Central African Republic - Merchandise imports from high-income economies (% of total merchandise imports)

Merchandise imports from high-income economies (% of total merchandise imports) in Central African Republic was 52.15 as of 2020. Its highest value over the past 60 years was 100.00 in 1961, while its lowest value was 27.46 in 2005.

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 86.73
1961 100.00
1963 87.12
1964 86.78
1965 87.13
1966 86.78
1967 88.38
1968 91.24
1969 84.16
1970 85.53
1971 89.77
1972 87.54
1973 91.90
1974 90.85
1975 82.08
1976 78.99
1977 86.15
1978 88.74
1979 90.79
1980 87.68
1981 78.15
1982 81.92
1983 88.23
1984 87.19
1985 84.27
1986 84.27
1987 79.51
1988 76.85
1989 73.49
1990 68.88
1991 70.33
1992 66.63
1993 73.24
1994 58.64
1995 73.45
1996 47.25
1997 59.54
1998 57.85
1999 57.92
2000 63.85
2001 65.44
2002 64.15
2003 57.47
2004 34.15
2005 27.46
2006 51.23
2007 48.39
2008 60.37
2009 62.21
2010 54.88
2011 67.49
2012 54.17
2013 60.87
2014 62.14
2015 55.29
2016 68.55
2017 64.57
2018 49.64
2019 45.91
2020 52.15

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