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

Merchandise imports from high-income economies (% of total merchandise imports) in IDA total was 38.03 as of 2020. Its highest value over the past 60 years was 78.99 in 1962, while its lowest value was 38.03 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.

See also:

Year Value
1960 78.57
1961 77.71
1962 78.99
1963 78.01
1964 73.86
1965 74.20
1966 75.02
1967 75.19
1968 72.82
1969 72.87
1970 74.28
1971 75.61
1972 74.04
1973 73.23
1974 71.91
1975 75.87
1976 78.52
1977 78.13
1978 78.42
1979 75.65
1980 72.38
1981 75.58
1982 73.96
1983 73.47
1984 70.25
1985 71.43
1986 71.95
1987 73.26
1988 73.43
1989 72.08
1990 71.19
1991 71.37
1992 70.77
1993 69.08
1994 65.47
1995 63.72
1996 61.75
1997 63.60
1998 63.25
1999 62.44
2000 55.98
2001 56.73
2002 55.98
2003 52.66
2004 49.91
2005 50.33
2006 50.20
2007 48.01
2008 46.94
2009 44.69
2010 45.47
2011 46.02
2012 45.47
2013 44.09
2014 42.62
2015 42.03
2016 39.67
2017 41.15
2018 40.47
2019 39.62
2020 38.03

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