Dominican Republic - Manufactures imports (% of merchandise imports)

The value for Manufactures imports (% of merchandise imports) in Dominican Republic was 72.08 as of 2020. As the graph below shows, over the past 48 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 81.28 in 2005 and a minimum value of 43.24 in 1984.

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
1972 72.83
1973 64.15
1974 60.90
1975 60.01
1976 71.83
1977 58.08
1978 56.89
1979 52.39
1980 54.05
1981 46.72
1982 47.27
1983 46.07
1984 43.24
1985 49.92
2001 62.35
2002 79.29
2003 76.67
2004 78.65
2005 81.28
2006 79.47
2007 79.67
2008 79.37
2009 62.22
2010 59.61
2011 57.42
2012 58.04
2013 55.73
2014 59.80
2015 66.40
2016 68.98
2017 65.60
2018 64.18
2019 64.61
2020 72.08

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

Classification

Topic: Private Sector & Trade Indicators

Sub-Topic: Imports