St. Kitts and Nevis: Manufactures exports (% of merchandise exports)

Key figures

What the numbers say

In 2017, St. Kitts and Nevis' manufactures exports (% of merchandise exports) rose 0.79 percentage points on 2016 (from 85.58% to 86.37%).

Across the 24 yearly changes before that (1982 to 2016), the average change was +0.91 percentage points and a typical year strayed about 7.71 percentage points from that (the standard deviation). This year's change was 0.0 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 26.48 percentage points in 2005 and the biggest yearly fall was 12.98 percentage points in 1996. The numbers show how large and when, not why; for the cause, look at what happened in that country in those years.

From 2008 to 2017 the straight-line trend is downward, about 0.46 percentage points a year. A straight line explains 46% 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

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Closest to St. Kitts and Nevis in the 2017 ranking

• Haiti — 2nd of 2: 64.33%

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 exports which is comprised of goods whose economic ownership is changed between a resident and a non-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 29 values

Manufactures exports (% of merchandise exports) in nearby economies

• Antigua and Barbuda — 14.81% (2024)
• Argentina — 12.62% (2025)
• Aruba — 21.85% (2023)
• Bahamas, The — 31.15% (2024)
• Barbados — 41.2% (2025)
• Belize — 3.24% (2025)
• Bolivia — 8.29% (2025)
• Brazil — 23.85% (2025)
• Chile — 11.31% (2025)
• Colombia

More private sector & trade data for St. Kitts and Nevis

• Merchandise trade (% of GDP) — 37.52% (2025)
• Merchandise imports (current US$) — US$410 million (2025)
• Merchandise exports (current US$) — US$34 million (2025)
• Insurance and financial services (% of commercial service imports) — 18.53% (2025)
• Computer, communications and other services (% of commercial service imports) — 37.19% (2025)
• Commercial service imports (current US$) — US$256.5 million (2025)
• Transport services (% of commercial service imports) — 26.33% (2025)
• Travel services (% of commercial service imports) — 17.95% (2025)

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Questions people ask

What is St. Kitts and Nevis's manufactures exports (% of merchandise exports)?

86.37% in 2017, according to the World Bank (World Development Indicators).

How has it changed since 1981?

It is up 58.29 percentage points from 28.07% in 1981. The highest value was 95.47% in 2005 and the lowest 25.04% in 1982.

Is the latest change in manufactures exports (% of merchandise exports) unusual for St. Kitts and Nevis?

In 2017, St. Kitts and Nevis' manufactures exports (% of merchandise exports) rose 0.79 percentage points on 2016 (from 85.58% to 86.37%). Across the 24 yearly changes before that (1982 to 2016), the average change was +0.91 percentage points and a typical year strayed about 7.71 percentage points from that (the standard deviation). This year's change was 0.0 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 TX.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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