Bahrain - Merchandise imports from low- and middle-income economies outside region (% of total merchandise imports)

Merchandise imports from low- and middle-income economies outside region (% of total merchandise imports) in Bahrain was 25.25 as of 2020. Its highest value over the past 47 years was 35.52 in 2019, while its lowest value was 2.12 in 1981.

Definition: 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.

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

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Year Value
1973 11.53
1974 7.64
1975 7.08
1976 6.69
1977 7.13
1978 5.68
1979 4.89
1980 3.07
1981 2.12
1982 2.42
1983 2.78
1984 2.93
1985 2.93
1986 5.71
1987 5.13
1988 6.44
1989 5.69
1990 4.73
1991 5.34
1992 6.26
1993 8.02
1994 12.08
1995 12.17
1996 10.91
1997 8.62
1998 14.78
1999 11.77
2000 13.37
2001 14.96
2002 14.66
2003 13.70
2004 12.89
2005 13.41
2006 10.28
2007 10.69
2008 16.84
2009 16.44
2010 26.48
2011 24.52
2012 26.03
2013 17.19
2014 20.29
2015 24.01
2016 23.89
2017 32.00
2018 34.06
2019 35.52
2020 25.25

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: Imports