São Tomé and Principe - Transport services imports

Transport services (% of commercial service imports)

The value for Transport services (% of commercial service imports) in São Tomé and Principe was 45.81 as of 2020. As the graph below shows, over the past 46 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 91.47 in 2008 and a minimum value of 33.19 in 2019.

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
1974 64.33
1975 61.99
1976 69.82
1977 82.60
1978 84.88
1979 82.72
1980 79.73
1981 75.66
1982 75.97
1983 74.82
1984 81.07
1985 82.29
1986 84.68
1987 80.09
1988 78.80
1989 70.61
1990 67.96
1997 62.14
1998 63.51
1999 68.89
2000 70.41
2001 71.07
2002 72.85
2003 74.70
2004 74.93
2005 89.80
2006 86.52
2007 89.37
2008 91.47
2009 91.34
2010 91.38
2011 87.98
2012 82.53
2013 47.41
2014 33.71
2015 39.54
2016 41.62
2017 41.07
2018 35.01
2019 33.19
2020 45.81

Classification

Topic: Private Sector & Trade Indicators

Sub-Topic: Imports