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