Benin - 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 Benin was 1.51 as of 2020. As the graph below shows, over the past 46 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 14.68 in 1982 and a minimum value of 1.51 in 2020.

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
1974 11.79
1975 11.17
1976 13.36
1977 13.76
1978 13.31
1979 11.85
1980 11.32
1981 14.03
1982 14.68
1983 12.22
1984 12.29
1985 5.63
1986 6.60
1987 6.49
1988 6.85
1989 6.90
1990 5.67
1991 3.36
1992 5.41
1993 6.98
1994 7.49
1995 10.39
1996 9.77
1997 12.19
1998 9.73
1999 9.27
2000 9.18
2001 10.20
2002 11.18
2003 13.42
2004 11.19
2005 11.15
2006 9.79
2007 9.81
2008 4.84
2009 4.84
2010 4.84
2011 4.81
2012 7.51
2013 2.98
2014 2.40
2015 2.58
2016 1.93
2017 1.82
2018 1.87
2019 1.78
2020 1.51

Classification

Topic: Private Sector & Trade Indicators

Sub-Topic: Imports