South Africa - Manufactures exports

Manufactures exports (% of merchandise exports)

The value for Manufactures exports (% of merchandise exports) in South Africa was 38.39 as of 2020. As the graph below shows, over the past 46 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 61.30 in 2002 and a minimum value of 17.55 in 1981.

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
1974 29.80
1975 26.73
1976 32.99
1977 38.66
1978 36.78
1979 37.87
1980 18.20
1981 17.55
1982 19.05
1983 18.06
1984 19.41
1992 28.45
1993 38.64
1994 38.86
1995 42.84
1996 54.27
1997 57.31
1998 53.08
1999 54.77
2000 53.25
2001 52.82
2002 61.30
2003 57.08
2004 56.49
2005 55.49
2006 51.98
2007 50.71
2008 51.51
2009 46.81
2010 48.70
2011 41.12
2012 43.49
2013 42.38
2014 45.79
2015 47.65
2016 47.71
2017 44.03
2018 43.46
2019 42.97
2020 38.39

Classification

Topic: Private Sector & Trade Indicators

Sub-Topic: Exports