Ethiopia - Changes in inventories in % of GDP

0.2 (%) in 2016

In 2016, changes in inventories for Ethiopia was 0.2 %. Though Ethiopia changes in inventories fluctuated substantially in recent years, it tended to decrease through 2012 - 2016 period ending at 0.2 % in 2016.

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Changes in inventories (including work-in-progress) consist of changes in: (a) stocks of outputs that are still held by the units that produced them prior to their being further processed, sold, delivered to other units or used in other ways; and (b) stocks of products acquired from other units that are intended to be used for intermediate consumption or for resale without further processing; they are measured by the value of the entries into inventories less the value of withdrawals and the value of any recurrent losses of goods held in inventories.