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

Merchandise imports from high-income economies (% of total merchandise imports) in Afghanistan was 10.28 as of 2020. Its highest value over the past 56 years was 85.85 in 1983, while its lowest value was 2.50 in 2013.

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.

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Year Value
1964 33.69
1965 38.67
1967 35.84
1968 29.70
1969 33.71
1970 40.36
1971 57.25
1973 50.08
1974 45.79
1975 54.04
1976 50.59
1977 45.44
1978 34.54
1979 24.56
1980 32.16
1981 26.62
1982 83.23
1983 85.85
1984 78.58
1985 75.39
1986 65.38
1987 69.57
1988 73.28
1989 78.37
1990 75.05
1991 80.01
1992 73.19
1993 62.16
1994 60.27
1995 59.17
1996 71.12
1997 57.29
1998 45.04
1999 40.04
2000 10.64
2001 10.58
2002 11.24
2003 11.43
2004 11.76
2005 12.25
2006 13.26
2007 15.71
2008 21.04
2009 22.14
2010 26.44
2011 21.52
2012 14.62
2013 2.50
2014 4.27
2015 13.89
2016 13.75
2017 15.03
2018 11.43
2019 9.19
2020 10.28

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