Lower 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
Lower middle income
Records
63
Source
Lower middle income | Merchandise exports to high-income economies (% of total merchandise exports)
1960 74.9810037
1961 75.04393992
1962 74.23113034
1963 74.98849658
1964 71.55669563
1965 70.6934272
1966 74.21097145
1967 76.25499978
1968 73.92165671
1969 73.23837054
1970 73.50749203
1971 73.19770417
1972 74.34761484
1973 77.30684192
1974 79.64636306
1975 77.20329105
1976 79.20008508
1977 79.62937988
1978 81.92786604
1979 84.11410785
1980 83.39362119
1981 78.43465814
1982 82.0419808
1983 81.56487757
1984 81.71220437
1985 80.99486152
1986 79.85388489
1987 80.35599343
1988 78.18143556
1989 80.33790357
1990 77.89804225
1991 79.42326735
1992 78.41387419
1993 77.59372515
1994 76.57413864
1995 72.29740921
1996 73.45592999
1997 75.60113519
1998 75.92660478
1999 75.91914117
2000 74.81223365
2001 72.93723536
2002 72.207474
2003 71.38772218
2004 69.77643168
2005 67.80412805
2006 66.31227171
2007 62.4461605
2008 61.54280052
2009 61.08338442
2010 59.79847346
2011 58.37013449
2012 57.06540899
2013 56.04140674
2014 56.39007196
2015 58.97956424
2016 60.32255339
2017 57.78234706
2018 56.65020945
2019 57.28276201
2020 57.9337355
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Lower 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
Lower middle income
Records
63
Source