Low & middle 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 & middle income
Records
63
Source
Low & middle income | Merchandise exports to high-income economies (% of total merchandise exports)
79.46760329 1960
79.7873573 1961
79.48508805 1962
79.20553617 1963
76.19027797 1964
75.26280075 1965
77.0291502 1966
78.94321309 1967
77.65090418 1968
78.014321 1969
77.84038766 1970
77.97487064 1971
77.67286669 1972
77.75582138 1973
78.79691658 1974
76.77949279 1975
79.7250562 1976
79.2955988 1977
80.01695737 1978
81.1248461 1979
79.83079575 1980
75.2083951 1981
76.96919262 1982
77.4765898 1983
77.50517578 1984
77.56781508 1985
77.92779764 1986
78.11460172 1987
77.00588069 1988
78.8071298 1989
79.26175332 1990
81.3661087 1991
78.81071662 1992
79.09696369 1993
77.15862545 1994
75.28088571 1995
75.19816393 1996
76.59569237 1997
77.02631201 1998
79.19092199 1999
78.53680654 2000
77.49141611 2001
76.79485775 2002
76.13139076 2003
75.40208481 2004
74.53114726 2005
73.93289511 2006
70.93796268 2007
69.10432117 2008
67.58898979 2009
67.01930627 2010
65.05875322 2011
65.42049511 2012
64.87342834 2013
64.91976456 2014
65.98910357 2015
65.83983334 2016
64.42175111 2017
63.94654056 2018
63.37195761 2019
63.83703744 2020
2021
2022

Low & middle 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 & middle income
Records
63
Source