Italy - 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 Italy was 17.12 as of 2020. Its highest value over the past 60 years was 23.07 in 1981, while its lowest value was 9.84 in 1988.

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
1960 19.15
1961 18.45
1962 15.77
1963 16.41
1964 15.22
1965 15.16
1966 15.29
1967 15.77
1968 15.44
1969 14.22
1970 13.88
1971 13.42
1972 13.19
1973 13.13
1974 17.31
1975 19.97
1976 17.33
1977 17.56
1978 17.05
1979 15.86
1980 18.40
1981 23.07
1982 18.35
1983 16.81
1984 15.66
1985 14.24
1986 12.08
1987 10.24
1988 9.84
1989 10.15
1990 9.96
1991 10.82
1992 11.36
1993 14.40
1994 13.49
1995 13.76
1996 14.61
1997 15.35
1998 14.32
1999 12.16
2000 13.13
2001 14.08
2002 14.44
2003 14.58
2004 15.39
2005 16.35
2006 17.03
2007 17.96
2008 19.67
2009 20.49
2010 21.35
2011 21.07
2012 21.43
2013 22.17
2014 20.97
2015 19.55
2016 19.02
2017 19.38
2018 18.59
2019 17.70
2020 17.12

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