United Kingdom - Transport services imports

Transport services (% of commercial service imports)

The value for Transport services (% of commercial service imports) in United Kingdom was 9.19 as of 2020. As the graph below shows, over the past 50 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 60.75 in 1974 and a minimum value of 9.19 in 2020.

Definition: Transport services (% of commercial service imports) covers all transport services (sea, air, land, internal waterway, space, and pipeline) performed by residents of one economy for those of another and involving the carriage of passengers, movement of goods (freight), rental of carriers with crew, and related support and auxiliary services. Excluded are freight insurance, which is included in insurance services; goods procured in ports by nonresident carriers and repairs of transport equipment, which are included in goods; repairs of railway facilities, harbors, and airfield facilities, which are included in construction services; and rental of carriers without crew, which is included in other services.

Source: International Monetary Fund, Balance of Payments Statistics Yearbook and data files.

See also:

Year Value
1970 50.63
1971 54.31
1972 59.84
1973 57.86
1974 60.75
1975 55.81
1976 57.18
1977 55.89
1978 54.08
1979 54.94
1980 52.58
1981 50.36
1982 46.80
1983 44.72
1984 41.96
1985 41.85
1986 37.71
1987 36.17
1988 36.81
1989 34.46
1990 33.16
1991 30.73
1992 30.11
1993 28.52
1994 27.91
1995 27.09
1996 26.91
1997 28.81
1998 26.63
1999 18.90
2000 19.94
2001 18.98
2002 18.11
2003 17.13
2004 16.92
2005 16.91
2006 16.40
2007 15.99
2008 14.79
2009 13.74
2010 14.34
2011 14.90
2012 14.57
2013 14.51
2014 14.28
2015 14.35
2016 13.44
2017 12.90
2018 12.66
2019 12.43
2020 9.19

Classification

Topic: Private Sector & Trade Indicators

Sub-Topic: Imports