Latin America & Caribbean | 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
Latin America & Caribbean
Records
63
Source
Latin America & Caribbean | Merchandise imports from low- and middle-income economies outside region (% of total merchandise imports)
1960 2.31842727
1961 2.38367548
1962 2.6228148
1963 3.56256061
1964 3.77790119
1965 3.43310548
1966 3.65989913
1967 3.43280871
1968 3.36825256
1969 3.82227608
1970 4.03052692
1971 5.58000287
1972 6.00937977
1973 7.28532281
1974 10.85597306
1975 9.7548823
1976 10.70215693
1977 11.01443866
1978 10.49277341
1979 12.19641562
1980 10.00628244
1981 8.74662472
1982 8.91587336
1983 11.21334213
1984 12.90724678
1985 12.30727681
1986 8.87003179
1987 8.72867616
1988 7.21817577
1989 7.79692234
1990 7.39785987
1991 5.55636414
1992 5.06712669
1993 5.5266742
1994 5.9288373
1995 6.75276609
1996 7.45178412
1997 7.25450025
1998 6.88643077
1999 7.10682468
2000 8.39860144
2001 9.26948063
2002 10.1511219
2003 12.6174878
2004 14.82526195
2005 16.1746811
2006 17.81698047
2007 19.08231903
2008 20.92161736
2009 20.70351291
2010 22.87409177
2011 23.67545449
2012 23.56265545
2013 24.84939847
2014 25.81371589
2015 27.19131711
2016 27.39377633
2017 27.84282144
2018 28.37147862
2019 29.3708338
2020 30.60464615
2021
2022
Latin America & Caribbean | 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
Latin America & Caribbean
Records
63
Source