Central Europe and the Baltics - Merchandise imports from high-income economies (% of total merchandise imports)

Merchandise imports from high-income economies (% of total merchandise imports) in Central Europe and the Baltics was 79.09 as of 2020. Its highest value over the past 60 years was 83.84 in 1999, while its lowest value was 33.45 in 1963.

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 42.00
1961 43.94
1962 34.82
1963 33.45
1964 34.45
1965 39.11
1966 43.66
1967 48.60
1968 39.72
1969 38.93
1970 34.54
1971 35.89
1972 38.88
1973 45.18
1974 50.04
1975 46.92
1976 47.26
1977 44.06
1978 44.31
1979 41.14
1980 39.11
1981 41.30
1982 39.10
1983 38.02
1984 37.62
1985 37.60
1986 38.86
1987 40.89
1988 42.57
1989 46.69
1990 57.94
1991 66.33
1992 66.76
1993 73.95
1994 76.86
1995 77.70
1996 77.77
1997 79.68
1998 83.62
1999 83.84
2000 80.87
2001 80.48
2002 80.28
2003 79.64
2004 81.54
2005 80.64
2006 79.71
2007 79.97
2008 77.80
2009 79.45
2010 77.66
2011 76.77
2012 76.56
2013 77.66
2014 78.93
2015 80.23
2016 81.39
2017 80.33
2018 79.05
2019 78.99
2020 79.09

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