Arab World | 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
Arab World
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63
Source
Arab World | Merchandise imports from high-income economies (% of total merchandise imports)
1960 77.69509149
1961 76.08317521
1962 72.12898359
1963 72.21271702
1964 73.04567164
1965 67.71131574
1966 72.76997001
1967 70.61276272
1968 70.77933646
1969 71.03858579
1970 70.28266817
1971 70.35398252
1972 71.60517797
1973 74.11759997
1974 73.68056836
1975 79.05362744
1976 81.38209746
1977 81.37787618
1978 83.26531038
1979 84.30155364
1980 84.88645664
1981 85.46201872
1982 85.28997497
1983 84.76275796
1984 82.57371747
1985 81.54804627
1986 80.70772318
1987 79.23521039
1988 78.90567193
1989 78.7775727
1990 77.57785399
1991 77.85556007
1992 78.04862614
1993 77.84292621
1994 76.0962782
1995 74.29807709
1996 73.8023901
1997 75.73731107
1998 75.87218747
1999 75.26386675
2000 73.07144359
2001 72.11707595
2002 71.1118589
2003 68.31733961
2004 60.9830808
2005 62.19555526
2006 61.72607137
2007 59.32683324
2008 57.30954553
2009 54.33303433
2010 53.06250145
2011 56.52143227
2012 56.82800543
2013 54.1212214
2014 53.11514233
2015 52.7852771
2016 52.93384405
2017 55.05767061
2018 55.3257683
2019 52.70089377
2020 52.02120322
2021
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Arab World | 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
Arab World
Records
63
Source