Arab World | 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
Arab World
Records
63
Source
Arab World | Merchandise imports from low- and middle-income economies outside region (% of total merchandise imports)
9.01931801 1960
8.93948977 1961
11.43503677 1962
10.007573 1963
11.18737983 1964
12.79114757 1965
12.47154883 1966
12.95555196 1967
13.29578065 1968
12.92489807 1969
13.28510574 1970
13.63896508 1971
13.56530564 1972
12.87786284 1973
13.96821776 1974
11.34476871 1975
10.43109405 1976
9.44468038 1977
8.03505998 1978
8.03396478 1979
7.77883912 1980
7.5010196 1981
7.41066707 1982
7.87848149 1983
8.88974175 1984
9.7614093 1985
10.19500437 1986
11.46882704 1987
12.31870375 1988
12.13829936 1989
11.72635365 1990
12.90661589 1991
13.3645903 1992
14.92924578 1993
15.91261686 1994
17.7302023 1995
18.10937718 1996
18.45377334 1997
18.79890785 1998
19.78760949 1999
20.30899053 2000
21.99584007 2001
22.71129258 2002
24.78808933 2003
26.39283028 2004
27.24522035 2005
26.49750462 2006
27.95138065 2007
31.57208321 2008
30.26688173 2009
31.47822226 2010
32.98651916 2011
37.59543448 2012
30.49007844 2013
31.69495879 2014
32.39700706 2015
33.02157929 2016
40.86575446 2017
40.4347823 2018
44.00665221 2019
44.46617999 2020
2021
2022
Arab World | 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
Arab World
Records
63
Source