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

Merchandise imports from high-income economies (% of total merchandise imports) in Bangladesh was 33.30 as of 2020. Its highest value over the past 47 years was 72.43 in 1983, while its lowest value was 33.06 in 2018.

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
1973 65.64
1974 66.92
1975 63.79
1976 61.22
1977 61.48
1978 62.74
1979 66.62
1980 69.45
1981 66.85
1982 65.11
1983 72.43
1984 66.20
1985 68.58
1986 66.00
1987 65.21
1988 62.67
1989 60.03
1990 68.24
1991 61.41
1992 58.53
1993 58.62
1994 54.88
1995 56.14
1996 50.24
1997 52.47
1998 48.65
1999 52.82
2000 54.08
2001 52.76
2002 51.71
2003 49.27
2004 49.19
2005 49.42
2006 49.82
2007 48.29
2008 47.90
2009 43.70
2010 40.75
2011 36.96
2012 37.35
2013 35.81
2014 35.79
2015 35.22
2016 34.75
2017 34.42
2018 33.06
2019 35.21
2020 33.30

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