Qatar: Manufactures imports (% of merchandise imports)

Key figures

What the numbers say

In 2024, Qatar's manufactures imports (% of merchandise imports) fell 2.58 percentage points on 2023 (from 76.95% to 74.37%).

Across the 30 yearly changes before that (1982 to 2023), the average change was +0.14 percentage points and a typical year strayed about 3.67 percentage points from that (the standard deviation). This year's change was 0.7 standard deviations below that average, so it was an ordinary year: it sits within the range of normal year-to-year movement.

On record, the biggest yearly rise was 11.94 percentage points in 1975 and the biggest yearly fall was 6.92 percentage points in 1984. The numbers show how large and when, not why; for the cause, look at what happened in that country in those years.

From 2015 to 2024 the straight-line trend is downward, about 0.47 percentage points a year. A straight line explains 61% of the movement over 10 observed years.

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

How it compares

In 2024, Qatar had the 2nd highest value of the 36 economies reporting that year. Higher is not always better: for some indicators the lowest value is the one to aim for. See the full ranking.

Closest to Qatar in the 2024 ranking

• Iraq — 1st of 36: 76.32%
• Costa Rica — 3rd of 36: 73.86%
• Cambodia — 4th of 36: 72.54%
• Uruguay — 5th of 36: 69.56%

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 45 values

Manufactures imports (% of merchandise imports) in nearby economies

• Afghanistan — 41.09% (2019)
• Algeria — 64.61% (2024)
• Bahrain — 57.35% (2024)
• Djibouti — 51.87% (2023)
• Egypt, Arab Rep. — 50.41% (2025)
• Iran, Islamic Rep. — 57.55% (2023)
• Iraq — 76.32% (2024)
• Israel — 75.15% (2025)
• Jordan — 56.85% (2024)
• Kuwait

More private sector & trade data for Qatar

• Merchandise imports (current US$) — US$37.54 billion (2025)
• Merchandise exports (current US$) — US$88.77 billion (2025)
• Merchandise trade (% of GDP) — 58.6% (2025)
• Merchandise imports from economies in the Arab World (% of total merchandise imports) — 8.7% (2023)
• Merchandise imports from high-income economies (% of total merchandise imports) — 65.91% (2023)
• Merchandise imports from low- and middle-income economies outside region (% of total merchandise imports) — 32.26% (2023)
• Merchandise imports from low- and middle-income economies in East Asia & Pacific (% of total merchandise imports) — 19.6% (2023)
• Merchandise imports from low- and middle-income economies in Middle East & North Africa (% of total merchandise imports)

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Questions people ask

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

74.37% in 2024, according to the World Bank (World Development Indicators).

How has it changed since 1972?

It is down 2.78 percentage points from 77.15% in 1972. The highest value was 91.12% in 2007 and the lowest 71.91% in 1974.

How does Qatar rank?

2nd highest of 36 economies with data for 2024.

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

In 2024, Qatar's manufactures imports (% of merchandise imports) fell 2.58 percentage points on 2023 (from 76.95% to 74.37%). Across the 30 yearly changes before that (1982 to 2023), the average change was +0.14 percentage points and a typical year strayed about 3.67 percentage points from that (the standard deviation). This year's change was 0.7 standard deviations below that average, so it was an ordinary year: it sits within the range of normal year-to-year movement.

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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