Mauritania - Merchandise imports from high-income economies (% of total merchandise imports)

Merchandise imports from high-income economies (% of total merchandise imports) in Mauritania was 64.51 as of 2020. Its highest value over the past 58 years was 96.66 in 1963, while its lowest value was 49.41 in 2006.

Definition: Merchandise imports from high-income economies are the sum of merchandise imports by the reporting economy from high-income economies 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
1962 93.28
1963 96.66
1964 90.80
1966 88.26
1967 83.73
1968 77.08
1969 73.53
1970 59.54
1971 68.10
1972 72.03
1973 79.11
1974 63.50
1981 63.50
1982 63.50
1983 63.50
1984 63.50
1985 63.31
1986 74.86
1987 65.92
1988 74.89
1989 76.05
1990 71.15
1991 68.09
1992 73.83
1993 67.75
1994 66.89
1995 64.36
1996 68.05
1997 65.27
1998 70.07
1999 68.68
2000 66.78
2001 64.36
2002 65.24
2003 68.69
2004 78.89
2005 55.70
2006 49.41
2007 53.82
2008 51.69
2009 56.80
2010 72.33
2011 80.24
2012 77.02
2013 82.00
2014 79.84
2015 67.22
2016 66.74
2017 76.38
2018 67.38
2019 64.23
2020 64.51

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.

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