Lebanon - 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 Lebanon was 31.19 as of 2020. Its highest value over the past 60 years was 32.62 in 2013, while its lowest value was 4.79 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 4.79
1961 8.07
1963 6.73
1964 6.94
1965 6.76
1966 7.74
1967 9.83
1968 7.79
1969 8.63
1970 8.89
1971 10.07
1972 8.43
1973 8.52
1981 7.53
1982 6.34
1983 6.59
1984 7.78
1985 9.31
1986 11.83
1987 14.28
1988 7.26
1989 8.39
1990 7.03
1991 8.85
1992 6.61
1993 9.77
1994 10.93
1995 15.54
1996 14.80
1997 15.61
1998 17.34
1999 17.67
2000 19.15
2001 23.42
2002 23.30
2003 24.42
2004 25.93
2005 25.49
2006 23.69
2007 26.29
2008 27.46
2009 27.35
2010 29.60
2011 27.56
2012 26.95
2013 32.62
2014 31.24
2015 31.34
2016 31.31
2017 30.83
2018 31.48
2019 31.84
2020 31.19

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