Kazakhstan - 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 Kazakhstan was 22.12 as of 2020. Its highest value over the past 28 years was 53.31 in 1992, while its lowest value was 2.95 in 1997.

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
1992 53.31
1993 12.09
1994 5.03
1995 3.45
1996 3.16
1997 2.95
1998 4.60
1999 6.60
2000 7.03
2001 6.51
2002 8.50
2003 9.79
2004 9.30
2005 10.27
2006 11.39
2007 13.24
2008 14.96
2009 15.81
2010 21.14
2011 16.57
2012 20.34
2013 20.57
2014 22.18
2015 20.74
2016 19.05
2017 20.81
2018 21.48
2019 21.99
2020 22.12

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