China - Merchandise exports to low- and middle-income economies outside region (% of total merchandise exports)

Merchandise exports to low- and middle-income economies outside region (% of total merchandise exports) in China was 18.21 as of 2020. Its highest value over the past 59 years was 19.52 in 2019, while its lowest value was 4.50 in 1991.

Definition: Merchandise exports to low- and middle-income economies outside region are the sum of merchandise exports from the reporting economy to other low- and middle-income economies in other World Bank regions 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
1961 12.47
1978 5.87
1979 5.90
1980 6.98
1981 13.57
1982 17.01
1983 16.73
1984 14.21
1985 10.73
1986 10.73
1987 11.34
1988 8.83
1989 5.03
1990 5.63
1991 4.50
1992 7.58
1993 8.72
1994 6.40
1995 6.87
1996 6.60
1997 6.95
1998 7.75
1999 7.43
2000 7.78
2001 8.26
2002 8.67
2003 9.39
2004 10.07
2005 10.94
2006 12.52
2007 14.85
2008 16.69
2009 16.15
2010 17.09
2011 17.89
2012 17.83
2013 18.12
2014 18.90
2015 18.16
2016 18.51
2017 19.06
2018 19.03
2019 19.52
2020 18.21

Development Relevance: Although global integration has increased, low- and middle-income economies still face trade barriers when accessing other markets.

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