High income | Merchandise imports from high-income economies (% of total merchandise imports)

Merchandise imports from high-income economies are the sum of merchandise imports by the reporting economy from high-income economies 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: Low- and middle-income economies are an increasingly important part of the global trading system. Trade between high-income economies and low- and middle-income economies has grown faster than trade between high-income economies. This increased trade benefits both producers and consumers in developing and high-income economies. 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
High income
Records
63
Source
High income | Merchandise imports from high-income economies (% of total merchandise imports)
1960 71.20800639
1961 72.33926922
1962 72.43927127
1963 72.45160859
1964 72.53470719
1965 73.12597775
1966 73.4276488
1967 74.22277501
1968 74.35794831
1969 74.65586956
1970 74.62684167
1971 75.30387973
1972 75.74825703
1973 74.89827121
1974 71.68489537
1975 72.62202485
1976 72.96437349
1977 72.65967104
1978 74.11676668
1979 73.45816644
1980 73.29352067
1981 75.00103409
1982 74.85318324
1983 74.71709929
1984 75.11490635
1985 75.49121564
1986 78.62671724
1987 78.90522285
1988 79.07354855
1989 78.48807877
1990 78.18184231
1991 77.90079287
1992 77.71263143
1993 76.47680543
1994 75.89272399
1995 75.9514456
1996 75.08674354
1997 75.32325722
1998 76.00491046
1999 77.80758592
2000 75.41237877
2001 74.98997098
2002 74.50928193
2003 74.08878402
2004 72.89485703
2005 70.83785218
2006 69.51959566
2007 69.69390933
2008 68.54123981
2009 68.22937006
2010 66.10403873
2011 66.30493241
2012 65.75385901
2013 65.8218161
2014 65.89870133
2015 65.3994103
2016 65.92990363
2017 65.85918185
2018 65.91509819
2019 66.1124939
2020 65.55938999
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High income | Merchandise imports from high-income economies (% of total merchandise imports)

Merchandise imports from high-income economies are the sum of merchandise imports by the reporting economy from high-income economies 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: Low- and middle-income economies are an increasingly important part of the global trading system. Trade between high-income economies and low- and middle-income economies has grown faster than trade between high-income economies. This increased trade benefits both producers and consumers in developing and high-income economies. 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
High income
Records
63
Source