IDA blend - Manufactures imports (% of merchandise imports)

The value for Manufactures imports (% of merchandise imports) in IDA blend was 62.29 as of 2020. As the graph below shows, over the past 58 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 78.01 in 1966 and a minimum value of 56.04 in 2011.

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 72.67
1963 71.39
1964 73.38
1965 76.44
1966 78.01
1967 74.17
1968 73.99
1970 77.47
1971 76.42
1972 71.26
1973 72.10
1974 69.04
1975 69.10
1976 68.84
1977 71.23
1978 68.67
1979 67.21
1981 63.18
1983 62.18
1984 61.41
1985 62.79
1986 71.10
1987 71.37
1996 66.91
1997 64.47
1998 64.79
1999 61.08
2000 60.26
2001 60.88
2002 64.39
2003 60.92
2006 63.33
2007 65.79
2008 66.18
2009 68.64
2010 67.03
2011 56.04
2012 61.02
2013 56.72
2014 59.77
2015 62.74
2016 62.03
2017 59.09
2018 60.00
2019 64.22
2020 62.29

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