World | 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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World
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63
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World | Merchandise imports from high-income economies (% of total merchandise imports)
73.32806317 1960
74.21628445 1961
73.94591419 1962
73.80239542 1963
73.54702435 1964
73.93518898 1965
74.35628066 1966
75.15159984 1967
75.15904043 1968
75.21686699 1969
75.23523612 1970
75.9064814 1971
76.19558872 1972
75.39702478 1973
72.60350444 1974
73.87863506 1975
74.07036349 1976
73.71852563 1977
74.98497942 1978
74.12565228 1979
73.81336873 1980
75.74810686 1981
75.42718014 1982
75.10475528 1983
75.18397832 1984
75.5075301 1985
78.54782964 1986
78.62720464 1987
78.83218918 1988
78.22594093 1989
78.1516058 1990
78.23206786 1991
78.00412308 1992
77.0608502 1993
76.10868777 1994
75.68937932 1995
74.8661653 1996
75.38080605 1997
76.01327181 1998
77.54246496 1999
74.98687275 2000
74.41499888 2001
73.80246333 2002
73.01064994 2003
71.61879438 2004
69.55583823 2005
68.30331049 2006
67.82721085 2007
66.43782531 2008
66.05751094 2009
64.27826271 2010
63.9037176 2011
63.32578328 2012
63.37229357 2013
63.29580497 2014
62.96099177 2015
63.34878158 2016
63.06383064 2017
62.97524887 2018
62.82938068 2019
62.30558406 2020
2021
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World | 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
World
Records
63
Source