Africa Eastern and Southern | Merchandise exports to high-income economies (% of total merchandise exports)
Merchandise exports to high-income economies are the sum of merchandise exports from the reporting economy to high-income economies according to the World Bank classification of economies. Data are expressed as a percentage of total merchandise exports by the economy. Data are computed only if at least half of the economies in the partner country group had non-missing data. Development relevance: Low- and middle-income economies are an increasingly important part of the global trading system. Trade between high-income economies and low- and middle-income economies has grown faster than trade between high-income economies. This increased trade benefits both producers and consumers in developing and high-income economies. At the regional level most exports from low- and middle-income economies are to high-income economies, but the share of intraregional trade is increasing. Geographic patterns of trade vary widely by country and commodity. Larger shares of exports from oil- and resource-rich economies are to high-income economies. Limitations and exceptions: Data on exports and imports are from the International Monetary Fund's (IMF) Direction of Trade database and should be broadly consistent with data from other sources, such as the United Nations Statistics Division's Commodity Trade (Comtrade) database. All high-income economies and major low- and middle-income economies report trade data to the IMF on a timely basis, covering about 85 percent of trade for recent years. Trade data for less timely reporters and for countries that do not report are estimated using reports of trading partner countries. Therefore, data on trade between developing and high-income economies should be generally complete. But trade flows between many low- and middle-income economies - particularly those in Sub-Saharan Africa - are not well recorded, and the value of trade among low- and middle-income economies may be understated.
Publisher
The World Bank
Origin
Africa Eastern and Southern
Records
63
Source
Africa Eastern and Southern | Merchandise exports to high-income economies (% of total merchandise exports)
1960 81.95389682
1961 83.69121922
1962 84.35659412
1963 79.95021297
1964 76.16439497
1965 74.41224336
1966 77.39304815
1967 79.68240775
1968 76.70487104
1969 77.6138128
1970 75.93745412
1971 77.08574658
1972 74.71547145
1973 75.21416836
1974 76.80203632
1975 78.58761555
1976 82.65913947
1977 82.21635389
1978 82.0558681
1979 80.83428031
1980 79.94920625
1981 77.44060685
1982 79.65323758
1983 78.65347738
1984 80.85890466
1985 81.36990274
1986 80.38226834
1987 78.63527362
1988 77.72087652
1989 78.41749113
1990 79.24798418
1991 78.39100201
1992 76.12135746
1993 73.52255372
1994 70.66389886
1995 70.8437337
1996 69.10418164
1997 72.79268013
1998 60.79212818
1999 66.88439946
2000 62.68783624
2001 58.50199872
2002 57.63976264
2003 60.38950209
2004 60.00730118
2005 58.45044249
2006 63.78621044
2007 55.08511135
2008 52.86556459
2009 53.76638275
2010 48.5162969
2011 47.1330541
2012 41.10278802
2013 40.42771558
2014 42.00415341
2015 43.13173497
2016 42.77169781
2017 42.01690077
2018 40.7013656
2019 42.55960165
2020 44.42379859
2021
2022
Africa Eastern and Southern | Merchandise exports to high-income economies (% of total merchandise exports)
Merchandise exports to high-income economies are the sum of merchandise exports from the reporting economy to high-income economies according to the World Bank classification of economies. Data are expressed as a percentage of total merchandise exports by the economy. Data are computed only if at least half of the economies in the partner country group had non-missing data. Development relevance: Low- and middle-income economies are an increasingly important part of the global trading system. Trade between high-income economies and low- and middle-income economies has grown faster than trade between high-income economies. This increased trade benefits both producers and consumers in developing and high-income economies. At the regional level most exports from low- and middle-income economies are to high-income economies, but the share of intraregional trade is increasing. Geographic patterns of trade vary widely by country and commodity. Larger shares of exports from oil- and resource-rich economies are to high-income economies. Limitations and exceptions: Data on exports and imports are from the International Monetary Fund's (IMF) Direction of Trade database and should be broadly consistent with data from other sources, such as the United Nations Statistics Division's Commodity Trade (Comtrade) database. All high-income economies and major low- and middle-income economies report trade data to the IMF on a timely basis, covering about 85 percent of trade for recent years. Trade data for less timely reporters and for countries that do not report are estimated using reports of trading partner countries. Therefore, data on trade between developing and high-income economies should be generally complete. But trade flows between many low- and middle-income economies - particularly those in Sub-Saharan Africa - are not well recorded, and the value of trade among low- and middle-income economies may be understated.
Publisher
The World Bank
Origin
Africa Eastern and Southern
Records
63
Source