East Asia & Pacific | 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
East Asia & Pacific
Records
63
Source
East Asia & Pacific | Merchandise imports from low- and middle-income economies outside region (% of total merchandise imports)
1960 16.61173027
1961 15.89919866
1962 16.91465589
1963 17.79898498
1964 18.74066001
1965 19.30481153
1966 21.80692878
1967 20.32219386
1968 21.43619017
1969 22.41886491
1970 21.44169666
1971 21.49247514
1972 21.9950568
1973 22.26641222
1974 22.83598572
1975 22.45327262
1976 21.50276083
1977 21.56637009
1978 19.55285857
1979 20.70892633
1980 20.89569115
1981 18.56393233
1982 19.41789885
1983 19.54826182
1984 19.32391872
1985 19.70491935
1986 18.53608184
1987 18.67131919
1988 18.5893725
1989 18.76322705
1990 18.80127463
1991 20.43440724
1992 21.4988381
1993 22.53783653
1994 22.67517092
1995 22.42736455
1996 23.38106913
1997 24.59721772
1998 25.18546352
1999 25.98598855
2000 26.58345467
2001 27.10606675
2002 27.21578477
2003 27.45291381
2004 27.58382914
2005 27.88844476
2006 28.21945051
2007 28.72848243
2008 29.09567768
2009 28.78168884
2010 28.91406137
2011 29.0970277
2012 29.15525201
2013 28.8289773
2014 29.17087171
2015 28.69740232
2016 28.24619396
2017 28.27826902
2018 28.64230218
2019 28.80259817
2020 28.31620085
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East Asia & Pacific | 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
East Asia & Pacific
Records
63
Source