South Africa | 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
Republic of South Africa
Records
63
Source
South Africa | Merchandise exports to high-income economies (% of total merchandise exports)
88.08705613 1960
90.52264808 1961
91.34725949 1962
91.30713476 1963
85.81671548 1964
84.23314904 1965
87.43157848 1966
88.48844026 1967
87.90665902 1968
87.77647291 1969
88.67577733 1970
86.30389578 1971
86.98218857 1972
85.93178751 1973
86.93245461 1974
89.14963915 1975
89.15555833 1976
87.94205496 1977
90.93887804 1978
90.60504997 1979
89.81613485 1980
85.91754863 1981
87.39269192 1982
88.32924389 1983
89.73426017 1984
88.98510902 1985
88.2897559 1986
85.42623899 1987
83.35414589 1988
85.04044079 1989
86.51508182 1990
83.04869795 1991
77.90239816 1992
75.31483436 1993
72.24267874 1994
72.1277524 1995
70.88363173 1996
72.54858498 1997
52.99368947 1998
62.29731183 1999
73.1312878 2000
56.63086783 2001
56.37656689 2002
65.23238871 2003
67.41206771 2004
67.69672095 2005
74.87596369 2006
71.2179962 2007
68.27439582 2008
60.68509922 2009
47.65533336 2010
45.64654256 2011
42.82316461 2012
43.18559583 2013
45.27174103 2014
45.18635953 2015
47.28593152 2016
46.64069819 2017
46.43393676 2018
46.44169738 2019
47.45151597 2020
2021
2022
South Africa | 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
Republic of South Africa
Records
63
Source