Upper middle income | 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.
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The World Bank
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Upper middle income
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63
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Upper middle income | Merchandise imports from high-income economies (% of total merchandise imports)
84.18700873 1960
85.25573853 1961
84.62437615 1962
84.19497171 1963
82.71497691 1964
81.37788406 1965
82.70599963 1966
83.12064007 1967
82.81972941 1968
82.37829217 1969
83.02908353 1970
83.2135549 1971
82.7987178 1972
81.28783696 1973
80.47487045 1974
81.11257693 1975
79.72041473 1976
78.82883796 1977
79.13152049 1978
77.84401674 1979
76.88676105 1980
79.63935982 1981
77.69820178 1982
76.00510525 1983
74.92822412 1984
76.428504 1985
79.51438174 1986
77.94849832 1987
78.59813567 1988
78.1831248 1989
80.65757851 1990
83.363607 1991
81.22682561 1992
81.20448344 1993
79.68125491 1994
77.43529783 1995
76.63239387 1996
77.71976217 1997
78.61558524 1998
79.43035236 1999
76.75325817 2000
75.99142316 2001
74.71631518 2002
72.38842183 2003
70.40571614 2004
68.23882036 2005
66.4831476 2006
64.50678839 2007
62.752785 2008
62.97567077 2009
61.92919578 2010
60.09191822 2011
59.97435709 2012
60.56421726 2013
60.57997403 2014
61.02973111 2015
61.44752842 2016
60.87115872 2017
60.15083482 2018
59.20217445 2019
59.06290174 2020
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Upper middle income | 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
Upper middle income
Records
63
Source