Barbados - Insurance and financial services imports

Insurance and financial services (% of commercial service imports)

The value for Insurance and financial services (% of commercial service imports) in Barbados was 10.57 as of 2016. As the graph below shows, over the past 49 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 10.82 in 2000 and a minimum value of 1.40 in 1979.

Definition: Insurance and financial services cover freight insurance on goods imported and other direct insurance such as life insurance; financial intermediation services such as commissions, foreign exchange transactions, and brokerage services; and auxiliary services such as financial market operational and regulatory services.

Source: International Monetary Fund, Balance of Payments Statistics Yearbook and data files.

See also:

Year Value
1967 8.09
1968 6.22
1969 5.15
1970 4.62
1971 4.39
1972 4.01
1973 3.94
1974 4.89
1975 4.66
1976 4.60
1977 3.94
1978 3.72
1979 1.40
1980 2.50
1981 2.50
1982 2.55
1983 2.63
1984 3.93
1985 3.76
1986 4.88
1987 5.21
1988 5.17
1989 5.44
1990 8.32
1991 7.03
1992 8.12
1993 8.50
1994 10.66
1995 9.27
1996 8.15
1997 6.90
1998 7.18
1999 7.26
2000 10.82
2001 7.34
2002 7.18
2003 5.91
2004 5.52
2005 6.10
2006 6.50
2007 5.85
2008 4.65
2009 4.09
2010 3.72
2011 5.63
2012 4.95
2013 5.05
2014 3.36
2015 8.35
2016 10.57

Classification

Topic: Private Sector & Trade Indicators

Sub-Topic: Imports