Canada - Merchandise imports from high-income economies (% of total merchandise imports)

Merchandise imports from high-income economies (% of total merchandise imports) in Canada was 69.76 as of 2020. Its highest value over the past 60 years was 90.90 in 1986, while its lowest value was 69.76 in 2020.

Definition: 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.

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

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Year Value
1960 84.66
1961 88.22
1962 86.91
1963 86.20
1964 86.55
1965 86.85
1966 85.82
1967 89.62
1968 88.64
1969 89.77
1970 89.00
1971 89.26
1972 90.16
1973 89.37
1974 85.11
1975 86.10
1976 86.08
1977 87.88
1978 88.82
1979 89.18
1980 88.46
1981 87.85
1982 88.03
1983 89.74
1984 89.59
1985 90.28
1986 90.90
1987 90.83
1988 90.09
1989 88.97
1990 89.30
1991 88.14
1992 87.73
1993 86.62
1994 86.57
1995 88.58
1996 88.00
1997 88.17
1998 88.18
1999 87.69
2000 86.33
2001 85.61
2002 84.63
2003 83.14
2004 81.13
2005 79.31
2006 77.65
2007 76.56
2008 75.22
2009 73.68
2010 71.87
2011 71.08
2012 71.15
2013 72.49
2014 73.63
2015 72.78
2016 72.39
2017 71.90
2018 72.12
2019 71.91
2020 69.76

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.

Aggregation method: Weighted average

Periodicity: Annual

Classification

Topic: Private Sector & Trade Indicators

Sub-Topic: Imports