Haiti: Manufactures imports (% of merchandise imports)

Key figures

Since 1970 it is down 13.39 percentage points from 68.28% in 1970. The World Bank has no value for 32 of the years in between; the chart leaves those gaps open rather than joining across them.

What the numbers say

In 2017, Haiti's manufactures imports (% of merchandise imports) rose 11.04 percentage points on 2016 (from 43.86% to 54.9%).

Across the 12 yearly changes before that (1971 to 2016), the average change was −0.86 percentage points and a typical year strayed about 3.02 percentage points from that (the standard deviation). This year's change was 3.9 standard deviations above that average, so it was unusually large compared with the rest of the record.

On record, the biggest yearly rise was 11.04 percentage points in 2017 and the biggest yearly fall was 6.41 percentage points in 1974. The numbers show how large and when, not why; for the cause, look at what happened in that country in those years.

Worked out from the yearly values above. How the checks work: standard deviation, z-scores and straight-line trends.

How it compares

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Closest to Haiti in the 2017 ranking

• St. Kitts and Nevis — 1st of 2: 71.07%

What this measures

Manufactures comprise commodities in SITC (Rev. 3) sections 5 (chemicals), 6 (basic manufactures), 7 (machinery and transport equipment), and 8 (miscellaneous manufactured goods), excluding division 68 (non-ferrous metals). This indicator is expressed as a percentage of merchandise imports which is comprised of goods whose economic ownership is changed between a non-resident and a resident and that are not included in the following specific categories: goods under merchanting, non-monetary gold, and parts of travel, construction, and government goods and services n.i.e.

Limitations: Previous editions contained data based on the SITC revision 1. Data for earlier years in previous editions may differ because of the change in methodology. Concordance tables are available to convert data reported in one system to another.

Regional and income-group figures are computed by the World Bank as a weighted average.

All 16 values

Manufactures imports (% of merchandise imports) in nearby economies

• Antigua and Barbuda — 68.53% (2024)
• Argentina — 83.4% (2025)
• Aruba — 61.48% (2023)
• Bahamas, The — 61.15% (2024)
• Barbados — 58.85% (2025)
• Belize — 64.22% (2025)
• Bolivia — 60.42% (2025)
• Brazil — 79.66% (2025)
• Chile — 70.16% (2025)
• Colombia

More private sector & trade data for Haiti

• Merchandise trade (% of GDP) — 16.15% (2025)
• Merchandise imports (current US$) — US$4.63 billion (2025)
• Merchandise exports (current US$) — US$554 million (2025)
• Merchandise imports from high-income economies (% of total merchandise imports) — 42.26% (2023)
• Merchandise imports from low- and middle-income economies in Latin America & the Caribbean (% of total merchandise imports) — 14.11% (2023)
• Merchandise imports by the reporting economy, residual (% of total merchandise imports) — 2.13% (2023)
• Merchandise imports by the reporting economy (current US$) — US$2.14 billion (2023)
• Merchandise imports from low- and middle-income economies within region (% of total merchandise imports)

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Questions people ask

What is Haiti's manufactures imports (% of merchandise imports)?

54.9% in 2017, according to the World Bank (World Development Indicators).

How has it changed since 1970?

It is down 13.39 percentage points from 68.28% in 1970. The highest value was 68.28% in 1970 and the lowest 43.86% in 2016.

Is the latest change in manufactures imports (% of merchandise imports) unusual for Haiti?

In 2017, Haiti's manufactures imports (% of merchandise imports) rose 11.04 percentage points on 2016 (from 43.86% to 54.9%). Across the 12 yearly changes before that (1971 to 2016), the average change was −0.86 percentage points and a typical year strayed about 3.02 percentage points from that (the standard deviation). This year's change was 3.9 standard deviations above that average, so it was unusually large compared with the rest of the record.

Where does this data come from?

The World Bank's World Development Indicators, licensed CC BY 4.0. Original source: Comtrade database, United Nations (UN), publisher: UN Statistics Division; World Integrated Trade Solution system (WITS); Staff estimates, World Bank (WB).

Source

World Bank, World Development Indicators, indicator TM.VAL.MANF.ZS.UN, licensed CC BY 4.0. Original source: Comtrade database, United Nations (UN), publisher: UN Statistics Division; World Integrated Trade Solution system (WITS); Staff estimates, World Bank (WB) Figures are fetched from the World Bank API and refreshed monthly; see the series on data.worldbank.org. The full definition and method are in the World Bank's metadata glossary. Comparisons use the same World Bank release.

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