Switzerland - Transport services imports

Transport services (% of commercial service imports)

The value for Transport services (% of commercial service imports) in Switzerland was 9.36 as of 2020. As the graph below shows, over the past 43 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 35.44 in 1996 and a minimum value of 8.66 in 2016.

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
1977 28.34
1978 29.12
1979 28.51
1980 30.37
1981 29.37
1982 28.32
1983 27.31
1984 26.98
1985 26.93
1986 25.09
1987 24.28
1988 20.63
1989 33.09
1990 33.65
1991 33.90
1992 33.02
1993 33.27
1994 34.20
1995 35.22
1996 35.44
1997 35.01
1998 34.91
1999 35.01
2000 24.24
2001 22.20
2002 17.50
2003 15.11
2004 14.12
2005 13.16
2006 13.78
2007 14.02
2008 14.94
2009 13.21
2010 13.31
2011 12.38
2012 12.80
2013 12.84
2014 11.91
2015 9.26
2016 8.66
2017 9.05
2018 10.29
2019 10.06
2020 9.36

Classification

Topic: Private Sector & Trade Indicators

Sub-Topic: Imports