IDA only | 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.
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The World Bank
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IDA only
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63
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IDA only | Merchandise imports from high-income economies (% of total merchandise imports)
76.63981803 1960
76.48583783 1961
74.9861596 1962
73.64900104 1963
68.13495404 1964
67.98835635 1965
70.10904218 1966
69.67873528 1967
68.00679085 1968
67.8231363 1969
68.67072213 1970
69.68622745 1971
68.31035796 1972
67.54741523 1973
65.75811264 1974
68.55106693 1975
71.50872358 1976
70.40429978 1977
69.92142107 1978
67.65420081 1979
67.43340308 1980
65.99518754 1981
65.15244156 1982
64.79715924 1983
61.87865917 1984
64.10950367 1985
65.13252877 1986
67.24518375 1987
67.33671609 1988
65.91594478 1989
67.52226432 1990
67.36661771 1991
65.83309383 1992
64.16744708 1993
62.26972287 1994
60.99197478 1995
57.61822918 1996
59.19612566 1997
59.7621453 1998
57.99860719 1999
51.24234505 2000
52.90636169 2001
51.29938848 2002
46.80365303 2003
44.03876681 2004
44.49289242 2005
44.44323722 2006
43.71341767 2007
41.62543442 2008
39.21079141 2009
41.09204204 2010
41.10880525 2011
40.26681766 2012
38.8813969 2013
37.23203828 2014
38.69610187 2015
35.74426693 2016
38.51431842 2017
37.0310589 2018
36.9365483 2019
36.30931514 2020
2021
2022
IDA only | 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
IDA only
Records
63
Source