Burkina Faso | 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
Burkina Faso
Records
63
Source
Burkina Faso | Imports of goods and services (% of GDP)
15.83940461 1960
15.7899764 1961
15.70596469 1962
15.6690092 1963
11.51843946 1964
11.37662058 1965
11.64848834 1966
13.92730705 1967
15.28739068 1968
16.53239462 1969
16.14177019 1970
19.9310891 1971
21.28899967 1972
22.91953873 1973
24.47291572 1974
30.15111636 1975
27.00824323 1976
30.44326689 1977
27.75082927 1978
29.28244368 1979
31.26250766 1980
31.43511365 1981
31.62403532 1982
29.57414785 1983
28.75779204 1984
31.02608229 1985
28.97116629 1986
28.08112953 1987
27.13098209 1988
23.64589735 1989
24.45595903 1990
23.34868798 1991
19.52753601 1992
20.67354067 1993
25.02760109 1994
26.60691488 1995
27.61669256 1996
26.60388778 1997
28.13168055 1998
26.90081028 1999
26.27822449 2000
22.61408805 2001
22.44715722 2002
21.14780475 2003
24.5993563 2004
24.33032229 2005
24.14967885 2006
23.43117507 2007
25.23598993 2008
26.50701281 2009
28.55738968 2010
31.30175258 2011
34.64052256 2012
36.95886585 2013
31.89155834 2014
32.98153577 2015
31.977208 2016
32.81639457 2017
32.51671948 2018
31.15099722 2019
28.92838141 2020
29.70609731 2021
33.09930169 2022
Burkina Faso | 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
Burkina Faso
Records
63
Source