Guinea - Manufactures imports (% of merchandise imports)

The value for Manufactures imports (% of merchandise imports) in Guinea was 58.46 as of 2016. As the graph below shows, over the past 21 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 63.92 in 1997 and a minimum value of 29.49 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
1995 47.35
1996 48.83
1997 63.92
1998 63.13
1999 58.84
2000 48.66
2001 56.09
2002 52.95
2004 54.29
2005 29.49
2006 48.69
2007 56.40
2008 53.22
2013 46.84
2014 41.69
2015 58.88
2016 58.46

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