Dem. Rep. Congo - Merchandise exports to high-income economies (% of total merchandise exports)

Merchandise exports to high-income economies (% of total merchandise exports) in Dem. Rep. Congo was 18.19 as of 2020. Its highest value over the past 57 years was 98.10 in 1999, while its lowest value was 18.19 in 2020.

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
1963 50.87
1964 42.46
1965 38.42
1966 34.75
1967 38.22
1968 27.57
1969 35.00
1970 33.70
1972 40.04
1973 34.52
1974 39.55
1975 42.32
1976 66.96
1977 66.71
1978 41.59
1979 21.08
1980 19.22
1981 21.75
1982 31.67
1983 31.67
1984 31.67
1985 31.67
1986 31.67
1987 31.67
1988 31.67
1989 42.20
1990 45.68
1991 49.08
1992 54.30
1993 47.37
1994 40.93
1995 48.29
1996 42.94
1997 87.34
1998 96.54
1999 98.10
2000 26.46
2001 26.38
2002 26.45
2003 26.50
2004 26.50
2005 26.50
2006 26.50
2007 26.50
2008 26.50
2009 26.50
2010 26.50
2011 26.50
2012 26.50
2013 26.50
2014 26.50
2015 26.50
2016 26.50
2017 29.78
2018 19.93
2019 21.52
2020 18.19

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