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

Merchandise imports from high-income economies (% of total merchandise imports) in El Salvador was 42.95 as of 2020. Its highest value over the past 60 years was 81.34 in 1960, while its lowest value was 38.10 in 1980.

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
1960 81.34
1961 78.87
1962 76.08
1963 70.43
1964 68.10
1965 68.32
1966 65.74
1967 63.98
1968 56.42
1969 61.43
1970 64.62
1971 64.04
1972 62.77
1973 63.77
1974 61.31
1975 61.50
1976 63.18
1977 63.00
1978 63.40
1979 57.46
1980 38.10
1981 49.68
1982 49.14
1983 53.08
1984 53.75
1985 56.26
1986 59.62
1987 58.88
1988 57.96
1989 62.13
1990 62.86
1991 59.75
1992 63.93
1993 66.25
1994 64.51
1995 65.75
1996 64.87
1997 60.51
1998 60.88
1999 58.17
2000 65.87
2001 66.08
2002 65.63
2003 65.71
2004 63.25
2005 57.15
2006 56.95
2007 55.11
2008 53.16
2009 54.01
2010 54.12
2011 55.61
2012 53.62
2013 55.96
2014 57.23
2015 55.65
2016 53.45
2017 54.15
2018 48.65
2019 45.44
2020 42.95

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