Upper middle 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
Upper middle income
Records
63
Source
Upper middle income | Imports of goods and services (current US$)
21003708974.423 1960
19225973290.578 1961
19463078779.672 1962
22050552968.607 1963
25254073095.085 1964
27529245999.233 1965
29555607843.635 1966
30750740157.47 1967
32951747587.239 1968
35288882114.596 1969
40823567468.332 1970
44938371527.141 1971
50507711216.682 1972
69952715540.752 1973
109073971706.52 1974
123249784845.25 1975
127909168930.54 1976
142209688815.34 1977
166389015827.01 1978
214975440189.99 1979
289248685845.05 1980
338929979978 1981
309366317389.79 1982
278352460203.87 1983
292156629070.21 1984
300742074771.46 1985
290539337572.02 1986
333681708506.51 1987
405700717850.22 1988
444130160327.09 1989
474726303502.4 1990
464762176915.81 1991
687192825317.55 1992
671274930350.66 1993
704952844832.14 1994
821236555775.12 1995
872951961623.45 1996
944069423737.57 1997
867027816022.44 1998
873606706360.28 1999
1060431624105.9 2000
1058689589343.1 2001
1123843771289 2002
1341515350411.3 2003
1722610177560.1 2004
2031179282502.9 2005
2398077424878.9 2006
2892469161669 2007
3528136204353 2008
2879911866159.7 2009
3778739028886.3 2010
4680008855975.9 2011
4948614197124.2 2012
5228289920397.8 2013
5262751542177 2014
4541276175661.8 2015
4337768233076.6 2016
4905116315778.9 2017
5507784126859.9 2018
5390633584436.8 2019
4836464133305 2020
6496608550736.5 2021
7154980610239.2 2022
Upper middle 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
Upper middle income
Records
63
Source