Iran - Merchandise exports to high-income economies (% of total merchandise exports)

Merchandise exports to high-income economies (% of total merchandise exports) in Iran was 20.95 as of 2020. Its highest value over the past 56 years was 81.38 in 1986, while its lowest value was 20.52 in 2019.

Definition: Merchandise exports to high-income economies are the sum of merchandise exports from the reporting economy to high-income economies 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.

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Year Value
1964 65.05
1965 69.27
1966 73.43
1967 76.33
1968 75.23
1981 71.04
1982 79.77
1983 77.13
1984 75.54
1985 73.33
1986 81.38
1987 78.30
1988 63.68
1989 71.43
1990 74.30
1991 75.72
1992 70.54
1993 66.20
1994 77.73
1995 73.88
1996 75.11
1997 79.20
1998 78.08
1999 73.36
2000 71.80
2001 68.60
2002 67.20
2003 69.19
2004 66.76
2005 65.53
2006 57.26
2007 54.12
2008 53.02
2009 48.74
2010 48.77
2011 44.72
2012 35.65
2013 26.16
2014 22.56
2015 22.01
2016 35.16
2017 38.35
2018 34.27
2019 20.52
2020 20.95

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. At the regional level most exports from low- and middle-income economies are to high-income economies, but the share of intraregional trade is increasing. Geographic patterns of trade vary widely by country and commodity. Larger shares of exports from oil- and resource-rich economies are to 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: Exports