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

Merchandise imports from high-income economies (% of total merchandise imports) in Burundi was 41.00 as of 2020. Its highest value over the past 51 years was 57.23 in 1996, while its lowest value was 34.37 in 2016.

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
1969 51.15
1970 52.02
1971 49.16
1972 50.48
1973 48.72
1974 44.06
1975 49.26
1976 55.20
1977 53.16
1978 49.18
1979 47.99
1980 38.92
1981 37.96
1982 47.84
1983 44.38
1984 45.11
1985 47.45
1986 49.47
1987 48.87
1988 47.24
1989 47.05
1990 42.84
1991 41.07
1992 45.63
1993 46.19
1994 43.77
1995 48.54
1996 57.23
1997 47.98
1998 44.41
1999 41.17
2000 55.19
2001 49.97
2002 37.60
2003 40.02
2004 44.08
2005 50.07
2006 54.05
2007 51.93
2008 56.26
2009 46.98
2010 48.83
2011 47.01
2012 43.08
2013 45.45
2014 42.31
2015 40.70
2016 34.37
2017 39.25
2018 49.48
2019 43.47
2020 41.00

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