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

Merchandise imports from high-income economies (% of total merchandise imports) in Albania was 63.64 as of 2020. Its highest value over the past 39 years was 89.57 in 1997, while its lowest value was 52.58 in 1988.

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
1981 70.55
1982 69.98
1983 75.44
1984 66.00
1985 62.22
1986 55.49
1987 56.80
1988 52.58
1989 57.41
1990 61.03
1991 66.57
1992 77.93
1993 78.26
1994 82.53
1995 81.30
1996 83.59
1997 89.57
1998 89.29
1999 87.18
2000 83.83
2001 83.09
2002 81.24
2003 76.92
2004 75.66
2005 70.19
2006 69.56
2007 68.82
2008 66.56
2009 70.44
2010 71.17
2011 72.51
2012 69.64
2013 68.29
2014 67.58
2015 65.42
2016 67.35
2017 66.13
2018 66.06
2019 65.22
2020 63.64

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