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

Merchandise imports from high-income economies (% of total merchandise imports) in China was 63.57 as of 2020. Its highest value over the past 59 years was 87.20 in 1991, while its lowest value was 61.84 in 2012.

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
1961 80.80
1978 74.96
1979 78.91
1980 82.16
1981 83.40
1982 79.33
1983 79.78
1984 83.77
1985 84.61
1986 84.26
1987 85.10
1988 81.78
1989 79.86
1990 84.91
1991 87.20
1992 85.02
1993 84.13
1994 85.53
1995 84.39
1996 82.69
1997 82.60
1998 83.94
1999 83.15
2000 78.99
2001 78.49
2002 76.81
2003 74.08
2004 72.54
2005 69.76
2006 68.14
2007 66.88
2008 65.60
2009 66.46
2010 64.79
2011 63.51
2012 61.84
2013 63.10
2014 63.50
2015 65.33
2016 66.12
2017 65.20
2018 63.74
2019 62.88
2020 63.57

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