Netherlands - 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 Netherlands was 33.71 as of 2020. Its highest value over the past 60 years was 34.13 in 2017, while its lowest value was 8.06 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
1960 14.44
1961 13.46
1962 13.22
1963 12.76
1964 13.67
1965 13.18
1966 11.66
1967 12.00
1968 11.59
1969 11.49
1970 11.67
1971 11.21
1972 10.79
1973 10.88
1974 19.02
1975 13.41
1976 14.06
1977 14.96
1978 13.43
1979 12.33
1980 11.90
1981 11.01
1982 13.70
1983 14.69
1984 15.79
1985 13.49
1986 9.21
1987 9.17
1988 9.10
1989 9.26
1990 9.61
1991 8.91
1992 8.06
1993 12.33
1994 11.92
1995 11.46
1996 12.65
1997 12.85
1998 13.87
1999 14.84
2000 17.75
2001 18.98
2002 19.42
2003 21.00
2004 22.47
2005 26.11
2006 27.09
2007 28.60
2008 29.70
2009 30.08
2010 32.30
2011 32.53
2012 33.78
2013 32.77
2014 32.50
2015 31.67
2016 32.92
2017 34.13
2018 33.34
2019 33.55
2020 33.71

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