Afghanistan - Merchandise exports to high-income economies (% of total merchandise exports)

Merchandise exports to high-income economies (% of total merchandise exports) in Afghanistan was 6.71 as of 2020. Its highest value over the past 60 years was 85.16 in 1992, while its lowest value was 1.07 in 2012.

Definition: Merchandise exports to high-income economies are the sum of merchandise exports from the reporting economy to high-income economies according to the World Bank classification of economies. Data are expressed as a percentage of total merchandise exports 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 46.49
1961 45.51
1962 35.31
1963 35.38
1964 30.32
1965 41.44
1966 31.28
1967 33.68
1968 18.74
1969 29.08
1970 33.71
1971 42.71
1972 35.24
1973 29.77
1974 24.16
1975 29.40
1976 43.17
1977 35.59
1978 27.07
1979 18.15
1980 19.47
1981 17.04
1982 57.71
1983 74.37
1984 63.51
1985 56.99
1986 48.23
1987 50.34
1988 50.87
1989 55.87
1990 60.96
1991 80.07
1992 85.16
1993 5.37
1994 34.56
1995 17.17
1996 39.37
1997 55.88
1998 54.99
1999 36.18
2000 5.53
2001 7.12
2002 7.05
2003 4.17
2004 5.13
2005 4.51
2006 4.97
2007 5.24
2008 6.99
2009 8.18
2010 8.47
2011 7.10
2012 1.07
2013 2.58
2014 4.23
2015 7.64
2016 4.28
2017 4.17
2018 4.15
2019 6.54
2020 6.71

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. At the regional level most exports from low- and middle-income economies are to high-income economies, but the share of intraregional trade is increasing. Geographic patterns of trade vary widely by country and commodity. Larger shares of exports from oil- and resource-rich economies are to 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: Exports