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

Merchandise exports to high-income economies (% of total merchandise exports) in Cameroon was 52.60 as of 2020. Its highest value over the past 60 years was 92.69 in 1963, while its lowest value was 51.83 in 2018.

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
1960 90.61
1961 89.89
1962 89.78
1963 92.69
1964 90.40
1965 91.22
1966 86.59
1967 88.17
1968 83.97
1969 84.52
1970 86.15
1971 83.07
1972 85.13
1973 85.80
1974 83.68
1975 73.47
1976 77.77
1977 82.89
1978 84.39
1979 87.91
1980 89.92
1981 89.22
1982 89.53
1983 84.85
1984 86.43
1985 85.02
1986 76.60
1987 76.67
1988 84.60
1989 60.19
1990 86.87
1991 86.07
1992 81.90
1993 84.29
1994 81.98
1995 82.95
1996 82.32
1997 80.45
1998 81.72
1999 80.88
2000 79.52
2001 80.58
2002 79.89
2003 77.18
2004 76.69
2005 77.91
2006 84.03
2007 71.99
2008 61.67
2009 66.02
2010 71.61
2011 60.13
2012 60.87
2013 70.64
2014 57.31
2015 52.04
2016 59.15
2017 57.83
2018 51.83
2019 53.19
2020 52.60

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