The Gambia - Merchandise imports from high-income economies (% of total merchandise imports)

Merchandise imports from high-income economies (% of total merchandise imports) in The Gambia was 39.73 as of 2020. Its highest value over the past 57 years was 77.58 in 1987, while its lowest value was 23.38 in 2018.

Definition: Merchandise imports from high-income economies are the sum of merchandise imports by the reporting economy from high-income economies 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
1963 73.58
1964 70.62
1965 74.89
1966 73.58
1967 75.88
1968 71.74
1969 70.21
1970 71.73
1971 74.52
1972 67.98
1973 68.41
1974 58.89
1975 64.39
1976 62.71
1977 69.80
1978 67.44
1979 69.04
1980 64.31
1981 57.18
1982 66.69
1983 68.56
1984 64.44
1985 68.20
1986 69.49
1987 77.58
1988 73.07
1989 67.72
1990 57.70
1991 57.68
1992 60.14
1993 54.74
1994 55.09
1995 55.34
1996 65.84
1997 70.25
1998 57.10
1999 68.42
2000 64.54
2001 72.53
2002 76.36
2003 75.70
2004 60.67
2005 60.53
2006 68.45
2007 69.01
2008 67.13
2009 49.28
2010 47.21
2011 34.05
2012 31.12
2013 32.34
2014 31.61
2015 32.27
2016 40.81
2017 27.84
2018 23.38
2019 29.65
2020 39.73

Development Relevance: Low- and middle-income economies are an increasingly important part of the global trading system. Trade between high-income economies and low- and middle-income economies has grown faster than trade between high-income economies. This increased trade benefits both producers and consumers in developing and high-income economies.

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