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