Malawi - 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 Malawi was 35.91 as of 2020. Its highest value over the past 56 years was 35.91 in 2020, while its lowest value was 0.52 in 1988.

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
1964 6.07
1965 5.12
1966 1.57
1967 4.83
1968 1.14
1969 2.14
1970 2.38
1971 9.78
1972 8.13
1973 7.46
1974 5.67
1975 3.28
1976 2.26
1977 2.38
1978 2.19
1979 2.76
1980 2.21
1981 2.42
1982 1.95
1983 1.78
1984 0.91
1985 1.17
1986 0.82
1988 0.52
1989 1.17
1990 1.71
1991 1.41
1992 2.05
1993 3.07
1994 4.60
1995 9.89
1996 4.04
1997 5.11
1998 3.85
1999 6.34
2000 10.33
2001 12.16
2002 7.49
2003 11.09
2004 13.23
2005 10.28
2006 8.69
2007 12.53
2008 11.40
2009 14.45
2010 22.52
2011 25.50
2012 23.67
2013 22.17
2014 26.92
2015 29.62
2016 30.46
2017 32.37
2018 31.06
2019 33.79
2020 35.91

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