Lower 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
Lower middle income
Records
63
Source
Lower middle income | Merchandise imports from low- and middle-income economies outside region (% of total merchandise imports)
7.98693638 1960
6.9364131 1961
7.70203696 1962
7.25422397 1963
7.02869043 1964
7.16760838 1965
8.51318388 1966
7.53532239 1967
7.26469414 1968
7.46888028 1969
8.119972 1970
8.20582815 1971
7.86092764 1972
8.18662295 1973
9.64538451 1974
8.33867343 1975
7.74451084 1976
8.02954042 1977
7.57155143 1978
8.57830528 1979
9.90853329 1980
8.93155055 1981
9.01697322 1982
9.06513805 1983
9.59830609 1984
10.47023655 1985
9.24135577 1986
9.75735974 1987
9.6649982 1988
10.09188875 1989
9.53742042 1990
8.80723301 1991
9.86459298 1992
10.32288735 1993
10.78913847 1994
11.27818523 1995
11.96244016 1996
12.23310224 1997
13.21411408 1998
14.5353622 1999
13.00062428 2000
13.9168534 2001
14.64761772 2002
15.31891867 2003
15.38639632 2004
16.24236707 2005
19.68880348 2006
21.71526253 2007
22.91410018 2008
23.87893679 2009
23.76041643 2010
25.15449463 2011
25.95592512 2012
25.76177403 2013
27.36006893 2014
27.34014993 2015
27.24401036 2016
27.91004034 2017
27.85368469 2018
27.31689247 2019
26.72331721 2020
2021
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Lower 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
Lower middle income
Records
63
Source