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

Merchandise exports to high-income economies (% of total merchandise exports) in Dem. People's Rep. Korea was 3.97 as of 2020. Its highest value over the past 39 years was 62.04 in 1991, while its lowest value was 1.03 in 2017.

Definition: Merchandise exports to high-income economies are the sum of merchandise exports from the reporting economy to high-income economies 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
1981 54.98
1982 51.34
1983 50.98
1984 53.89
1985 47.01
1986 45.72
1987 55.47
1988 53.69
1989 52.64
1990 47.46
1991 62.04
1992 57.68
1993 50.12
1994 58.03
1995 61.27
1996 43.53
1997 50.93
1998 50.58
1999 50.99
2000 41.25
2001 36.75
2002 42.36
2003 27.78
2004 25.79
2005 22.45
2006 21.11
2007 5.26
2008 14.79
2009 9.56
2010 8.66
2011 12.14
2012 4.00
2013 6.23
2014 2.91
2015 2.69
2016 1.17
2017 1.03
2018 4.03
2019 2.70
2020 3.97

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. At the regional level most exports from low- and middle-income economies are to high-income economies, but the share of intraregional trade is increasing. Geographic patterns of trade vary widely by country and commodity. Larger shares of exports from oil- and resource-rich economies are to 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: Exports