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

Merchandise imports from high-income economies (% of total merchandise imports) in Cameroon was 42.13 as of 2020. Its highest value over the past 60 years was 86.93 in 1968, while its lowest value was 37.41 in 2014.

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
1960 79.55
1961 78.17
1962 71.61
1963 79.80
1964 81.72
1965 82.91
1966 85.28
1967 85.93
1968 86.93
1969 84.89
1970 85.33
1971 85.22
1972 86.02
1973 83.13
1974 82.27
1975 84.36
1976 83.88
1977 83.32
1978 80.94
1979 83.99
1980 79.02
1981 81.79
1982 85.63
1983 83.10
1984 84.83
1985 84.49
1986 86.83
1987 84.78
1988 79.75
1989 79.29
1990 78.55
1991 79.92
1992 74.73
1993 77.26
1994 71.70
1995 58.91
1996 64.41
1997 63.41
1998 65.94
1999 62.65
2000 58.49
2001 64.14
2002 67.05
2003 64.87
2004 61.02
2005 46.69
2006 44.31
2007 62.85
2008 61.38
2009 56.44
2010 45.20
2011 39.02
2012 43.29
2013 42.57
2014 37.41
2015 39.55
2016 43.84
2017 43.99
2018 46.81
2019 41.65
2020 42.13

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