Uruguay - Manufactures imports (% of merchandise imports)

The value for Manufactures imports (% of merchandise imports) in Uruguay was 70.08 as of 2020. As the graph below shows, over the past 50 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 79.77 in 1993 and a minimum value of 44.95 in 1974.

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
1970 59.91
1971 61.94
1972 55.77
1974 44.95
1975 49.77
1976 50.70
1977 57.31
1978 51.81
1979 56.62
1980 56.21
1981 56.66
1982 50.71
1983 45.14
1984 46.13
1985 51.95
1986 64.42
1987 69.19
1993 79.77
1994 76.71
1995 74.35
1996 73.98
1997 76.47
1998 79.41
1999 74.10
2000 69.48
2001 71.94
2002 65.25
2003 59.09
2004 61.96
2005 62.95
2006 59.71
2007 64.61
2008 58.42
2009 62.54
2010 67.20
2011 65.20
2012 60.86
2013 67.27
2014 70.24
2015 72.43
2016 73.84
2017 71.53
2018 68.57
2019 69.16
2020 70.08

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