Lao People’s Democratic Republic - Changes in inventories in current prices

60,549,399 (US dollars) in 2005

In 2005, changes in inventories for Lao People’s Democratic Republic was 60.5 million US dollars. Changes in inventories of Lao People’s Democratic Republic increased from 16.5 million US dollars in 2002 to 60.5 million US dollars in 2005 growing at an average annual rate of 65.17%.

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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.