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

Merchandise exports to high-income economies (% of total merchandise exports) in Sierra Leone was 8.11 as of 2020. Its highest value over the past 60 years was 99.44 in 1963, while its lowest value was 8.11 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
1960 98.62
1961 99.01
1962 98.71
1963 99.44
1964 90.62
1965 90.50
1966 91.65
1967 92.12
1968 95.07
1969 93.51
1970 89.97
1971 92.14
1972 91.21
1973 95.39
1974 94.98
1975 92.13
1976 89.87
1977 92.62
1978 96.72
1979 85.74
1980 69.81
1981 69.81
1982 88.22
1983 73.15
1984 40.30
1985 48.65
1986 67.73
1987 60.27
1988 80.78
1989 71.71
1990 83.47
1991 67.92
1992 58.25
1993 71.45
1994 49.37
1995 29.61
1996 18.63
1997 26.51
1998 48.46
1999 66.90
2000 78.68
2001 47.90
2002 53.14
2003 78.99
2004 49.59
2005 45.31
2006 73.87
2007 63.34
2008 62.35
2009 59.16
2010 64.86
2011 65.43
2012 27.76
2013 11.40
2014 9.71
2015 80.18
2016 54.28
2017 42.11
2018 45.31
2019 30.53
2020 8.11

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