Europe & Central Asia | Imports of goods and services (current US$)
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. Data are in current U.S. dollars. 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
Europe & Central Asia
Records
63
Source
Europe & Central Asia | Imports of goods and services (current US$)
1960
1961
1962
1963
1964
1965
1966
1967
1968
1969
207876352606.75 1970
231772138634.98 1971
276901788460.03 1972
381110606234.35 1973
517057100479.9 1974
541016452211.87 1975
604631246402.41 1976
682770528841.38 1977
793993690175.07 1978
1029991073714.8 1979
1238234639357.5 1980
1118524622032.1 1981
1071977754813.1 1982
1026999045873.7 1983
1035659783609.3 1984
1075119340575.3 1985
1302081862224.4 1986
1594560805401.7 1987
1801886889331.5 1988
1932256933014.4 1989
2290710514899.2 1990
2273237154654.2 1991
2589184772791.3 1992
2250712570687.1 1993
2431411983393.3 1994
2931193812388.5 1995
3009111504088.2 1996
3017717057943.8 1997
3153526400895 1998
3188651330726.2 1999
3350496772020.9 2000
3349824566444.9 2001
3529010966558.2 2002
4245844484099.6 2003
5121003113536.7 2004
5690499026132.3 2005
6529804675112.5 2006
7729675165756.8 2007
8734218129786.3 2008
6808035789983.8 2009
7620864437469.8 2010
8954649099950.3 2011
8581738831660.7 2012
8903948616024.3 2013
9051510419348.8 2014
7904341761186.7 2015
7943291288277.3 2016
8752089625636.8 2017
9637948335488.9 2018
9606643531168 2019
8732706996019.8 2020
10655188887274 2021
12045697788524 2022
Europe & Central Asia | Imports of goods and services (current US$)
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. Data are in current U.S. dollars. 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
Europe & Central Asia
Records
63
Source