Barbados - Transport services imports

Transport services (% of commercial service imports)

The value for Transport services (% of commercial service imports) in Barbados was 16.20 as of 2016. As the graph below shows, over the past 49 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 60.11 in 1979 and a minimum value of 14.58 in 2013.

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
1967 24.54
1968 37.89
1969 40.55
1970 42.53
1971 42.24
1972 40.57
1973 45.83
1974 57.07
1975 57.87
1976 58.69
1977 57.34
1978 58.08
1979 60.11
1980 59.27
1981 56.25
1982 53.43
1983 57.51
1984 58.50
1985 54.65
1986 41.54
1987 35.11
1988 40.81
1989 38.37
1990 38.38
1991 41.99
1992 37.26
1993 33.68
1994 33.81
1995 33.58
1996 32.98
1997 34.01
1998 34.20
1999 33.60
2000 29.02
2001 30.03
2002 28.20
2003 25.26
2004 29.69
2005 26.63
2006 28.05
2007 29.91
2008 26.22
2009 21.74
2010 23.51
2011 23.19
2012 21.29
2013 14.58
2014 18.81
2015 17.42
2016 16.20

Classification

Topic: Private Sector & Trade Indicators

Sub-Topic: Imports