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manufactured goods exporters realized as a whole 71.8 per cent of total OIC manufactured
goods exports. Labor-intensive and resource-intensive manufactures make up 97.2 per cent of
the manufactured exports in Bangladesh and 85.2 per cent in Pakistan. This is due to the high
share of textile fibers, yarn, fabrics and clothing in total manufacturing exports in Bangladesh
and Pakistan. The share of high-skill and technology-intensive manufactures in Saudi Arabia,
Iran and Kuwait ranges between 60 to 82 per cent.
Table 4: Top Ten Manufactures Exporters by Degree of Manufacturing15, 2018 (per cent)
Share of
Manufacturing
in Total OIC
Manufacturing
Share of
Manufacturing
in Country's
Total Exports
Labour-
intensive and
resource-
intensive
manufactures
Low-skill and
technology-
intensive
manufactures
Medium-skill
and
technology-
intensive
manufactures
High-skill
and
technology-
intensive
manufactures
Malaysia 20.9 68.6 9.0 4.7 17.3 68.9
Turkey 16.5 79.4 28.8 16.5 40.9 13.8
United Arab Emirates 13.5 31.7 9.5 10.4 25.3 54.8
Saudi Arabia 11.4 31.3 3.5 7.0 5.6 83.9
Indonesia 9.6 43.1 37.7 13.1 23.5 25.8
Kuwait 5.1 57.0 1.5 4.0 22.2 72.3
Bangladesh 4.5 95.0 97.2 0.7 0.9 1.1
Iran 2.6 19.4 13.8 17.2 9.0 60.0
Morocco 2.6 70.8 27.9 2.0 37.5 32.6
Pakistan 2.2 74.2 85.2 1.7 4.1 9.0
Source: UNCTADSTAT
2.2. Main Characteristics of Total OIC Merchandise Imports
The leading five exporters in total OIC exports were at the same time the main importers: United
Araba Emirates, Turkey, Indonesia, Malaysia and Saudi Arabia.
Figure 22: OIC Imports fromWorld-2018
Source: IMF Direction of Trade Statistics
15 Classification of products by degree of manufacturing is available at UNCTADstat,
0 50 100 150 200 250 300
UAE
Turkey
Indonesia
Malaysia
Saudi Arabia
Egypt
Pakistan
Bangladesh
Morocco
Algeria
Billion Dollars