Egypt - 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 Egypt was 42.13 as of 2020. Its highest value over the past 60 years was 43.84 in 2019, while its lowest value was 5.80 in 1983.

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
1960 10.89
1961 12.11
1962 10.34
1963 8.92
1964 7.67
1965 13.03
1966 14.93
1967 14.57
1968 11.65
1969 13.84
1970 17.30
1971 13.06
1972 13.64
1973 12.98
1974 7.61
1975 7.46
1976 8.00
1977 7.27
1978 7.73
1979 8.67
1980 6.97
1981 6.59
1982 7.44
1983 5.80
1984 7.99
1985 6.82
1986 8.18
1987 7.24
1988 9.57
1989 9.39
1990 10.60
1991 10.62
1992 13.58
1993 14.13
1994 16.04
1995 18.34
1996 18.75
1997 20.52
1998 21.33
1999 20.19
2000 18.52
2001 21.73
2002 25.99
2003 29.40
2004 25.68
2005 27.76
2006 25.39
2007 25.74
2008 33.81
2009 33.95
2010 34.29
2011 37.59
2012 39.84
2013 37.33
2014 37.46
2015 39.18
2016 28.03
2017 29.72
2018 32.27
2019 43.84
2020 42.13

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