United Arab Emirates - 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 United Arab Emirates was 54.07 as of 2020. Its highest value over the past 50 years was 54.07 in 2020, while its lowest value was 8.22 in 1982.

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 14.11
1971 13.09
1972 12.69
1973 13.37
1974 16.19
1975 13.86
1976 12.33
1977 11.29
1978 9.02
1979 9.65
1980 9.40
1981 8.67
1982 8.22
1983 12.20
1984 12.01
1985 13.93
1986 15.58
1987 17.32
1988 18.04
1989 20.66
1990 21.06
1991 22.57
1992 22.10
1993 23.70
1994 24.30
1995 27.37
1996 28.21
1997 27.70
1998 25.55
1999 28.33
2000 26.49
2001 28.11
2002 27.03
2003 33.15
2004 29.37
2005 32.24
2006 30.51
2007 33.20
2008 35.88
2009 30.67
2010 32.72
2011 35.58
2012 46.43
2013 26.56
2014 27.38
2015 27.89
2016 32.27
2017 51.34
2018 49.94
2019 53.81
2020 54.07

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