Afghanistan - Manufactures imports (% of merchandise imports)

The value for Manufactures imports (% of merchandise imports) in Afghanistan was 41.09 as of 2019. As the graph below shows, over the past 57 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 65.81 in 1973 and a minimum value of 6.57 in 2012.

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
1962 28.65
1963 41.06
1964 30.25
1965 28.52
1966 24.30
1967 27.79
1968 33.29
1969 40.32
1970 54.31
1971 37.09
1972 62.74
1973 65.81
1974 56.65
1975 46.77
1976 49.92
1977 46.47
2008 32.23
2009 16.66
2010 19.08
2011 13.72
2012 6.57
2013 7.00
2014 8.41
2015 16.50
2016 24.60
2017 40.70
2018 45.22
2019 41.09

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