South Africa - Manufactures imports

Manufactures imports (% of merchandise imports)

The value for Manufactures imports (% of merchandise imports) in South Africa was 65.76 as of 2020. As the graph below shows, over the past 46 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 88.53 in 1978 and a minimum value of 60.75 in 2014.

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
1974 85.65
1975 87.80
1976 86.80
1977 85.54
1978 88.53
1979 87.66
1980 62.19
1981 67.04
1982 68.53
1983 69.00
1984 72.23
1985 70.01
1992 75.16
1993 80.46
1994 83.58
1995 77.81
1996 71.55
1997 68.84
1998 75.53
1999 72.23
2000 68.23
2001 69.02
2002 69.27
2003 69.52
2004 68.01
2005 68.90
2006 65.34
2007 64.70
2008 61.41
2009 63.78
2010 64.73
2011 63.01
2012 61.56
2013 62.79
2014 60.75
2015 66.38
2016 66.39
2017 65.10
2018 62.24
2019 63.45
2020 65.76

Classification

Topic: Private Sector & Trade Indicators

Sub-Topic: Imports