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

Merchandise imports from high-income economies (% of total merchandise imports) in Bulgaria was 68.04 as of 2020. Its highest value over the past 39 years was 80.32 in 1981, while its lowest value was 47.37 in 1996.

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
1981 80.32
1982 80.28
1983 78.30
1984 67.18
1985 63.67
1986 68.58
1987 62.69
1988 56.14
1989 61.16
1990 68.66
1991 70.18
1992 47.81
1993 55.77
1994 64.74
1995 49.53
1996 47.37
1997 54.42
1998 59.40
1999 63.79
2000 60.91
2001 64.43
2002 65.26
2003 66.64
2004 66.19
2005 72.73
2006 71.87
2007 64.84
2008 62.11
2009 65.44
2010 63.51
2011 63.60
2012 62.13
2013 63.49
2014 65.54
2015 68.25
2016 70.12
2017 67.48
2018 67.61
2019 66.51
2020 68.04

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