Brazil - 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 Brazil was 33.00 as of 2020. Its highest value over the past 60 years was 33.00 in 2020, while its lowest value was 0.42 in 1960.

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 0.42
1961 0.50
1962 0.72
1963 1.65
1964 3.14
1965 3.32
1966 3.06
1967 4.08
1968 5.38
1969 6.13
1970 5.73
1971 5.82
1972 5.96
1973 6.86
1974 11.08
1975 12.23
1976 15.22
1977 16.47
1978 16.28
1979 22.72
1980 25.31
1981 20.37
1982 21.14
1983 24.10
1984 28.33
1985 31.64
1986 16.62
1987 19.01
1988 15.55
1989 14.41
1990 13.65
1991 9.94
1992 8.07
1993 7.67
1994 8.90
1995 8.75
1996 10.33
1997 9.69
1998 8.30
1999 9.84
2000 12.15
2001 12.50
2002 14.78
2003 17.49
2004 22.24
2005 23.29
2006 25.00
2007 28.52
2008 29.85
2009 26.94
2010 28.63
2011 30.67
2012 30.30
2013 31.20
2014 32.84
2015 32.02
2016 28.17
2017 31.13
2018 32.17
2019 32.67
2020 33.00

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