Tonga - Manufactures imports (% of merchandise imports)

The value for Manufactures imports (% of merchandise imports) in Tonga was 47.53 as of 2014. As the graph below shows, over the past 39 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 57.24 in 1987 and a minimum value of 18.26 in 2006.

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.

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Year Value
1975 51.59
1976 46.42
1977 47.96
1978 49.20
1979 53.09
1980 49.85
1981 47.82
1982 50.48
1983 48.56
1984 50.15
1985 53.36
1986 55.13
1987 57.24
2000 21.75
2001 22.03
2002 23.22
2003 23.32
2004 24.25
2005 20.33
2006 18.26
2007 19.63
2008 38.63
2009 39.59
2010 44.79
2011 44.06
2012 45.18
2013 42.06
2014 47.53

Limitations and Exceptions: Previous editions contained data based on the SITC revision 1. Data for earlier years in previous editions may differ because of the change in methodology. Concordance tables are available to convert data reported in one system to another.

Statistical Concept and Methodology: The classification of commodity groups is based on the Standard International Trade Classification (SITC) revision 3.

Aggregation method: Weighted average

Periodicity: Annual

General Comments: Merchandise import shares may not sum to 100 percent because of unclassified trade.

Classification

Topic: Private Sector & Trade Indicators

Sub-Topic: Imports