High income | 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
High income
Records
63
Source
High income | Imports of goods and services (current US$)
1960
1961
1962
1963
1964
1965
1966
1967
1968
1969
310546192880.03 1970
345310434973.91 1971
410755953015.17 1972
558399938460.66 1973
779882411168.02 1974
803532859164.7 1975
918263338062.01 1976
1053431601672 1977
1230837045778.1 1978
1570085238751.6 1979
1878861223333.1 1980
1844202206822.2 1981
1760347292862.4 1982
1743589327119.8 1983
1860508331913.8 1984
1886352723435.7 1985
2145102837247.7 1986
2552436677300.8 1987
2929223885734.9 1988
3189249255282.1 1989
3674754285205.9 1990
3766963063627.7 1991
4023391063235.4 1992
3886035908120 1993
4344802329381.6 1994
5162292021863.8 1995
5394102353369.4 1996
5522339096852.1 1997
5560249260341.5 1998
5852342567660.4 1999
6485835008446.6 2000
6260983644466.5 2001
6475935166938.8 2002
7468608374435.5 2003
8920768031830.6 2004
9987744194480.2 2005
11316078655364 2006
12899750822530 2007
14489289275718 2008
11451336165141 2009
13228080102954 2010
15431427490364 2011
15323376429282 2012
15624566524292 2013
16052756453184 2014
14494385261850 2015
14310631375678 2016
15567567167255 2017
17000307067290 2018
16838512034503 2019
15196843829010 2020
18495184521699 2021
20853372093762 2022
High income | 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
High income
Records
63
Source