IDA blend - Transport services imports

Transport services (% of commercial service imports)

The value for Transport services (% of commercial service imports) in IDA blend was 34.24 as of 2020. As the graph below shows, over the past 43 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 58.38 in 1978 and a minimum value of 31.46 in 2018.

Definition: Transport services (% of commercial service imports) covers all transport services (sea, air, land, internal waterway, space, and pipeline) performed by residents of one economy for those of another and involving the carriage of passengers, movement of goods (freight), rental of carriers with crew, and related support and auxiliary services. Excluded are freight insurance, which is included in insurance services; goods procured in ports by nonresident carriers and repairs of transport equipment, which are included in goods; repairs of railway facilities, harbors, and airfield facilities, which are included in construction services; and rental of carriers without crew, which is included in other services.

Source: International Monetary Fund, Balance of Payments Statistics Yearbook and data files.

See also:

Year Value
1977 56.75
1978 58.38
1979 55.61
1980 54.17
1981 57.68
1982 55.10
1983 54.92
1984 55.15
1985 53.64
1986 52.27
1987 51.35
1988 54.49
1989 53.31
1990 49.34
1991 50.54
1992 52.90
1993 43.58
1994 43.86
1995 41.64
1996 33.42
1997 39.69
1998 40.47
1999 45.03
2000 43.32
2001 42.21
2002 40.71
2003 36.38
2005 38.33
2006 33.88
2007 36.82
2008 38.23
2009 43.49
2010 47.29
2011 44.54
2012 43.66
2013 44.85
2014 43.63
2015 41.28
2016 44.53
2017 33.29
2018 31.46
2019 32.15
2020 34.24

Classification

Topic: Private Sector & Trade Indicators

Sub-Topic: Imports