Dem. Rep. Congo - Merchandise imports from high-income economies (% of total merchandise imports)

Merchandise imports from high-income economies (% of total merchandise imports) in Dem. Rep. Congo was 27.44 as of 2020. Its highest value over the past 57 years was 65.23 in 1973, while its lowest value was 21.43 in 2017.

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
1963 65.11
1964 49.44
1965 50.39
1966 47.45
1967 52.23
1968 57.78
1969 60.63
1970 62.12
1972 61.62
1973 65.23
1974 60.54
1975 64.09
1976 61.53
1977 60.43
1978 51.86
1979 57.16
1980 57.86
1981 59.70
1982 57.38
1983 57.38
1984 57.38
1985 57.38
1986 57.38
1987 57.38
1988 57.38
1989 59.29
1990 54.26
1991 56.00
1992 46.27
1993 44.58
1994 44.65
1995 42.94
1996 40.14
1997 50.49
1998 46.40
1999 42.38
2000 24.56
2001 24.56
2002 24.55
2003 24.44
2004 24.46
2005 24.53
2006 24.56
2007 24.56
2008 24.56
2009 24.56
2010 24.57
2011 24.58
2012 24.60
2013 24.64
2014 24.73
2015 24.91
2016 25.04
2017 21.43
2018 30.17
2019 28.19
2020 27.44

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