The Gambia - 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 The Gambia was 42.34 as of 2020. Its highest value over the past 57 years was 51.47 in 2019, while its lowest value was 8.80 in 1987.

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
1963 12.48
1964 14.09
1965 14.31
1966 13.97
1967 14.24
1968 18.15
1969 21.41
1970 14.88
1971 13.20
1972 15.79
1973 13.87
1974 18.46
1975 17.98
1976 18.13
1977 14.37
1978 14.26
1979 18.25
1980 21.27
1981 26.11
1982 18.21
1983 20.95
1984 17.19
1985 15.21
1986 14.17
1987 8.80
1988 14.33
1989 11.46
1990 20.53
1991 21.95
1992 23.41
1993 28.07
1994 15.96
1995 17.48
1996 18.22
1997 19.22
1998 31.47
1999 23.15
2000 19.79
2001 16.52
2002 14.86
2003 14.98
2004 23.11
2005 23.21
2006 18.03
2007 19.43
2008 23.73
2009 42.59
2010 46.26
2011 37.25
2012 33.41
2013 37.49
2014 41.63
2015 33.47
2016 36.56
2017 34.70
2018 36.56
2019 51.47
2020 42.34

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