United States - Fuel imports (% of merchandise imports)

The value for Fuel imports (% of merchandise imports) in United States was 7.63 as of 2021. As the graph below shows, over the past 59 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 32.84 in 1980 and a minimum value of 5.40 in 2020.

Definition: Fuels comprise the commodities in SITC section 3 (mineral fuels, lubricants and related materials).

Source: World Bank staff estimates through the WITS platform from the Comtrade database maintained by the United Nations Statistics Division.

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Year Value
1962 11.25
1963 11.07
1964 10.73
1965 10.40
1966 8.85
1967 8.39
1968 7.64
1969 7.75
1970 7.70
1971 8.15
1972 8.64
1973 11.76
1974 25.13
1975 27.25
1976 27.86
1977 29.89
1978 24.53
1979 29.29
1980 32.84
1981 31.07
1982 26.65
1983 22.39
1984 18.65
1985 15.52
1986 10.43
1987 11.07
1989 11.38
1990 13.28
1991 11.45
1992 10.60
1993 9.82
1994 8.72
1995 8.17
1996 9.43
1997 9.19
1998 6.58
1999 7.48
2000 11.11
2001 10.69
2002 10.05
2003 12.36
2004 14.24
2005 17.37
2006 17.98
2007 18.45
2008 23.18
2009 17.42
2010 18.50
2011 20.44
2012 18.64
2013 16.76
2014 14.85
2015 8.66
2016 7.26
2017 8.48
2018 9.25
2019 8.18
2020 5.40
2021 7.63

Limitations and Exceptions: Previous editions contained data based on the SITC revision 1. Data for earlier years in previous editions may differ because of the change in methodology. Concordance tables are available to convert data reported in one system to another.

Statistical Concept and Methodology: The classification of commodity groups is based on the Standard International Trade Classification (SITC) revision 3.

Aggregation method: Weighted average

Periodicity: Annual

General Comments: Merchandise import shares may not sum to 100 percent because of unclassified trade.

Classification

Topic: Private Sector & Trade Indicators

Sub-Topic: Imports