Tanzania - 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 Tanzania was 49.54 as of 2020. Its highest value over the past 60 years was 49.54 in 2020, while its lowest value was 6.69 in 1981.

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 13.78
1961 12.53
1962 14.88
1963 15.62
1964 11.20
1965 13.20
1966 18.31
1967 15.89
1968 15.31
1969 16.24
1970 20.96
1971 29.78
1972 25.52
1973 29.51
1974 25.30
1975 20.57
1976 23.18
1977 18.55
1978 13.41
1979 14.51
1980 14.57
1981 6.69
1982 7.01
1983 14.97
1984 18.76
1985 14.27
1986 12.63
1987 10.95
1988 10.70
1989 9.69
1990 10.02
1991 14.17
1992 19.91
1993 14.33
1994 16.16
1995 15.34
1996 16.00
1997 22.25
1998 22.46
1999 23.30
2000 20.85
2001 18.48
2002 20.73
2003 23.31
2004 24.80
2005 21.43
2006 23.12
2007 27.79
2008 29.67
2009 31.44
2010 31.18
2011 33.38
2012 26.40
2013 38.09
2014 44.06
2015 27.26
2016 48.55
2017 34.23
2018 45.62
2019 44.69
2020 49.54

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