Heavily indebted poor countries (HIPC) - Merchandise exports to low- and middle-income economies outside region (% of total merchandise exports)

Merchandise exports to low- and middle-income economies outside region (% of total merchandise exports) in Heavily indebted poor countries (HIPC) was 26.16 as of 2020. Its highest value over the past 60 years was 30.44 in 2018, while its lowest value was 3.21 in 1968.

Definition: Merchandise exports to low- and middle-income economies outside region are the sum of merchandise exports from the reporting economy to 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 exports 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.

See also:

Year Value
1960 7.16
1961 6.52
1962 6.66
1963 5.21
1964 4.71
1965 4.79
1966 3.94
1967 3.93
1968 3.21
1969 3.62
1970 4.39
1971 6.44
1972 6.50
1973 6.04
1974 5.04
1975 5.30
1976 4.24
1977 4.27
1978 4.06
1979 5.21
1980 4.59
1981 5.44
1982 4.45
1983 4.50
1984 4.14
1985 4.21
1986 4.09
1987 4.01
1988 4.46
1989 5.51
1990 6.67
1991 7.16
1992 6.21
1993 12.33
1994 8.89
1995 9.76
1996 10.05
1997 9.52
1998 8.27
1999 10.13
2000 13.87
2001 13.57
2002 14.45
2003 15.25
2004 19.04
2005 20.42
2006 14.34
2007 13.83
2008 14.49
2009 12.92
2010 13.78
2011 14.89
2012 15.04
2013 17.35
2014 17.05
2015 19.54
2016 19.86
2017 24.76
2018 30.44
2019 27.76
2020 26.16

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: Exports