Latin America & Caribbean | Merchandise exports to high-income economies (% of total merchandise exports)
Merchandise exports to high-income economies are the sum of merchandise exports from the reporting economy to high-income economies according to the World Bank classification of economies. Data are expressed as a percentage of total merchandise exports 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. At the regional level most exports from low- and middle-income economies are to high-income economies, but the share of intraregional trade is increasing. Geographic patterns of trade vary widely by country and commodity. Larger shares of exports from oil- and resource-rich economies are to 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
Latin America & Caribbean
Records
63
Source
Latin America & Caribbean | Merchandise exports to high-income economies (% of total merchandise exports)
1960 79.9956587
1961 80.07668875
1962 79.89908195
1963 80.73282656
1964 79.28083862
1965 78.35123856
1966 78.67977445
1967 79.16144875
1968 78.359653
1969 78.67832304
1970 78.26150895
1971 79.21026014
1972 76.39714366
1973 75.86677598
1974 73.78335185
1975 70.89513487
1976 73.44567829
1977 73.83049238
1978 73.85410675
1979 72.7617937
1980 70.76882891
1981 69.48228344
1982 72.34846588
1983 75.16078849
1984 74.67103709
1985 75.72583169
1986 76.23599459
1987 77.11454669
1988 74.87621747
1989 76.65476825
1990 76.34232891
1991 78.14000945
1992 75.7026166
1993 76.03895639
1994 73.71009626
1995 73.41835542
1996 72.49871156
1997 73.41521429
1998 74.15383982
1999 78.47598593
2000 78.7499014
2001 77.62897439
2002 78.41853826
2003 77.21761643
2004 74.62756019
2005 73.57341579
2006 73.19799896
2007 71.29523819
2008 68.9448437
2009 67.99633818
2010 66.80884311
2011 66.60485673
2012 65.84396554
2013 65.42483428
2014 66.5254474
2015 68.52775384
2016 68.88668738
2017 67.36040442
2018 66.96279796
2019 68.42458436
2020 67.31786897
2021
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Latin America & Caribbean | Merchandise exports to high-income economies (% of total merchandise exports)
Merchandise exports to high-income economies are the sum of merchandise exports from the reporting economy to high-income economies according to the World Bank classification of economies. Data are expressed as a percentage of total merchandise exports 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. At the regional level most exports from low- and middle-income economies are to high-income economies, but the share of intraregional trade is increasing. Geographic patterns of trade vary widely by country and commodity. Larger shares of exports from oil- and resource-rich economies are to 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
Latin America & Caribbean
Records
63
Source