Bhutan - Services, value added (constant 2010 US$)

The latest value for Services, value added (constant 2010 US$) in Bhutan was 1,041,203,000 as of 2020. Over the past 40 years, the value for this indicator has fluctuated between 1,117,806,000 in 2019 and 45,921,470 in 1980.

Definition: Services correspond to ISIC divisions 50-99. 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. Data are in constant 2010 U.S. dollars.

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

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Year Value
1980 45,921,470
1981 47,758,610
1982 46,744,940
1983 47,913,290
1984 49,677,560
1985 58,325,420
1986 66,557,360
1987 75,904,830
1988 83,578,160
1989 91,625,460
1990 121,478,600
1991 123,591,300
1992 123,321,700
1993 130,532,800
1994 133,696,400
1995 140,599,900
1996 159,261,800
1997 177,406,100
1998 197,249,700
1999 210,518,500
2000 235,945,600
2001 249,924,200
2002 268,000,800
2003 293,124,300
2004 324,779,300
2005 372,854,000
2006 403,266,400
2007 427,723,600
2008 447,716,700
2009 507,112,400
2010 568,642,900
2011 644,024,300
2012 648,314,200
2013 658,823,700
2014 713,112,300
2015 773,761,900
2016 849,594,000
2017 906,669,400
2018 987,429,800
2019 1,117,806,000
2020 1,041,203,000

Development Relevance: An economy's growth is measured by the change in the volume of its output or in the real incomes of its residents. The 2008 United Nations System of National Accounts (2008 SNA) offers three plausible indicators for calculating growth: the volume of gross domestic product (GDP), real gross domestic income, and real gross national income. The volume of GDP is the sum of value added, measured at constant prices, by households, government, and industries operating in the economy. GDP accounts for all domestic production, regardless of whether the income accrues to domestic or foreign institutions.

Limitations and Exceptions: In the services industries, including most of government, value added in constant prices is often imputed from labor inputs, such as real wages or number of employees. In the absence of well defined measures of output, measuring the growth of services remains difficult.

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.

Aggregation method: Gap-filled total

Base Period: 2010

Periodicity: Annual

Classification

Topic: Economic Policy & Debt Indicators

Sub-Topic: National accounts