World | 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.
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World | Merchandise imports from low- and middle-income economies outside region (% of total merchandise imports)
15.9783028 1960
15.25418672 1961
15.50167308 1962
15.53258467 1963
15.68962508 1964
15.28449292 1965
15.55010126 1966
14.86394587 1967
14.66810154 1968
14.41314756 1969
13.83898685 1970
13.33400927 1971
13.17716129 1972
13.89311873 1973
16.83903076 1974
15.78667662 1975
16.23839942 1976
16.65398759 1977
15.49639334 1978
16.34072147 1979
16.67188993 1980
14.91025305 1981
15.30750457 1982
15.64639239 1983
15.75519983 1984
15.57103937 1985
12.78286776 1986
12.79852002 1987
12.7522106 1988
13.45157066 1989
13.5518435 1990
13.86865609 1991
14.63159903 1992
16.73925939 1993
17.19331992 1994
17.27436873 1995
18.08811468 1996
18.48159811 1997
18.21622647 1998
19.02059686 1999
20.67068599 2000
21.08500927 2001
21.6068834 2002
22.32267002 2003
23.1431924 2004
24.52261005 2005
25.59023251 2006
25.98741849 2007
27.08630227 2008
27.12937583 2009
28.53954978 2010
28.65892796 2011
29.24999238 2012
28.65016049 2013
29.00912808 2014
29.43113148 2015
29.24479459 2016
29.90549453 2017
30.02464488 2018
30.08077053 2019
30.28734474 2020
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World | 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.
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The World Bank
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World
Records
63
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