Iran - 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 Iran was 77.96 as of 2020. Its highest value over the past 56 years was 78.84 in 2019, while its lowest value was 10.49 in 1986.

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.

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Year Value
1964 22.29
1965 16.82
1966 14.99
1967 14.68
1968 18.35
1981 24.22
1982 11.87
1983 14.20
1984 15.21
1985 17.38
1986 10.49
1987 14.33
1988 15.84
1989 11.00
1990 13.39
1991 13.03
1992 15.13
1993 13.38
1994 15.58
1995 21.60
1996 10.89
1997 19.16
1998 14.37
1999 13.70
2000 26.04
2001 29.45
2002 30.26
2003 29.87
2004 31.05
2005 33.08
2006 41.19
2007 44.14
2008 45.55
2009 49.94
2010 49.46
2011 54.80
2012 63.94
2013 73.54
2014 77.05
2015 77.01
2016 64.20
2017 61.25
2018 65.43
2019 78.84
2020 77.96

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