United Kingdom - Fuel imports (% of merchandise imports)

The value for Fuel imports (% of merchandise imports) in United Kingdom was 10.27 as of 2021. As the graph below shows, over the past 59 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 20.02 in 1974 and a minimum value of 2.47 in 1998.

Definition: Fuels comprise the commodities in SITC section 3 (mineral fuels, lubricants and related materials).

Source: World Bank staff estimates through the WITS platform from the Comtrade database maintained by the United Nations Statistics Division.

See also:

Year Value
1962 11.89
1963 11.67
1964 10.61
1965 10.70
1966 10.53
1967 11.35
1968 11.46
1969 10.95
1970 10.45
1971 12.70
1972 11.15
1973 10.89
1974 20.02
1975 17.92
1976 18.12
1977 14.35
1978 11.71
1979 11.88
1980 13.47
1981 14.12
1982 13.00
1983 10.74
1984 13.05
1985 12.51
1986 7.44
1987 6.47
1988 4.73
1989 5.13
1990 6.24
1991 6.51
1992 5.54
1993 5.37
1994 4.19
1995 3.53
1996 3.87
1997 3.51
1998 2.47
1999 2.69
2000 4.05
2001 4.15
2002 4.04
2003 4.43
2004 6.04
2005 8.58
2006 9.56
2007 9.57
2008 12.39
2009 9.16
2010 10.15
2011 12.84
2012 13.95
2013 13.53
2014 11.81
2015 8.09
2016 6.28
2017 8.12
2018 10.09
2019 8.19
2020 5.31
2021 10.27

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