Samoa - Manufactures imports (% of merchandise imports)

The value for Manufactures imports (% of merchandise imports) in Samoa was 53.94 as of 2019. As the graph below shows, over the past 57 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 64.89 in 1979 and a minimum value of 31.72 in 2008.

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
1962 56.39
1963 53.16
1964 52.01
1965 49.04
1966 40.81
1967 49.03
1968 47.64
1969 53.96
1970 58.20
1971 54.43
1972 58.58
1973 57.85
1974 50.23
1975 54.11
1976 54.13
1977 59.65
1978 61.31
1979 64.89
1980 57.05
1981 59.89
1982 56.78
1983 57.38
2001 61.20
2002 32.86
2003 34.93
2004 40.29
2005 38.20
2006 41.21
2007 33.55
2008 31.72
2009 32.11
2010 54.04
2011 49.03
2012 45.64
2013 46.10
2014 48.18
2015 55.72
2016 55.51
2017 53.18
2018 49.48
2019 53.94

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