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

Merchandise imports from high-income economies (% of total merchandise imports) in Comoros was 48.01 as of 2020. Its highest value over the past 51 years was 93.87 in 1987, while its lowest value was 2.70 in 1969.

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
1969 2.70
1970 55.95
1971 58.42
1972 54.05
1973 52.03
1974 44.44
1975 57.96
1976 46.92
1977 51.59
1978 56.41
1981 86.81
1982 83.85
1983 85.15
1984 81.77
1985 84.63
1986 86.13
1987 93.87
1988 80.06
1989 83.66
1990 83.44
1991 89.70
1992 76.02
1993 76.37
1994 79.77
1995 77.04
1996 77.11
1997 59.04
1998 64.09
1999 52.35
2000 57.36
2001 68.57
2002 70.93
2003 77.17
2004 71.07
2005 61.13
2006 64.10
2007 55.01
2008 68.08
2009 60.39
2010 61.95
2011 62.45
2012 62.21
2013 52.50
2014 54.91
2015 52.02
2016 55.12
2017 52.57
2018 52.44
2019 51.78
2020 48.01

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