Fragile and conflict affected situations | 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
Fragile and conflict affected situations
Records
63
Source
Fragile and conflict affected situations | Merchandise imports from low- and middle-income economies outside region (% of total merchandise imports)
1960 5.89414535
1961 6.43943886
1962 6.5798162
1963 6.11931194
1964 5.68068142
1965 5.69134023
1966 6.64623383
1967 6.44391412
1968 5.66589879
1969 6.85621608
1970 5.91958776
1971 7.03309383
1972 6.56843902
1973 6.65685946
1974 8.19826374
1975 6.32830267
1976 5.3588042
1977 4.86334113
1978 4.33470626
1979 3.80815282
1980 3.48375517
1981 5.46158986
1982 6.04239972
1983 5.92920972
1984 7.50532126
1985 8.58552837
1986 7.03331609
1987 7.63645905
1988 7.65551082
1989 7.58465811
1990 8.79820177
1991 8.53680541
1992 8.33725241
1993 9.02186723
1994 9.89259716
1995 10.87946782
1996 10.56680231
1997 10.54492175
1998 11.78260189
1999 13.04889973
2000 15.30136523
2001 16.73921361
2002 18.39747795
2003 20.4367673
2004 22.00778422
2005 19.56106514
2006 18.12545657
2007 19.95998111
2008 23.2399952
2009 24.73874793
2010 25.54922678
2011 22.13009998
2012 22.98922709
2013 23.60376095
2014 26.8114846
2015 28.57660728
2016 30.97491858
2017 30.90066524
2018 30.72633885
2019 32.74409313
2020 34.03997072
2021
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Fragile and conflict affected situations | 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
Fragile and conflict affected situations
Records
63
Source