Bhutan - Manufactures imports (% of merchandise imports)

The value for Manufactures imports (% of merchandise imports) in Bhutan was 57.20 as of 2012. As the graph below shows, over the past 19 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 69.60 in 1999 and a minimum value of 51.05 in 2007.

Definition: Manufactures comprise the commodities in SITC sections 5 (chemicals), 6 (basic manufactures), 7 (machinery and transport equipment), and 8 (miscellaneous manufactured goods), excluding division 68 (nonferrous 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
1993 65.81
1994 63.85
1998 66.36
1999 69.60
2005 65.65
2006 52.76
2007 51.05
2008 56.17
2009 57.72
2010 60.82
2011 62.66
2012 57.20

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