Kyrgyz Republic - Merchandise imports from low- and middle-income economies outside region (% of total merchandise imports)

Merchandise imports from low- and middle-income economies outside region (% of total merchandise imports) in Kyrgyz Republic was 23.38 as of 2020. Its highest value over the past 28 years was 42.15 in 2018, while its lowest value was 4.06 in 1992.

Definition: Merchandise imports from low- and middle-income economies outside region are the sum of merchandise imports by the reporting economy from 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 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
1992 4.06
1993 4.45
1994 7.75
1995 26.57
1996 5.13
1997 7.00
1998 12.17
1999 9.98
2000 10.05
2001 13.99
2002 12.49
2003 12.26
2004 10.41
2005 12.50
2006 16.21
2007 17.27
2008 19.47
2009 22.14
2010 22.91
2011 23.78
2012 24.63
2013 25.74
2014 23.01
2015 27.05
2016 40.15
2017 35.06
2018 42.15
2019 37.94
2020 23.38

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: Imports