Togo - 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 Togo was 43.10 as of 2020. Its highest value over the past 58 years was 43.61 in 2016, while its lowest value was 2.48 in 1978.

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
1962 5.54
1963 5.57
1964 4.84
1965 4.45
1966 6.16
1967 6.68
1968 6.71
1969 6.45
1970 5.90
1971 6.37
1972 4.40
1973 4.76
1974 6.92
1975 6.10
1976 3.95
1977 4.15
1978 2.48
1979 2.94
1980 3.28
1981 4.89
1982 6.28
1983 6.24
1984 5.76
1985 4.60
1986 3.52
1987 3.38
1988 6.70
1989 5.53
1990 5.09
1991 5.09
1992 20.57
1993 28.89
1994 23.64
1995 5.85
1996 7.45
1997 7.80
1998 9.01
1999 9.40
2000 11.92
2001 14.60
2002 17.68
2003 16.59
2004 21.96
2005 25.15
2006 22.75
2007 26.34
2008 29.87
2009 30.67
2010 33.81
2011 32.43
2012 30.66
2013 36.58
2014 32.94
2015 37.49
2016 43.61
2017 38.41
2018 39.28
2019 42.81
2020 43.10

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