World - Manufactures exports (% of merchandise exports)

The value for Manufactures exports (% of merchandise exports) in World was 70.08 as of 2020. As the graph below shows, over the past 57 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 75.67 in 1998 and a minimum value of 55.29 in 1964.

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
1963 55.58
1964 55.29
1965 56.27
1966 57.53
1967 57.80
1968 57.98
1969 59.28
1970 60.02
1971 62.64
1972 61.58
1973 60.90
1974 59.18
1975 59.84
1976 61.13
1977 61.75
1978 61.05
1979 60.19
1980 61.13
1981 61.28
1982 61.81
1983 62.29
1984 61.24
1985 58.63
1986 62.83
1987 68.14
1991 70.26
1992 72.53
1993 73.21
1994 74.96
1995 75.12
1996 73.90
1997 75.26
1998 75.67
1999 74.88
2000 72.90
2001 73.07
2002 73.36
2003 72.82
2004 72.01
2005 71.24
2006 70.08
2007 70.45
2008 68.26
2009 67.60
2010 66.67
2011 65.04
2012 65.01
2013 64.44
2014 65.83
2015 67.68
2016 67.67
2017 69.44
2018 69.11
2019 69.65
2020 70.08

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 export shares may not sum to 100 percent because of unclassified trade.

Classification

Topic: Private Sector & Trade Indicators

Sub-Topic: Exports