Eswatini - Manufactures imports (% of merchandise imports)

The value for Manufactures imports (% of merchandise imports) in Eswatini was 61.46 as of 2020. As the graph below shows, over the past 20 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 71.88 in 2004 and a minimum value of 54.28 in 2012.

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
2000 64.19
2001 66.01
2002 66.91
2003 70.72
2004 71.88
2005 68.30
2006 65.53
2007 62.27
2008 60.72
2009 60.02
2010 59.23
2011 66.88
2012 54.28
2013 56.41
2014 62.33
2015 65.87
2016 66.07
2017 65.98
2018 62.77
2019 61.85
2020 61.46

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