Sri Lanka - Transport services imports

Transport services (% of commercial service imports)

The value for Transport services (% of commercial service imports) in Sri Lanka was 49.37 as of 2020. As the graph below shows, over the past 45 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 70.86 in 1977 and a minimum value of 37.59 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
1975 70.31
1976 69.47
1977 70.86
1978 62.20
1979 67.78
1980 61.73
1981 57.09
1982 55.08
1983 57.36
1984 56.53
1985 59.85
1986 57.83
1987 58.23
1988 59.80
1989 62.12
1990 64.24
1991 59.69
1992 60.90
1993 58.43
1994 57.19
1995 58.08
1996 58.83
1997 59.87
1998 59.85
1999 58.94
2000 61.57
2001 48.70
2002 56.70
2003 58.41
2004 60.60
2005 61.79
2006 62.01
2007 62.82
2008 66.15
2009 62.29
2010 65.94
2011 69.91
2012 47.13
2013 40.27
2014 40.06
2015 39.54
2016 38.61
2017 38.78
2018 38.31
2019 37.59
2020 49.37

Classification

Topic: Private Sector & Trade Indicators

Sub-Topic: Imports