Dem. People's Rep. Korea - Merchandise imports from high-income economies (% of total merchandise imports)

Merchandise imports from high-income economies (% of total merchandise imports) in Dem. People's Rep. Korea was 1.13 as of 2020. Its highest value over the past 39 years was 62.47 in 1983, while its lowest value was 0.44 in 2019.

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
1981 62.25
1982 62.27
1983 62.47
1984 61.36
1985 59.76
1986 56.94
1987 61.64
1988 51.31
1989 54.16
1990 49.62
1991 45.23
1992 45.53
1993 38.43
1994 42.00
1995 42.53
1996 32.45
1997 39.61
1998 47.32
1999 39.98
2000 33.56
2001 50.36
2002 30.40
2003 25.95
2004 24.79
2005 20.38
2006 13.58
2007 8.24
2008 9.49
2009 12.43
2010 5.91
2011 3.99
2012 8.19
2013 3.74
2014 2.74
2015 2.89
2016 1.39
2017 0.63
2018 0.50
2019 0.44
2020 1.13

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