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

Merchandise imports from high-income economies (% of total merchandise imports) in Arab World was 52.02 as of 2020. Its highest value over the past 60 years was 85.46 in 1981, while its lowest value was 52.02 in 2020.

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
1960 77.70
1961 76.08
1962 72.13
1963 72.21
1964 73.05
1965 67.71
1966 72.77
1967 70.61
1968 70.78
1969 71.04
1970 70.28
1971 70.35
1972 71.61
1973 74.12
1974 73.68
1975 79.05
1976 81.38
1977 81.38
1978 83.27
1979 84.30
1980 84.89
1981 85.46
1982 85.29
1983 84.76
1984 82.57
1985 81.55
1986 80.71
1987 79.24
1988 78.91
1989 78.78
1990 77.58
1991 77.86
1992 78.05
1993 77.84
1994 76.10
1995 74.30
1996 73.80
1997 75.74
1998 75.87
1999 75.26
2000 73.07
2001 72.12
2002 71.11
2003 68.32
2004 60.98
2005 62.20
2006 61.73
2007 59.33
2008 57.31
2009 54.33
2010 53.06
2011 56.52
2012 56.83
2013 54.12
2014 53.12
2015 52.79
2016 52.93
2017 55.06
2018 55.33
2019 52.70
2020 52.02

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