Guinea-Bissau - Manufactures imports (% of merchandise imports)

The value for Manufactures imports (% of merchandise imports) in Guinea-Bissau was 31.14 as of 2005. As the graph below shows, over the past 35 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 60.79 in 1970 and a minimum value of 31.14 in 2005.

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 60.79
1971 55.14
1972 59.76
1975 46.14
1976 58.86
2003 35.87
2004 48.60
2005 31.14

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