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

Merchandise imports from high-income economies (% of total merchandise imports) in Sudan was 56.85 as of 2020. Its highest value over the past 60 years was 84.04 in 1981, while its lowest value was 49.06 in 1971.

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.

See also:

Year Value
1960 59.89
1961 63.56
1962 63.29
1963 65.32
1964 67.46
1965 60.80
1966 61.26
1967 62.48
1968 56.21
1969 60.82
1970 57.14
1971 49.06
1972 51.81
1973 59.12
1974 52.48
1975 67.67
1976 69.19
1977 68.82
1978 65.71
1979 68.79
1980 78.74
1981 84.04
1982 77.09
1983 82.07
1984 80.35
1985 82.63
1986 66.97
1987 83.52
1988 79.47
1989 78.98
1990 69.07
1991 64.44
1992 60.29
1993 60.17
1994 55.86
1995 54.53
1996 54.77
1997 56.09
1998 58.39
1999 59.65
2000 61.22
2001 64.04
2002 68.88
2003 64.52
2004 51.71
2005 51.24
2006 70.75
2007 71.06
2008 68.63
2009 65.97
2010 66.40
2011 64.46
2012 59.00
2013 58.35
2014 57.38
2015 56.31
2016 51.18
2017 61.86
2018 55.41
2019 56.85
2020 56.85

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