Arab World - 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 Arab World was 44.47 as of 2020. Its highest value over the past 60 years was 44.47 in 2020, while its lowest value was 7.41 in 1982.

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 9.02
1961 8.94
1962 11.44
1963 10.01
1964 11.19
1965 12.79
1966 12.47
1967 12.96
1968 13.30
1969 12.92
1970 13.29
1971 13.64
1972 13.57
1973 12.88
1974 13.97
1975 11.34
1976 10.43
1977 9.44
1978 8.04
1979 8.03
1980 7.78
1981 7.50
1982 7.41
1983 7.88
1984 8.89
1985 9.76
1986 10.20
1987 11.47
1988 12.32
1989 12.14
1990 11.73
1991 12.91
1992 13.36
1993 14.93
1994 15.91
1995 17.73
1996 18.11
1997 18.45
1998 18.80
1999 19.79
2000 20.31
2001 22.00
2002 22.71
2003 24.79
2004 26.39
2005 27.25
2006 26.50
2007 27.95
2008 31.57
2009 30.27
2010 31.48
2011 32.99
2012 37.60
2013 30.49
2014 31.69
2015 32.40
2016 33.02
2017 40.87
2018 40.43
2019 44.01
2020 44.47

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