Austria | Imports of goods and services (% of GDP)
Imports of goods and services represent the value of all goods and other market services received from the rest of the world. They include the value of merchandise, freight, insurance, transport, travel, royalties, license fees, and other services, such as communication, construction, financial, information, business, personal, and government services. They exclude compensation of employees and investment income (formerly called factor services) and transfer payments. Limitations and exceptions: Because policymakers have tended to focus on fostering the growth of output, and because data on production are easier to collect than data on spending, many countries generate their primary estimate of GDP using the production approach. Moreover, many countries do not estimate all the components of national expenditures but instead derive some of the main aggregates indirectly using GDP (based on the production approach) as the control total. Data on exports and imports are compiled from customs reports and balance of payments data. Although the data from the payments side provide reasonably reliable records of cross-border transactions, they may not adhere strictly to the appropriate definitions of valuation and timing used in the balance of payments or corresponds to the change-of ownership criterion. This issue has assumed greater significance with the increasing globalization of international business. Neither customs nor balance of payments data usually capture the illegal transactions that occur in many countries. Goods carried by travelers across borders in legal but unreported shuttle trade may further distort trade statistics. Statistical concept and methodology: Gross domestic product (GDP) from the expenditure side is made up of household final consumption expenditure, general government final consumption expenditure, gross capital formation (private and public investment in fixed assets, changes in inventories, and net acquisitions of valuables), and net exports (exports minus imports) of goods and services. Such expenditures are recorded in purchaser prices and include net taxes on products.
Publisher
The World Bank
Origin
Republic of Austria
Records
63
Source
Austria | Imports of goods and services (% of GDP)
1960
1961
1962
1963
1964
1965
1966
1967
1968
1969
27.46863443 1970
27.34511658 1971
27.36535323 1972
27.53745283 1973
30.45336257 1974
28.5044981 1975
31.16375564 1976
32.32363958 1977
30.55289489 1978
32.43644404 1979
35.13193407 1980
35.39588802 1981
32.37561727 1982
31.99398599 1983
33.82398845 1984
35.16184048 1985
32.01688287 1986
31.44751767 1987
33.49162381 1988
35.52315624 1989
35.79095508 1990
35.45791742 1991
34.47489993 1992
31.80115269 1993
33.82855945 1994
34.72346076 1995
35.83439501 1996
37.83960748 1997
38.57612821 1998
38.90310246 1999
42.01422167 2000
42.91910925 2001
41.6287818 2002
41.8169677 2003
43.92513072 2004
45.41405348 2005
47.24664234 2006
48.17238464 2007
48.82482212 2008
41.85481441 2009
47.75763591 2010
51.15411778 2011
51.17850123 2012
50.62512079 2013
50.1169562 2014
49.33825483 2015
48.57568463 2016
50.88769179 2017
52.46142039 2018
52.1317298 2019
48.12334824 2020
55.03312075 2021
61.60226372 2022
Austria | Imports of goods and services (% of GDP)
Imports of goods and services represent the value of all goods and other market services received from the rest of the world. They include the value of merchandise, freight, insurance, transport, travel, royalties, license fees, and other services, such as communication, construction, financial, information, business, personal, and government services. They exclude compensation of employees and investment income (formerly called factor services) and transfer payments. Limitations and exceptions: Because policymakers have tended to focus on fostering the growth of output, and because data on production are easier to collect than data on spending, many countries generate their primary estimate of GDP using the production approach. Moreover, many countries do not estimate all the components of national expenditures but instead derive some of the main aggregates indirectly using GDP (based on the production approach) as the control total. Data on exports and imports are compiled from customs reports and balance of payments data. Although the data from the payments side provide reasonably reliable records of cross-border transactions, they may not adhere strictly to the appropriate definitions of valuation and timing used in the balance of payments or corresponds to the change-of ownership criterion. This issue has assumed greater significance with the increasing globalization of international business. Neither customs nor balance of payments data usually capture the illegal transactions that occur in many countries. Goods carried by travelers across borders in legal but unreported shuttle trade may further distort trade statistics. Statistical concept and methodology: Gross domestic product (GDP) from the expenditure side is made up of household final consumption expenditure, general government final consumption expenditure, gross capital formation (private and public investment in fixed assets, changes in inventories, and net acquisitions of valuables), and net exports (exports minus imports) of goods and services. Such expenditures are recorded in purchaser prices and include net taxes on products.
Publisher
The World Bank
Origin
Republic of Austria
Records
63
Source