Sri Lanka | Exports of goods and services (% of GDP)
Exports of goods and services represent the value of all goods and other market services provided to 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
Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka
Records
63
Source
Sri Lanka | Exports of goods and services (% of GDP)
29.95324989 1960
27.53754368 1961
27.79267364 1962
25.75680754 1963
24.61552213 1964
25.90301831 1965
22.37015713 1966
20.46032976 1967
20.62144257 1968
18.39247542 1969
25.45374707 1970
24.61209964 1971
22.32570342 1972
24.34796783 1973
26.43136595 1974
27.48993491 1975
29.04678343 1976
33.8149257 1977
34.77088949 1978
33.71065341 1979
32.21849775 1980
30.45938474 1981
27.3564562 1982
26.32873085 1983
28.8040014 1984
26.01200924 1985
23.71819874 1986
25.19227543 1987
26.07643863 1988
27.26020382 1989
30.18080451 1990
28.7410869 1991
31.77037408 1992
33.80100688 1993
33.8128838 1994
35.59762913 1995
34.97333778 1996
36.53811808 1997
36.24381868 1998
35.48370472 1999
39.01570089 2000
37.33118848 2001
34.9133302 2002
34.65350283 2003
35.33090273 2004
32.33687299 2005
30.12852709 2006
29.11499969 2007
24.8414871 2008
21.32836624 2009
2010
2011
2012
2013
2014
19.89338382 2015
19.82403604 2016
20.22420004 2017
21.44624861 2018
21.82353289 2019
15.4327065 2020
16.93312874 2021
21.48418033 2022
Sri Lanka | Exports of goods and services (% of GDP)
Exports of goods and services represent the value of all goods and other market services provided to 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
Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka
Records
63
Source