Mauritius - 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 Mauritius was 49.85 as of 2020. Its highest value over the past 60 years was 61.37 in 2014, while its lowest value was 16.67 in 1964.

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 29.53
1961 19.58
1962 28.02
1963 23.64
1964 16.67
1965 34.67
1966 35.12
1967 37.35
1968 35.47
1969 42.52
1970 31.89
1971 31.36
1972 30.87
1973 31.85
1974 30.76
1975 34.46
1976 33.65
1977 30.94
1978 31.70
1979 30.87
1980 29.80
1981 27.89
1982 25.74
1983 25.85
1984 26.05
1985 24.74
1986 24.29
1987 24.92
1988 22.75
1989 26.19
1990 27.24
1991 31.39
1992 34.05
1993 36.76
1994 32.33
1995 34.22
1996 35.79
1997 36.63
1998 38.68
1999 37.87
2000 44.94
2001 44.41
2002 42.50
2003 44.17
2004 45.01
2005 39.44
2006 42.16
2007 53.22
2008 60.79
2009 57.25
2010 59.65
2011 61.10
2012 60.26
2013 60.61
2014 61.37
2015 61.34
2016 58.44
2017 56.02
2018 58.12
2019 53.65
2020 49.85

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