000
1996 5,519,729,000
1997 5,819,206,000
1998 5,476,301,000
1999 5,595,037,000
2000 5,684,339,000
2001 5,118,646,000
2002 5,375,504,000
2003 7,845,299,000
2004 10,062,620,000
2005 11,859,020,000
2006 13,664,850,000
2007 15,697,820,000
2008 16,347,610,000
2009 14,711,570,000
2010 18,972,880,000
2011 20,164,200,000
2012 18,231,150,000
2013 17,519,980,000
2014 16,725,990,000
2015 15,301,620,000
2016 14,893,420,000
2017 16,198,770,000
2018 16,602,990,000
2019 16,112,520,000
2020 11,047,210,000

Classification

Topic: Private Sector & Trade Indicators

Sub-Topic: Imports