Benin - Manufactures imports

Manufactures imports (% of merchandise imports)

The value for Manufactures imports (% of merchandise imports) in Benin was 46.82 as of 2021. As the graph below shows, over the past 59 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 75.69 in 1970 and a minimum value of 29.84 in 2017.

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.

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Year Value
1962 63.69
1963 69.16
1964 67.52
1965 69.79
1966 69.10
1967 71.59
1968 71.11
1969 74.19
1970 75.69
1971 74.46
1972 70.22
1973 69.15
1974 70.37
1979 64.00
1980 62.05
1982 68.08
1998 48.55
1999 59.02
2000 52.65
2001 56.15
2002 52.58
2003 50.43
2004 47.70
2005 44.53
2006 41.81
2007 44.10
2008 44.75
2009 48.00
2010 38.57
2011 46.09
2012 37.50
2013 42.42
2014 37.72
2015 39.13
2016 34.26
2017 29.84
2018 33.19
2019 40.12
2020 46.77
2021 46.82

Classification

Topic: Private Sector & Trade Indicators

Sub-Topic: Imports