Sudan - Services, value added (% of GDP)

Services, value added (% of GDP) in Sudan was 36.31 as of 2020. Its highest value over the past 38 years was 52.10 in 1994, while its lowest value was 10.88 in 2007.

Definition: Services correspond to ISIC divisions 50-99 and they include value added in wholesale and retail trade (including hotels and restaurants), transport, and government, financial, professional, and personal services such as education, health care, and real estate services. Also included are imputed bank service charges, import duties, and any statistical discrepancies noted by national compilers as well as discrepancies arising from rescaling. Value added is the net output of a sector after adding up all outputs and subtracting intermediate inputs. It is calculated without making deductions for depreciation of fabricated assets or depletion and degradation of natural resources. The industrial origin of value added is determined by the International Standard Industrial Classification (ISIC), revision 3 or 4.

Source: World Bank national accounts data, and OECD National Accounts data files.

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Year Value
1982 44.78
1983 47.13
1984 49.56
1985 46.86
1986 45.19
1987 49.01
1988 42.45
1989 44.27
1990 42.47
1991 43.87
1992 45.48
1993 44.36
1994 52.10
1995 48.95
1996 39.89
1997 37.17
1998 36.83
1999 36.86
2000 35.71
2001 25.34
2002 20.01
2003 20.84
2004 19.61
2005 18.00
2006 19.86
2007 10.88
2008 15.50
2009 26.46
2010 30.83
2011 38.01
2012 46.05
2013 45.83
2014 46.06
2015 48.77
2016 50.15
2017 51.37
2018 51.29
2019 37.64
2020 36.31

Limitations and Exceptions: In the services industry the many self-employed workers and one-person businesses are sometimes difficult to locate, and they have little incentive to respond to surveys, let alone to report their full earnings. Compounding these problems are the many forms of economic activity that go unrecorded, including the work that women and children do for little or no pay.

Statistical Concept and Methodology: Gross domestic product (GDP) represents the sum of value added by all its producers. Value added is the value of the gross output of producers less the value of intermediate goods and services consumed in production, before accounting for consumption of fixed capital in production. The United Nations System of National Accounts calls for value added to be valued at either basic prices (excluding net taxes on products) or producer prices (including net taxes on products paid by producers but excluding sales or value added taxes). Both valuations exclude transport charges that are invoiced separately by producers. Total GDP is measured at purchaser prices. Value added by industry is normally measured at basic prices. Financial intermediation services indirectly measured (FISIM) is an indirect measure of the value of financial intermediation services (i.e. output) provided but for which financial institutions do not charge explicitly as compared to explicit bank charges. Although the 1993 SNA recommends that the FISIM are allocated as intermediate and final consumption to the users, many countries still make a global (negative) adjustment to the sum of gross value added.

Aggregation method: Weighted average

Periodicity: Annual

Classification

Topic: Economic Policy & Debt Indicators

Sub-Topic: National accounts