Samoa - Merchandise exports to high-income economies (% of total merchandise exports)

Merchandise exports to high-income economies (% of total merchandise exports) in Samoa was 31.33 as of 2020. Its highest value over the past 56 years was 99.13 in 2000, while its lowest value was 31.33 in 2020.

Definition: Merchandise exports to high-income economies are the sum of merchandise exports from the reporting economy to high-income economies 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 97.06
1965 98.18
1966 95.65
1967 90.91
1968 90.74
1969 95.52
1970 95.56
1971 96.83
1972 94.12
1973 83.42
1974 91.86
1975 92.91
1976 93.00
1977 91.44
1978 84.57
1979 85.03
1980 85.13
1981 69.57
1982 75.36
1983 88.47
1984 80.78
1985 95.82
1986 83.69
1987 90.04
1988 75.52
1989 74.45
1990 76.34
1991 75.22
1992 76.30
1993 76.30
1994 58.19
1995 94.67
1996 93.89
1997 90.58
1998 85.79
1999 84.12
2000 99.13
2001 98.68
2002 80.70
2003 89.85
2004 85.56
2005 85.07
2006 83.51
2007 94.11
2008 94.27
2009 88.66
2010 92.42
2011 86.67
2012 85.42
2013 74.74
2014 82.66
2015 67.57
2016 52.55
2017 58.68
2018 52.85
2019 51.24
2020 31.33

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. At the regional level most exports from low- and middle-income economies are to high-income economies, but the share of intraregional trade is increasing. Geographic patterns of trade vary widely by country and commodity. Larger shares of exports from oil- and resource-rich economies are to 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: Exports