High income | 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
High income
Records
63
Source
High income | Merchandise imports from low- and middle-income economies outside region (% of total merchandise imports)
18.44515226 1960
17.66669974 1961
17.51420127 1962
17.49628401 1963
17.7628857 1964
17.1413532 1965
17.2386503 1966
16.60806278 1967
16.30481964 1968
15.79700706 1969
15.02923287 1970
14.38570749 1971
14.17902215 1972
14.97559145 1973
18.21479861 1974
17.37066046 1975
17.69047847 1976
18.22583745 1977
16.95681706 1978
17.63281378 1979
17.9171461 1980
16.42743507 1981
16.73541788 1982
16.90218166 1983
16.88389017 1984
16.63474758 1985
13.60833268 1986
13.46745609 1987
13.45960137 1988
14.26060636 1989
14.44552162 1990
15.15023628 1991
16.09332666 1992
18.74283024 1993
19.44602722 1994
19.50421761 1995
20.36293047 1996
20.82727477 1997
20.42744463 1998
21.16810236 1999
23.19642967 2000
23.57961218 2001
24.23345433 2002
24.92578216 2003
25.87971215 2004
27.58181483 2005
28.6626106 2006
28.95326644 2007
30.03892191 2008
30.14502111 2009
32.2475514 2010
32.25112561 2011
33.07203972 2012
32.33101968 2013
32.36189822 2014
33.06284334 2015
32.78352819 2016
33.57671796 2017
33.56206235 2018
33.49238573 2019
33.99082567 2020
2021
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High income | 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
High income
Records
63
Source