Yemen - 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 Yemen was 41.64 as of 2020. Its highest value over the past 30 years was 49.37 in 2014, while its lowest value was 17.30 in 1990.

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
1990 17.30
1991 24.94
1992 22.24
1993 21.41
1994 18.12
1995 24.79
1996 24.98
1997 24.56
1998 22.85
1999 20.45
2000 22.09
2001 24.17
2002 26.38
2003 25.51
2004 25.16
2005 24.85
2006 28.36
2007 33.23
2008 27.96
2009 32.69
2010 32.90
2011 29.92
2012 34.06
2013 30.95
2014 49.37
2015 36.05
2016 35.13
2017 35.27
2018 34.77
2019 40.18
2020 41.64

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