Africa Eastern and Southern | Merchandise imports from high-income economies (% of total merchandise imports)
Merchandise imports from high-income economies are the sum of merchandise imports by the reporting economy from high-income economies according to the World Bank classification of economies. Data are expressed as a percentage of total merchandise imports 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. 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.
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The World Bank
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Africa Eastern and Southern
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63
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Africa Eastern and Southern | Merchandise imports from high-income economies (% of total merchandise imports)
75.41475302 1960
74.75920425 1961
74.29620563 1962
73.40084605 1963
65.41382138 1964
66.08978867 1965
67.53657806 1966
70.75122971 1967
67.77554536 1968
67.28317707 1969
68.26688255 1970
69.27161184 1971
67.55671126 1972
67.21830332 1973
66.14602899 1974
68.05426706 1975
67.94211329 1976
68.92888974 1977
70.96862557 1978
71.49617463 1979
73.45919535 1980
72.40863538 1981
69.89269261 1982
69.29665991 1983
68.18981676 1984
69.43677012 1985
68.96164777 1986
71.55126178 1987
72.30377567 1988
69.63621535 1989
66.31508774 1990
66.11528986 1991
63.75003344 1992
60.3068677 1993
56.77242119 1994
58.04857613 1995
51.59843853 1996
57.73494077 1997
72.09449803 1998
71.21962985 1999
61.96611507 2000
60.78491748 2001
57.81836765 2002
57.7446768 2003
53.73259368 2004
54.73458992 2005
55.39727845 2006
54.37262174 2007
51.14276787 2008
48.66394253 2009
49.95764211 2010
49.09584255 2011
48.76043524 2012
47.39932172 2013
46.38433064 2014
45.01799971 2015
43.08149761 2016
45.22836928 2017
44.74557531 2018
44.97805629 2019
42.4460851 2020
2021
2022
Africa Eastern and Southern | Merchandise imports from high-income economies (% of total merchandise imports)
Merchandise imports from high-income economies are the sum of merchandise imports by the reporting economy from high-income economies according to the World Bank classification of economies. Data are expressed as a percentage of total merchandise imports 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. 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