Senegal - 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 Senegal was 34.85 as of 2020. Its highest value over the past 60 years was 38.02 in 2018, while its lowest value was 4.12 in 1975.

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 10.09
1961 11.03
1962 8.94
1963 12.58
1964 15.78
1965 16.91
1966 12.13
1967 17.19
1968 20.91
1969 10.66
1970 8.60
1971 10.37
1972 12.25
1973 15.99
1974 21.47
1975 4.12
1976 5.61
1977 16.55
1978 16.84
1979 21.49
1980 22.44
1981 20.60
1982 16.26
1983 16.89
1984 20.99
1985 17.64
1986 13.01
1987 8.61
1988 12.30
1989 10.94
1990 9.48
1991 9.94
1992 12.73
1993 14.20
1994 11.55
1995 17.66
1996 19.31
1997 18.28
1998 16.75
1999 18.94
2000 17.94
2001 19.58
2002 20.97
2003 22.91
2004 24.89
2005 26.04
2006 25.99
2007 30.68
2008 30.82
2009 33.29
2010 31.84
2011 30.85
2012 30.31
2013 29.98
2014 31.53
2015 31.85
2016 35.07
2017 36.69
2018 38.02
2019 34.23
2020 34.85

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