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

Merchandise imports from high-income economies (% of total merchandise imports) in France was 82.17 as of 2020. Its highest value over the past 60 years was 87.47 in 1999, while its lowest value was 59.00 in 1960.

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 59.00
1961 60.67
1962 60.93
1963 62.55
1964 64.12
1965 63.62
1966 64.85
1967 65.74
1968 67.51
1969 67.44
1970 68.99
1971 70.88
1972 71.30
1973 70.46
1974 70.07
1975 71.80
1976 72.16
1977 71.44
1978 72.45
1979 71.94
1980 70.31
1981 74.43
1982 72.42
1983 71.03
1984 70.23
1985 70.73
1986 74.93
1987 75.86
1988 75.47
1989 75.44
1990 76.21
1991 76.77
1992 75.96
1993 76.56
1994 74.75
1995 75.74
1996 75.44
1997 74.57
1998 76.59
1999 87.47
2000 86.63
2001 86.19
2002 86.06
2003 85.76
2004 85.06
2005 83.18
2006 83.46
2007 82.96
2008 81.36
2009 82.23
2010 81.22
2011 80.53
2012 81.19
2013 81.74
2014 81.74
2015 82.61
2016 83.62
2017 82.84
2018 82.08
2019 82.15
2020 82.17

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