Uganda - 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 Uganda was 36.63 as of 2020. Its highest value over the past 60 years was 48.78 in 2013, while its lowest value was 3.17 in 1976.

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
1960 5.49
1961 6.81
1962 6.41
1963 9.47
1964 10.39
1965 9.88
1966 11.75
1967 7.75
1968 6.40
1969 7.40
1970 6.77
1971 6.79
1972 6.16
1973 5.22
1974 7.59
1975 7.70
1976 3.17
1977 5.62
1978 10.33
1979 13.93
1980 13.83
1981 8.31
1982 9.82
1983 13.74
1984 4.74
1985 6.49
1986 16.48
1987 14.04
1988 18.56
1989 10.88
1990 5.43
1991 14.14
1992 10.42
1993 10.51
1994 9.74
1995 9.80
1996 8.33
1997 9.19
1998 10.68
1999 10.13
2000 15.33
2001 16.78
2002 13.68
2003 20.09
2004 22.22
2005 20.01
2006 21.78
2007 25.73
2008 28.82
2009 31.65
2010 35.29
2011 37.62
2012 45.62
2013 48.78
2014 48.68
2015 47.35
2016 47.12
2017 44.20
2018 41.01
2019 38.99
2020 36.63

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