Burundi - 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 Burundi was 34.69 as of 2020. Its highest value over the past 51 years was 35.76 in 2016, while its lowest value was 4.70 in 1997.

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
1969 7.83
1970 8.07
1971 7.02
1972 9.58
1973 8.65
1974 11.46
1975 11.51
1976 14.99
1977 14.85
1978 12.25
1979 12.63
1980 23.91
1981 23.16
1982 18.26
1983 18.17
1984 23.75
1985 19.66
1986 14.34
1987 16.72
1988 15.37
1989 14.54
1990 16.97
1991 17.11
1992 8.93
1993 12.44
1994 13.23
1995 7.16
1996 6.25
1997 4.70
1998 6.96
1999 6.69
2000 9.54
2001 12.49
2002 11.97
2003 9.96
2004 9.69
2005 8.90
2006 15.64
2007 9.92
2008 10.82
2009 14.77
2010 15.68
2011 14.52
2012 18.34
2013 25.58
2014 31.60
2015 32.40
2016 35.76
2017 34.62
2018 27.30
2019 31.86
2020 34.69

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