Seychelles - 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 Seychelles was 23.95 as of 2020. Its highest value over the past 50 years was 37.05 in 1995, while its lowest value was 11.43 in 2011.

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
1970 21.59
1971 23.40
1972 21.03
1973 35.77
1974 36.18
1975 30.69
1976 28.19
1977 25.17
1978 26.44
1979 25.45
1980 21.25
1981 25.35
1982 30.14
1983 22.95
1984 27.61
1985 22.51
1986 19.77
1987 22.05
1988 16.72
1989 19.26
1990 21.04
1991 24.83
1992 22.91
1993 34.49
1994 35.49
1995 37.05
1996 28.84
1997 25.45
1998 30.44
1999 20.23
2000 21.73
2001 13.93
2002 19.05
2003 19.63
2004 16.90
2005 15.70
2006 19.52
2007 16.33
2008 15.96
2009 20.94
2010 14.06
2011 11.43
2012 14.40
2013 21.70
2014 22.24
2015 24.37
2016 17.75
2017 20.24
2018 26.15
2019 22.22
2020 23.95

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