Arab World - Merchandise exports to low- and middle-income economies outside region (% of total merchandise exports)

Merchandise exports to low- and middle-income economies outside region (% of total merchandise exports) in Arab World was 40.43 as of 2020. Its highest value over the past 60 years was 40.43 in 2020, while its lowest value was 7.23 in 1969.

Definition: Merchandise exports to low- and middle-income economies outside region are the sum of merchandise exports from the reporting economy to 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 exports by the economy. Data are computed only if at least half of the economies in the partner country group had non-missing data.

Source: World Bank staff estimates based data from International Monetary Fund's Direction of Trade database.

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Year Value
1960 9.47
1961 7.52
1962 9.80
1963 8.52
1964 9.83
1965 9.22
1966 9.16
1967 8.25
1968 8.82
1969 7.23
1970 8.72
1971 9.11
1972 9.62
1973 9.35
1974 9.85
1975 10.50
1976 8.78
1977 8.24
1978 8.25
1979 8.28
1980 9.14
1981 12.52
1982 15.38
1983 16.61
1984 15.92
1985 15.24
1986 12.70
1987 13.93
1988 14.52
1989 14.01
1990 14.28
1991 13.78
1992 15.41
1993 15.75
1994 15.58
1995 14.98
1996 18.16
1997 18.82
1998 19.44
1999 19.80
2000 27.76
2001 27.15
2002 27.31
2003 28.71
2004 29.60
2005 30.14
2006 30.11
2007 29.09
2008 29.72
2009 30.25
2010 31.60
2011 34.20
2012 33.76
2013 34.41
2014 35.38
2015 35.84
2016 35.68
2017 37.17
2018 37.24
2019 38.97
2020 40.43

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.

Aggregation method: Weighted average

Periodicity: Annual

Classification

Topic: Private Sector & Trade Indicators

Sub-Topic: Exports