Bahrain - Merchandise exports to low- and middle-income economies outside region (% of total merchandise exports)

Merchandise exports to low- and middle-income economies outside region (% of total merchandise exports) in Bahrain was 27.08 as of 2020. Its highest value over the past 46 years was 33.06 in 1993, while its lowest value was 2.81 in 1988.

Definition: Merchandise exports to low- and middle-income economies outside region are the sum of merchandise exports from the reporting economy to 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 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 12.63
1975 13.01
1976 11.30
1977 14.17
1979 11.58
1980 11.49
1981 14.07
1982 11.43
1983 13.86
1984 20.24
1985 20.24
1986 20.24
1987 20.24
1988 2.81
1989 2.81
1990 2.84
1991 24.99
1992 30.06
1993 33.06
1994 8.33
1995 9.34
1996 7.22
1997 16.47
1998 12.98
1999 12.31
2000 22.71
2001 24.48
2002 20.28
2003 21.84
2004 19.25
2005 20.59
2006 22.54
2007 20.87
2008 20.90
2009 22.47
2010 26.14
2011 26.30
2012 26.69
2013 18.64
2014 26.98
2015 10.85
2016 17.07
2017 23.57
2018 29.15
2019 28.42
2020 27.08

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: Exports