Low & middle 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 & middle income
Records
63
Source
Low & middle income | Merchandise imports from low- and middle-income economies outside region (% of total merchandise imports)
5.87985807 1960
5.30786557 1961
5.78161333 1962
5.61212073 1963
5.68896483 1964
5.83605197 1965
6.63960321 1966
5.7731073 1967
5.63711562 1968
6.00136349 1969
6.04930456 1970
6.34479065 1971
6.19768489 1972
6.63716842 1973
8.68597677 1974
8.0833638 1975
8.36168122 1976
8.47634946 1977
7.96723079 1978
8.74878633 1979
9.73609358 1980
8.58179378 1981
9.16310484 1982
9.60548559 1983
9.88755311 1984
10.03936226 1985
7.87135498 1986
8.55413957 1987
8.36350815 1988
8.3226003 1989
7.94142438 1990
6.47883375 1991
7.53810089 1992
7.91557859 1993
7.2154464 1994
7.65101611 1995
8.52257758 1996
8.61176914 1997
8.69619935 1998
9.26209086 1999
9.96711763 2000
10.98061087 2001
11.24273673 2002
12.30420198 2003
13.40477371 2004
14.2596013 2005
15.82231634 2006
17.54029029 2007
19.47209713 2008
19.74970017 2009
20.25481519 2010
21.05143502 2011
21.57551601 2012
21.46802425 2013
22.32124813 2014
21.78740418 2015
21.53440004 2016
22.27624867 2017
22.82723603 2018
23.14248713 2019
22.75607411 2020
2021
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Low & middle 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 & middle income
Records
63
Source