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

Merchandise exports to high-income economies (% of total merchandise exports) in Bahrain was 72.92 as of 2020. Its highest value over the past 46 years was 89.14 in 2015, while its lowest value was 12.87 in 1990.

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
1974 84.58
1975 84.48
1976 82.51
1977 80.94
1979 68.08
1980 64.21
1981 66.52
1982 63.55
1983 62.31
1984 58.56
1985 58.56
1986 58.56
1987 58.56
1988 20.13
1989 20.13
1990 12.87
1991 67.70
1992 62.34
1993 59.97
1994 30.62
1995 28.16
1996 24.06
1997 28.05
1998 25.92
1999 24.08
2000 77.29
2001 75.52
2002 79.72
2003 78.15
2004 80.74
2005 79.41
2006 77.30
2007 79.13
2008 79.10
2009 77.53
2010 73.85
2011 73.70
2012 73.31
2013 81.35
2014 73.02
2015 89.14
2016 82.93
2017 76.43
2018 70.85
2019 71.58
2020 72.92

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