Central African Republic - Manufactures imports (% of merchandise imports)

The value for Manufactures imports (% of merchandise imports) in Central African Republic was 72.22 as of 2018. As the graph below shows, over the past 56 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 82.87 in 2015 and a minimum value of 35.55 in 2004.

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 76.48
1963 75.46
1964 79.23
1965 77.65
1966 77.08
1967 78.81
1968 78.44
1969 74.68
1970 79.91
1971 77.89
1973 80.88
1974 80.73
1975 81.27
1976 78.73
1977 81.22
1978 79.44
1979 79.83
1980 74.61
1993 62.68
1994 55.45
1995 64.24
1996 64.57
1997 64.86
1998 59.52
1999 59.96
2000 54.32
2001 60.91
2002 63.79
2003 55.92
2004 35.55
2005 36.93
2006 38.20
2007 62.24
2008 68.31
2009 55.96
2010 67.20
2011 63.86
2012 65.88
2013 60.52
2014 71.77
2015 82.87
2016 82.17
2017 76.53
2018 72.22

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