Ireland - Manufactures imports (% of merchandise imports)

The value for Manufactures imports (% of merchandise imports) in Ireland was 81.06 as of 2020. As the graph below shows, over the past 57 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 81.78 in 2000 and a minimum value of 55.48 in 1963.

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
1963 55.48
1964 57.92
1965 57.81
1966 58.12
1967 58.36
1968 60.76
1969 65.55
1970 65.53
1971 64.48
1972 65.60
1973 67.83
1974 62.06
1975 63.60
1976 64.50
1977 65.49
1978 70.28
1979 69.16
1980 66.04
1981 65.60
1982 66.27
1983 66.96
1984 68.16
1985 68.07
1986 70.95
1987 72.85
1988 75.99
1989 76.41
1990 75.93
1991 76.12
1992 76.94
1993 73.05
1994 73.98
1995 75.71
1996 76.71
1997 79.14
1998 80.85
1999 81.48
2000 81.78
2001 81.56
2002 81.27
2003 79.11
2004 77.86
2005 76.86
2006 75.48
2007 73.31
2008 69.63
2009 68.48
2010 69.99
2011 71.04
2012 71.29
2013 70.42
2014 73.38
2015 77.30
2016 79.65
2017 78.69
2018 79.31
2019 79.84
2020 81.06

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