Papua New Guinea - Manufactures imports (% of merchandise imports)

The value for Manufactures imports (% of merchandise imports) in Papua New Guinea was 69.53 as of 2012. As the graph below shows, over the past 41 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 75.97 in 2011 and a minimum value of 55.80 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
1971 71.77
1972 66.25
1973 63.75
1974 59.18
1975 62.96
1976 58.48
1981 55.80
1982 57.92
1983 58.69
1984 60.75
1985 63.04
1986 69.02
1987 70.50
1998 75.84
2000 56.86
2001 59.80
2002 68.09
2003 68.71
2004 64.88
2011 75.97
2012 69.53

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