Early-demographic dividend | 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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The World Bank
Origin
Early-demographic dividend
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63
Source
Early-demographic dividend | Merchandise imports from low- and middle-income economies outside region (% of total merchandise imports)
5.32235842 1960
4.46738813 1961
5.01631491 1962
4.93422633 1963
4.92778202 1964
5.19276943 1965
6.14344155 1966
5.26605444 1967
5.26641281 1968
5.65818782 1969
5.86563023 1970
5.94829777 1971
5.99524246 1972
6.59231238 1973
7.96995764 1974
7.35130179 1975
7.67091261 1976
7.62879064 1977
7.0292733 1978
7.10668203 1979
7.70142084 1980
7.51878609 1981
8.04900547 1982
8.52845935 1983
8.88982872 1984
9.20639562 1985
7.97180844 1986
8.59857167 1987
8.36162879 1988
8.92863967 1989
8.70779753 1990
6.98695307 1991
7.14023097 1992
7.44225254 1993
7.97748412 1994
9.38210933 1995
9.5085574 1996
9.31505094 1997
9.89704912 1998
10.60667058 1999
10.74370396 2000
11.9529063 2001
12.81672171 2002
14.75844924 2003
15.93543175 2004
16.60042321 2005
19.57122148 2006
21.37909854 2007
23.19327124 2008
24.55861679 2009
24.94926661 2010
25.49431707 2011
25.66293112 2012
25.80495465 2013
27.19650889 2014
28.45319642 2015
28.73914124 2016
29.49773002 2017
29.28183727 2018
29.57711211 2019
30.45076731 2020
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Early-demographic dividend | 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
Early-demographic dividend
Records
63
Source