Djibouti - 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 Djibouti was 27.71 as of 2020. Its highest value over the past 39 years was 34.24 in 2018, while its lowest value was 10.82 in 1985.

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
1981 22.43
1982 21.02
1983 20.42
1984 17.39
1985 10.82
1986 17.73
1987 16.37
1988 19.95
1989 21.10
1990 19.07
1991 18.89
1992 19.18
1993 22.63
1994 32.12
1995 32.44
1996 27.80
1997 24.17
1998 25.48
1999 26.53
2000 11.14
2001 11.18
2002 13.40
2003 13.38
2004 13.21
2005 14.47
2006 16.29
2007 22.50
2008 32.24
2009 27.94
2010 21.35
2011 27.81
2012 28.81
2013 27.87
2014 26.90
2015 31.22
2016 28.63
2017 28.38
2018 34.24
2019 26.26
2020 27.71

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