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

Merchandise imports from high-income economies (% of total merchandise imports) in Egypt was 54.96 as of 2020. Its highest value over the past 60 years was 80.77 in 1983, while its lowest value was 50.25 in 1967.

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.

See also:

Year Value
1960 63.24
1961 60.84
1962 68.24
1963 73.73
1964 72.49
1965 62.39
1966 64.49
1967 50.25
1968 57.35
1969 54.80
1970 54.02
1971 56.71
1972 57.52
1973 64.14
1974 70.83
1975 74.54
1976 74.46
1977 75.19
1978 77.25
1979 79.93
1980 80.74
1981 77.23
1982 80.00
1983 80.77
1984 79.05
1985 79.04
1986 77.32
1987 79.96
1988 77.36
1989 76.06
1990 75.01
1991 76.91
1992 77.43
1993 77.86
1994 75.09
1995 72.62
1996 73.73
1997 73.33
1998 67.81
1999 70.70
2000 73.10
2001 68.24
2002 59.67
2003 63.43
2004 54.32
2005 51.97
2006 52.56
2007 53.50
2008 60.06
2009 61.58
2010 61.95
2011 59.74
2012 55.87
2013 60.14
2014 60.26
2015 57.73
2016 60.98
2017 57.39
2018 58.60
2019 53.72
2020 54.96

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