South Asia (IDA & IBRD) | Merchandise imports from high-income economies (% of total merchandise imports)
Merchandise imports from high-income economies are the sum of merchandise imports by the reporting economy from high-income economies 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: 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. 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
South Asia (IDA & IBRD)
Records
63
Source
South Asia (IDA & IBRD) | Merchandise imports from high-income economies (% of total merchandise imports)
77.67043218 1960
78.82801274 1961
76.83448989 1962
78.59618241 1963
76.2222434 1964
77.16318406 1965
74.56123053 1966
77.34244251 1967
73.51617204 1968
67.40765512 1969
70.16001241 1970
71.14761035 1971
67.24243196 1972
67.81208919 1973
63.16877483 1974
70.2130529 1975
71.18188552 1976
63.68148557 1977
66.1962855 1978
65.96695903 1979
64.96249013 1980
65.50779823 1981
70.30948215 1982
69.57387714 1983
68.58822113 1984
69.65730855 1985
73.66543715 1986
71.14074513 1987
71.27400967 1988
71.78003939 1989
70.70645994 1990
66.83245813 1991
70.27243342 1992
71.72198555 1993
70.83264348 1994
68.19832667 1995
69.86072158 1996
73.21359634 1997
69.8789423 1998
66.94375875 1999
58.28596981 2000
55.25185737 2001
53.80632142 2002
53.86926795 2003
52.59015695 2004
51.36799819 2005
57.98761704 2006
59.88063601 2007
59.35041734 2008
58.10350489 2009
58.04729784 2010
57.37333919 2011
56.55954037 2012
55.00855414 2013
51.17297802 2014
49.66069982 2015
47.2658325 2016
47.4744051 2017
49.36027291 2018
51.34442069 2019
49.88217299 2020
2021
2022
South Asia (IDA & IBRD) | Merchandise imports from high-income economies (% of total merchandise imports)
Merchandise imports from high-income economies are the sum of merchandise imports by the reporting economy from high-income economies 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: 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. 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
South Asia (IDA & IBRD)
Records
63
Source