Papua New Guinea - Transport services imports

Transport services (% of commercial service imports)

The value for Transport services (% of commercial service imports) in Papua New Guinea was 19.54 as of 2018. As the graph below shows, over the past 42 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 70.25 in 1978 and a minimum value of 16.46 in 1993.

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
1976 59.00
1977 65.82
1978 70.25
1979 66.58
1980 67.22
1981 58.20
1982 54.54
1983 55.08
1984 50.27
1985 52.40
1986 52.41
1987 50.95
1988 47.65
1989 43.62
1990 35.63
1991 25.59
1992 18.22
1993 16.46
1994 28.67
1995 25.18
1996 23.11
1997 24.00
1998 20.26
1999 24.86
2000 21.09
2001 26.12
2002 22.55
2003 26.43
2004 28.00
2005 24.20
2006 24.17
2007 25.32
2008 29.94
2009 24.20
2010 21.56
2011 22.00
2012 20.92
2013 19.52
2014 23.54
2015 30.65
2016 26.86
2017 23.50
2018 19.54

Classification

Topic: Private Sector & Trade Indicators

Sub-Topic: Imports