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

Merchandise imports from high-income economies (% of total merchandise imports) in Bahrain was 74.36 as of 2020. Its highest value over the past 47 years was 95.36 in 1981, while its lowest value was 35.01 in 2006.

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
1973 87.80
1974 91.21
1975 92.19
1976 92.69
1977 92.24
1978 93.59
1979 94.42
1980 93.64
1981 95.36
1982 94.34
1983 93.30
1984 93.49
1985 93.49
1986 91.10
1987 92.05
1988 87.81
1989 86.88
1990 86.84
1991 87.53
1992 86.38
1993 82.95
1994 86.28
1995 85.17
1996 86.66
1997 89.38
1998 84.86
1999 87.84
2000 41.99
2001 48.74
2002 51.58
2003 49.40
2004 44.95
2005 41.80
2006 35.01
2007 38.38
2008 40.32
2009 40.34
2010 36.72
2011 74.97
2012 49.68
2013 82.07
2014 79.03
2015 75.14
2016 73.11
2017 67.80
2018 65.37
2019 64.11
2020 74.36

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