South Asia (IDA & IBRD) | 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
South Asia (IDA & IBRD)
Records
63
Source
South Asia (IDA & IBRD) | Merchandise imports from low- and middle-income economies outside region (% of total merchandise imports)
12.17480844 1960
10.34235022 1961
10.6068212 1962
10.10781671 1963
9.53731059 1964
8.08264034 1965
12.59366989 1966
10.01071998 1967
11.2273114 1968
12.87315626 1969
14.73184662 1970
15.30193618 1971
15.71461058 1972
14.77047799 1973
18.83632404 1974
15.07100598 1975
15.87575597 1976
21.41742544 1977
18.38658471 1978
17.63963409 1979
21.35556764 1980
18.64680494 1981
16.47797684 1982
16.07053595 1983
16.62268762 1984
16.5532022 1985
13.90866929 1986
14.78730514 1987
14.44382473 1988
13.91874057 1989
15.1739165 1990
15.38056117 1991
18.48592679 1992
16.53317522 1993
20.26436188 1994
19.83296471 1995
20.22240048 1996
20.63571283 1997
22.38513322 1998
25.80771512 1999
19.58387202 2000
18.9552829 2001
20.44646644 2002
20.61854182 2003
21.00586248 2004
21.88630077 2005
31.58446197 2006
34.39739267 2007
34.99787656 2008
37.07976689 2009
36.2195733 2010
36.9041964 2011
36.88235528 2012
36.83944728 2013
39.95910549 2014
41.85813335 2015
43.8832933 2016
44.49598566 2017
43.30292023 2018
41.99139626 2019
43.7148329 2020
2021
2022

South Asia (IDA & IBRD) | 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
South Asia (IDA & IBRD)
Records
63
Source