Jordan - 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 Jordan was 35.05 as of 2020. Its highest value over the past 60 years was 36.91 in 2019, while its lowest value was 4.25 in 1960.

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 4.25
1961 7.81
1962 9.48
1963 7.09
1964 6.55
1965 6.89
1966 8.64
1967 8.04
1968 8.31
1969 7.53
1970 8.56
1971 7.48
1972 9.15
1973 6.77
1974 8.26
1975 4.84
1976 8.91
1977 5.72
1978 6.06
1979 9.23
1980 5.98
1981 6.45
1982 5.88
1983 5.29
1984 6.81
1985 7.30
1986 9.06
1987 8.03
1988 9.36
1989 6.86
1990 11.05
1991 16.18
1992 18.71
1993 16.97
1994 18.00
1995 18.39
1996 15.87
1997 18.14
1998 19.95
1999 16.61
2000 17.63
2001 19.74
2002 20.72
2003 22.85
2004 24.07
2005 23.17
2006 23.81
2007 25.22
2008 28.89
2009 27.55
2010 27.00
2011 26.55
2012 30.69
2013 29.15
2014 32.06
2015 31.01
2016 32.70
2017 32.48
2018 33.96
2019 36.91
2020 35.05

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