South Asia - Merchandise imports from low- and middle-income economies in East Asia & Pacific (% of total merchandise imports)

Merchandise imports from low- and middle-income economies in East Asia & Pacific (% of total merchandise imports) in South Asia was 26.50 as of 2020. Its highest value over the past 60 years was 27.39 in 2016, while its lowest value was 2.39 in 1972.

Definition: Merchandise imports from low- and middle-income economies in East Asia and Pacific are the sum of merchandise imports by the reporting economy from low- and middle-income economies in the East Asia and Pacific region 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.

See also:

Year Value
1960 4.30
1961 3.47
1962 2.86
1963 2.88
1964 3.81
1965 3.41
1966 7.36
1967 4.45
1968 4.25
1969 4.75
1970 3.52
1971 3.30
1972 2.39
1973 2.95
1974 3.13
1975 3.86
1976 2.98
1977 5.12
1978 5.19
1979 5.09
1980 5.00
1981 5.08
1982 4.96
1983 4.89
1984 6.43
1985 5.87
1986 6.31
1987 6.71
1988 6.81
1989 7.03
1990 6.42
1991 6.50
1992 7.46
1993 7.58
1994 9.55
1995 10.02
1996 9.43
1997 10.45
1998 11.27
1999 10.80
2000 10.44
2001 10.93
2002 12.11
2003 13.00
2004 13.38
2005 13.82
2006 16.23
2007 17.14
2008 16.79
2009 18.63
2010 19.07
2011 19.70
2012 18.76
2013 19.53
2014 22.12
2015 25.14
2016 27.39
2017 26.19
2018 24.58
2019 24.87
2020 26.50

Aggregation method: Weighted average

Periodicity: Annual

Classification

Topic: Private Sector & Trade Indicators

Sub-Topic: Imports