Lower middle income - Transport services imports

Transport services (% of commercial service imports)

The value for Transport services (% of commercial service imports) in Lower middle income was 31.06 as of 2020. As the graph below shows, over the past 43 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 58.37 in 1978 and a minimum value of 29.41 in 2017.

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 57.91
1978 58.37
1979 57.87
1980 56.96
1981 55.45
1982 55.41
1983 53.73
1984 53.60
1985 50.62
1986 50.27
1987 49.99
1988 51.87
1989 52.94
1990 53.91
1991 52.99
1992 52.45
1993 49.91
1994 45.05
1995 45.90
1996 45.49
1997 44.38
1998 43.01
1999 41.65
2000 43.33
2001 40.74
2002 41.84
2003 40.22
2004 40.66
2005 42.34
2006 42.28
2007 43.14
2008 39.01
2009 34.54
2010 35.02
2011 36.33
2012 35.47
2013 33.76
2014 34.12
2015 32.08
2016 30.46
2017 29.41
2018 29.59
2019 29.72
2020 31.06

Classification

Topic: Private Sector & Trade Indicators

Sub-Topic: Imports