Low income - Manufactures imports (% of merchandise imports)

The value for Manufactures imports (% of merchandise imports) in Low income was 59.33 as of 2019. As the graph below shows, over the past 18 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 65.36 in 2004 and a minimum value of 54.89 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
2001 59.36
2002 62.34
2003 65.03
2004 65.36
2005 63.81
2007 65.24
2008 57.84
2009 61.45
2010 58.30
2011 54.89
2015 60.84
2018 59.93
2019 59.33

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