Yemen - Manufactures imports (% of merchandise imports)

The value for Manufactures imports (% of merchandise imports) in Yemen was 31.42 as of 2019. As the graph below shows, over the past 44 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 57.26 in 2004 and a minimum value of 25.31 in 2018.

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
1975 48.93
2001 50.17
2002 52.80
2003 54.78
2004 57.26
2005 50.04
2006 52.19
2007 52.23
2008 44.93
2009 49.70
2010 46.66
2011 36.77
2012 36.00
2013 36.68
2014 54.59
2015 40.46
2018 25.31
2019 31.42

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