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

Merchandise imports from high-income economies (% of total merchandise imports) in Dominica was 86.92 as of 2020. Its highest value over the past 44 years was 90.46 in 2018, while its lowest value was 61.04 in 1981.

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
1976 71.16
1977 67.29
1978 66.85
1979 63.90
1980 68.99
1981 61.04
1982 78.85
1983 80.01
1984 83.56
1985 82.42
1986 81.16
1987 74.79
1988 79.50
1989 84.97
1990 85.26
1991 72.65
1992 77.55
1993 78.62
1994 82.83
1995 83.67
1996 86.72
1997 82.01
1998 86.13
1999 86.36
2000 85.07
2001 84.74
2002 82.58
2003 82.91
2004 83.35
2005 83.30
2006 79.73
2007 80.42
2008 81.00
2009 72.96
2010 69.66
2011 70.92
2012 73.14
2013 71.20
2014 69.02
2015 71.07
2016 69.52
2017 81.59
2018 90.46
2019 89.40
2020 86.92

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