Low income | 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
Low income
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63
Source
Low income | Merchandise exports to high-income economies (% of total merchandise exports)
1960 65.50756467
1961 67.48204668
1962 64.73288587
1963 62.34420163
1964 66.10095208
1965 66.64825883
1966 69.1598107
1967 69.48151776
1968 66.81595965
1969 69.65364298
1970 67.05615361
1971 69.97335025
1972 64.27405359
1973 64.90774381
1974 65.16235813
1975 63.30726384
1976 73.48091842
1977 72.67513678
1978 66.72780639
1979 65.39776903
1980 64.29032776
1981 66.65669916
1982 70.45316514
1983 67.85535344
1984 67.7503464
1985 67.99676274
1986 63.5007708
1987 63.43402357
1988 64.08245077
1989 59.16403936
1990 64.5522449
1991 61.24844074
1992 66.42833431
1993 61.6900812
1994 62.14073394
1995 59.1229527
1996 46.55522928
1997 53.58364739
1998 69.53188854
1999 65.56021278
2000 58.98017741
2001 61.94943909
2002 62.67134121
2003 58.79557425
2004 51.05665112
2005 46.3938983
2006 53.29797356
2007 56.37548575
2008 50.82640718
2009 47.99299668
2010 52.58651288
2011 52.58619662
2012 45.77216791
2013 43.58366785
2014 44.13025089
2015 44.86340867
2016 43.36609023
2017 46.80292668
2018 42.54233637
2019 48.06663247
2020 48.85327874
2021
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Low income | 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
Low income
Records
63
Source