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

Merchandise imports from high-income economies (% of total merchandise imports) in Zambia was 31.78 as of 2020. Its highest value over the past 56 years was 83.61 in 1978, while its lowest value was 23.12 in 2014.

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
1964 35.06
1965 42.17
1966 50.39
1967 58.60
1968 57.94
1969 57.68
1970 63.19
1971 64.94
1972 67.46
1973 66.74
1974 74.53
1975 81.41
1976 80.89
1977 82.20
1978 83.61
1979 78.59
1980 75.39
1981 72.72
1982 70.79
1983 70.79
1984 66.26
1985 70.12
1986 72.22
1987 67.77
1988 66.93
1989 64.68
1990 60.48
1991 58.38
1992 49.64
1993 44.59
1994 43.53
1995 51.11
1996 42.92
1997 38.72
1998 43.58
1999 35.55
2000 26.98
2001 24.32
2002 25.01
2003 26.32
2004 37.34
2005 33.39
2006 33.60
2007 29.47
2008 29.84
2009 30.09
2010 27.45
2011 25.69
2012 28.71
2013 25.10
2014 23.12
2015 28.17
2016 31.51
2017 26.30
2018 29.68
2019 36.28
2020 31.78

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