Low income - Merchandise imports from low- and middle-income economies in East Asia & Pacific (% of total merchandise imports)

Merchandise imports from low- and middle-income economies in East Asia & Pacific (% of total merchandise imports) in Low income was 20.28 as of 2020. Its highest value over the past 60 years was 21.25 in 2016, while its lowest value was 0.83 in 1961.

Definition: Merchandise imports from low- and middle-income economies in East Asia and Pacific are the sum of merchandise imports by the reporting economy from low- and middle-income economies in the East Asia and Pacific region 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 0.97
1961 0.83
1962 1.41
1963 1.35
1964 1.48
1965 2.59
1966 2.83
1967 3.24
1968 2.32
1969 2.57
1970 1.54
1971 2.39
1972 2.60
1973 2.98
1974 3.50
1975 2.96
1976 2.52
1977 2.86
1978 2.98
1979 3.01
1980 2.31
1981 4.53
1982 5.08
1983 4.75
1984 4.67
1985 4.91
1986 5.73
1987 5.80
1988 6.69
1989 6.84
1990 5.98
1991 6.93
1992 7.35
1993 7.75
1994 6.22
1995 6.61
1996 6.69
1997 7.59
1998 7.24
1999 7.07
2000 12.60
2001 11.37
2002 11.13
2003 11.92
2004 12.06
2005 14.17
2006 11.36
2007 11.67
2008 13.79
2009 14.11
2010 14.39
2011 15.43
2012 15.96
2013 15.93
2014 19.10
2015 20.24
2016 21.25
2017 19.92
2018 19.86
2019 21.21
2020 20.28

Aggregation method: Weighted average

Periodicity: Annual

Classification

Topic: Private Sector & Trade Indicators

Sub-Topic: Imports