Low 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
Low income
Records
63
Source
Low income | Merchandise imports from low- and middle-income economies outside region (% of total merchandise imports)
1960 11.03896104
1961 10.9439721
1962 11.56789464
1963 8.59689413
1964 7.15973608
1965 7.47303157
1966 8.12425068
1967 7.43271814
1968 6.91535298
1969 8.64686361
1970 7.10592031
1971 10.09892655
1972 8.88807253
1973 9.20323231
1974 10.55919978
1975 9.64386242
1976 8.78618919
1977 9.11822756
1978 7.54145353
1979 6.97645881
1980 7.27086207
1981 7.59930433
1982 9.04857855
1983 7.11294489
1984 6.8266278
1985 6.40724374
1986 7.74942284
1987 6.86569292
1988 9.6266024
1989 8.54864678
1990 10.11630949
1991 11.38165565
1992 11.94291162
1993 12.8711774
1994 12.57899042
1995 14.66867202
1996 16.2355543
1997 14.6469117
1998 14.36003632
1999 16.00517554
2000 27.33669888
2001 27.50406207
2002 26.99177137
2003 27.98850175
2004 31.25424941
2005 27.74986409
2006 26.07039857
2007 29.71240342
2008 34.37507669
2009 35.20635067
2010 34.77726803
2011 30.87899011
2012 29.77318702
2013 26.80028781
2014 31.61139231
2015 33.44794516
2016 36.2048943
2017 34.8226292
2018 35.48929819
2019 36.30534933
2020 37.6968851
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Low 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
Low income
Records
63
Source