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)
16.61173027 1960
15.89919866 1961
16.91465589 1962
17.79898498 1963
18.74066001 1964
19.30481153 1965
21.80692878 1966
20.32219386 1967
21.43619017 1968
22.41886491 1969
21.44169666 1970
21.49247514 1971
21.9950568 1972
22.26641222 1973
22.83598572 1974
22.45327262 1975
21.50276083 1976
21.56637009 1977
19.55285857 1978
20.70892633 1979
20.89569115 1980
18.56393233 1981
19.41789885 1982
19.54826182 1983
19.32391872 1984
19.70491935 1985
18.53608184 1986
18.67131919 1987
18.5893725 1988
18.76322705 1989
18.80127463 1990
20.43440724 1991
21.4988381 1992
22.53783653 1993
22.67517092 1994
22.42736455 1995
23.38106913 1996
24.59721772 1997
25.18546352 1998
25.98598855 1999
26.58345467 2000
27.10606675 2001
27.21578477 2002
27.45291381 2003
27.58382914 2004
27.88844476 2005
28.21945051 2006
28.72848243 2007
29.09567768 2008
28.78168884 2009
28.91406137 2010
29.0970277 2011
29.15525201 2012
28.8289773 2013
29.17087171 2014
28.69740232 2015
28.24619396 2016
28.27826902 2017
28.64230218 2018
28.80259817 2019
28.31620085 2020
2021
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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