Madagascar - 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 Madagascar was 53.32 as of 2020. Its highest value over the past 60 years was 53.32 in 2020, while its lowest value was 1.34 in 1974.

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 9.74
1961 5.72
1962 6.25
1963 4.55
1964 4.73
1965 11.84
1966 5.82
1967 2.55
1968 2.42
1969 2.03
1970 1.93
1971 2.32
1972 2.19
1973 2.13
1974 1.34
1975 2.14
1976 11.75
1977 16.51
1978 15.31
1979 18.31
1980 7.92
1981 5.12
1982 5.93
1983 7.95
1984 6.77
1985 5.10
1986 7.92
1987 5.72
1988 8.10
1989 12.47
1990 8.29
1991 17.73
1992 9.40
1993 18.25
1994 16.97
1995 21.88
1996 23.68
1997 23.59
1998 23.79
1999 22.07
2000 33.00
2001 21.09
2002 19.51
2003 38.50
2004 27.73
2005 29.10
2006 15.57
2007 32.96
2008 35.01
2009 46.73
2010 25.02
2011 28.71
2012 32.45
2013 34.23
2014 36.68
2015 39.73
2016 43.46
2017 46.83
2018 45.43
2019 44.85
2020 53.32

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