Liberia - Manufactures imports (% of merchandise imports)

The value for Manufactures imports (% of merchandise imports) in Liberia was 52.99 as of 1984. As the graph below shows, over the past 21 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 73.75 in 1972 and a minimum value of 48.57 in 1981.

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
1963 70.59
1967 73.62
1970 73.56
1971 71.62
1972 73.75
1973 71.73
1974 62.67
1975 68.91
1976 69.89
1977 67.76
1978 63.40
1979 59.27
1980 50.65
1981 48.57
1982 49.36
1983 53.71
1984 52.99

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