Africa Western and Central | 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 Western and Central
Records
63
Source
Africa Western and Central | Merchandise imports from low- and middle-income economies outside region (% of total merchandise imports)
3.75489899 1960
4.06733769 1961
4.51490096 1962
4.94634884 1963
5.68520991 1964
7.08274904 1965
6.44742713 1966
6.61597965 1967
6.50413937 1968
5.76910096 1969
4.96548035 1970
4.95998107 1971
4.73566643 1972
6.56490163 1973
7.83379245 1974
5.19306644 1975
4.97206045 1976
4.85062248 1977
5.0765873 1978
6.61361701 1979
8.19839259 1980
7.25991499 1981
7.58980575 1982
6.6242797 1983
7.07785301 1984
8.76336368 1985
7.25465222 1986
6.15291198 1987
7.45112198 1988
7.15483757 1989
6.50452597 1990
7.06612337 1991
8.95885804 1992
9.95737839 1993
9.35081602 1994
10.67847947 1995
11.60883671 1996
12.04574817 1997
12.425997 1998
14.02269859 1999
19.89774745 2000
19.43234365 2001
19.25052242 2002
16.92741411 2003
17.12699295 2004
17.8520635 2005
19.3051039 2006
21.4779793 2007
23.98033362 2008
23.65972815 2009
23.73187388 2010
23.29178228 2011
26.43248993 2012
25.96392012 2013
28.83313758 2014
31.95185734 2015
32.10511361 2016
32.60212382 2017
34.07705638 2018
35.31275108 2019
37.03379051 2020
2021
2022
Africa Western and Central | 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 Western and Central
Records
63
Source