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

Merchandise imports from high-income economies (% of total merchandise imports) in Costa Rica was 59.21 as of 2020. Its highest value over the past 60 years was 87.81 in 1960, while its lowest value was 40.55 in 2001.

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
1960 87.81
1961 86.56
1962 86.95
1963 87.71
1964 85.39
1965 80.63
1966 77.65
1967 73.85
1968 68.13
1969 70.16
1970 68.88
1971 69.12
1972 69.56
1973 68.08
1974 66.91
1975 65.59
1976 67.56
1977 67.66
1978 69.87
1979 64.91
1980 67.60
1981 64.67
1982 60.59
1983 63.26
1984 66.70
1985 67.92
1986 72.84
1987 71.52
1988 69.58
1989 69.83
1990 73.20
1991 71.51
1992 75.39
1993 75.13
1994 71.08
1995 68.70
1996 69.60
1997 49.94
1998 47.64
1999 42.60
2000 59.10
2001 40.55
2002 63.38
2003 76.51
2004 71.83
2005 70.28
2006 70.69
2007 67.55
2008 66.95
2009 66.00
2010 68.34
2011 68.52
2012 69.80
2013 69.81
2014 66.99
2015 62.10
2016 60.13
2017 60.60
2018 61.49
2019 60.59
2020 59.21

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