Africa Eastern and Southern | Merchandise imports from low- and middle-income economies outside region (% of total merchandise imports)
Merchandise imports from low- and middle-income economies outside region are the sum of merchandise imports by the reporting economy from other low- and middle-income economies in other World Bank regions 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: Although global integration has increased, low- and middle-income economies still face trade barriers when accessing other markets. 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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Africa Eastern and Southern
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Africa Eastern and Southern | Merchandise imports from low- and middle-income economies outside region (% of total merchandise imports)
12.95341644 1960
12.06229184 1961
13.37413301 1962
9.52441995 1963
6.76182034 1964
8.08388762 1965
9.07869013 1966
9.00400357 1967
8.80971565 1968
9.78781786 1969
8.85645749 1970
12.66889945 1971
10.82774392 1972
11.55874701 1973
14.02524959 1974
13.8196286 1975
15.12234537 1976
13.9669044 1977
11.78744096 1978
11.11517129 1979
9.94805382 1980
8.23727341 1981
10.07014731 1982
10.05082103 1983
10.94177679 1984
9.82781892 1985
9.72269877 1986
9.78572256 1987
11.14295592 1988
10.31360695 1989
11.87269098 1990
12.87405559 1991
14.40767767 1992
14.38412914 1993
16.59084836 1994
15.61716193 1995
15.36229008 1996
16.34549428 1997
16.33482804 1998
15.92731769 1999
15.94559674 2000
16.81806966 2001
16.54396631 2002
18.32629279 2003
19.38402635 2004
21.70686412 2005
22.0877203 2006
25.52560953 2007
27.20631723 2008
28.57686334 2009
27.21943932 2010
27.63217964 2011
27.81158579 2012
28.74405412 2013
30.05641419 2014
32.0784296 2015
33.60725745 2016
33.43799052 2017
33.80710261 2018
33.59144416 2019
35.60247954 2020
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Africa Eastern and Southern | Merchandise imports from low- and middle-income economies outside region (% of total merchandise imports)
Merchandise imports from low- and middle-income economies outside region are the sum of merchandise imports by the reporting economy from other low- and middle-income economies in other World Bank regions 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: Although global integration has increased, low- and middle-income economies still face trade barriers when accessing other markets. 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
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