South Asia - Manufactures imports

Manufactures imports (% of merchandise imports)

The value for Manufactures imports (% of merchandise imports) in South Asia was 48.25 as of 2021. As the graph below shows, over the past 59 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 65.21 in 1986 and a minimum value of 40.39 in 1976.

Definition: Manufactures comprise the commodities in SITC sections 5 (chemicals), 6 (basic manufactures), 7 (machinery and transport equipment), and 8 (miscellaneous manufactured goods), excluding division 68 (nonferrous 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
1962 58.69
1963 59.67
1964 60.42
1965 58.00
1966 48.70
1967 48.81
1968 54.84
1969 52.67
1970 50.98
1971 57.16
1972 59.64
1973 54.30
1974 44.65
1975 54.64
1976 40.39
1977 45.39
1978 49.33
1979 49.35
1980 42.58
1981 42.87
1983 50.49
1984 49.67
1985 53.99
1986 65.21
1987 54.49
1988 56.85
1989 58.74
1990 52.33
1991 52.84
1992 52.29
1993 55.61
1994 51.39
1995 54.60
1996 51.21
1997 51.64
1998 49.90
1999 47.90
2000 46.12
2001 47.43
2002 49.92
2003 51.40
2004 50.74
2005 51.09
2006 49.17
2007 48.33
2008 46.39
2009 49.40
2010 47.39
2011 44.15
2012 41.82
2013 42.18
2014 41.89
2015 50.44
2016 53.31
2017 51.35
2018 49.11
2019 51.00
2020 53.29
2021 48.25

Classification

Topic: Private Sector & Trade Indicators

Sub-Topic: Imports