Sub-Saharan Africa (IDA & IBRD countries) | 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
Sub-Saharan Africa (IDA & IBRD countries)
Records
63
Source
Sub-Saharan Africa (IDA & IBRD countries) | Merchandise imports from high-income economies (% of total merchandise imports)
80.35407277 1960
79.07324365 1961
78.92382853 1962
77.97437431 1963
73.31551565 1964
72.99448785 1965
74.57146821 1966
75.46389308 1967
72.9367945 1968
73.09456147 1969
74.60109908 1970
76.58971862 1971
75.26552861 1972
74.55080833 1973
72.4458326 1974
77.15383702 1975
79.75401406 1976
80.01501465 1977
80.85319628 1978
78.64333563 1979
72.9707424 1980
78.0378953 1981
75.38133537 1982
75.30629937 1983
72.29174279 1984
73.14406274 1985
72.51060951 1986
74.18320234 1987
73.83597859 1988
71.84685996 1989
71.02449162 1990
72.50940807 1991
72.07288828 1992
70.58557599 1993
67.98879773 1994
66.90632494 1995
62.82281945 1996
65.51509663 1997
72.07218741 1998
70.61724795 1999
61.44516282 2000
61.33273251 2001
60.12675664 2002
59.0642998 2003
55.51601402 2004
54.65409119 2005
55.06961507 2006
53.90600556 2007
51.88311141 2008
50.15932801 2009
50.66003555 2010
49.67963476 2011
49.26044956 2012
48.75194197 2013
48.01288352 2014
46.59426141 2015
45.49925565 2016
46.61155491 2017
45.35473305 2018
45.07642124 2019
43.09381313 2020
2021
2022

Sub-Saharan Africa (IDA & IBRD countries) | 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
Sub-Saharan Africa (IDA & IBRD countries)
Records
63
Source