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

Merchandise imports from high-income economies (% of total merchandise imports) in IDA only was 36.31 as of 2020. Its highest value over the past 60 years was 76.64 in 1960, while its lowest value was 35.74 in 2016.

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 76.64
1961 76.49
1962 74.99
1963 73.65
1964 68.13
1965 67.99
1966 70.11
1967 69.68
1968 68.01
1969 67.82
1970 68.67
1971 69.69
1972 68.31
1973 67.55
1974 65.76
1975 68.55
1976 71.51
1977 70.40
1978 69.92
1979 67.65
1980 67.43
1981 66.00
1982 65.15
1983 64.80
1984 61.88
1985 64.11
1986 65.13
1987 67.25
1988 67.34
1989 65.92
1990 67.52
1991 67.37
1992 65.83
1993 64.17
1994 62.27
1995 60.99
1996 57.62
1997 59.20
1998 59.76
1999 58.00
2000 51.24
2001 52.91
2002 51.30
2003 46.80
2004 44.04
2005 44.49
2006 44.44
2007 43.71
2008 41.63
2009 39.21
2010 41.09
2011 41.11
2012 40.27
2013 38.88
2014 37.23
2015 38.70
2016 35.74
2017 38.51
2018 37.03
2019 36.94
2020 36.31

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