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

Merchandise exports to high-income economies (% of total merchandise exports) in Burundi was 71.58 as of 2020. Its highest value over the past 51 years was 90.08 in 1975, while its lowest value was 26.24 in 1996.

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
1969 81.20
1970 60.08
1971 85.95
1972 87.31
1973 81.21
1974 80.28
1975 90.08
1976 79.60
1977 67.76
1978 69.38
1979 72.62
1980 66.67
1981 69.08
1982 72.26
1983 73.03
1984 56.52
1985 74.07
1986 61.79
1987 64.69
1988 83.76
1989 58.31
1990 55.68
1991 61.24
1992 43.11
1993 58.79
1994 50.70
1995 48.09
1996 26.24
1997 63.79
1998 52.29
1999 69.09
2000 65.10
2001 79.94
2002 52.61
2003 60.69
2004 53.61
2005 58.38
2006 55.83
2007 57.48
2008 56.87
2009 56.56
2010 82.17
2011 74.67
2012 60.76
2013 77.86
2014 57.31
2015 50.90
2016 51.90
2017 54.93
2018 59.91
2019 62.30
2020 71.58

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