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

Merchandise imports from high-income economies (% of total merchandise imports) in IDA blend was 41.82 as of 2020. Its highest value over the past 60 years was 86.49 in 1976, while its lowest value was 41.82 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 81.30
1961 79.41
1962 84.61
1963 84.63
1964 82.15
1965 83.12
1966 83.53
1967 84.68
1968 82.14
1969 82.58
1970 84.02
1971 84.49
1972 84.33
1973 84.67
1974 83.46
1975 86.01
1976 86.49
1977 86.43
1978 86.30
1979 84.80
1980 83.46
1981 84.42
1982 82.72
1983 83.02
1984 81.47
1985 81.34
1986 82.27
1987 82.30
1988 82.24
1989 81.06
1990 77.81
1991 77.53
1992 78.34
1993 77.20
1994 71.22
1995 68.33
1996 67.83
1997 70.11
1998 69.66
1999 70.76
2000 66.58
2001 65.16
2002 65.85
2003 64.65
2004 63.08
2005 60.25
2006 59.91
2007 57.23
2008 58.18
2009 56.70
2010 54.87
2011 54.15
2012 54.66
2013 53.46
2014 52.31
2015 48.63
2016 47.89
2017 46.93
2018 47.64
2019 45.38
2020 41.82

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