IDA blend - 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 IDA blend was 38.26 as of 2020. Its highest value over the past 60 years was 38.26 in 2020, while its lowest value was 5.00 in 1964.

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 6.75
1961 6.96
1962 6.00
1963 6.84
1964 5.00
1965 5.28
1966 7.39
1967 7.35
1968 6.51
1969 6.28
1970 5.89
1971 6.39
1972 6.72
1973 6.68
1974 7.90
1975 6.32
1976 6.38
1977 5.21
1978 5.89
1979 7.24
1980 8.38
1981 6.39
1982 6.84
1983 6.84
1984 9.10
1985 10.55
1986 8.15
1987 8.35
1988 9.03
1989 9.34
1990 10.11
1991 10.93
1992 11.74
1993 11.70
1994 12.91
1995 14.72
1996 12.48
1997 13.74
1998 16.43
1999 16.73
2000 18.39
2001 18.58
2002 19.56
2003 18.63
2004 18.24
2005 20.42
2006 20.20
2007 22.16
2008 24.00
2009 23.00
2010 24.01
2011 23.04
2012 25.39
2013 25.45
2014 29.04
2015 32.78
2016 34.48
2017 35.23
2018 33.28
2019 34.27
2020 38.26

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