El Salvador - Merchandise exports to high-income economies (% of total merchandise exports)

Merchandise exports to high-income economies (% of total merchandise exports) in El Salvador was 47.86 as of 2020. Its highest value over the past 60 years was 87.32 in 1960, while its lowest value was 40.61 in 1999.

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
1960 87.32
1961 86.16
1962 85.55
1963 78.83
1964 77.54
1965 73.30
1966 68.19
1967 60.44
1968 54.23
1969 60.72
1970 64.45
1971 58.66
1972 57.75
1973 63.28
1974 62.29
1975 67.99
1976 69.25
1977 74.70
1978 69.12
1979 75.72
1980 69.66
1981 50.45
1982 73.92
1983 74.21
1984 71.05
1985 82.14
1986 84.39
1987 75.83
1988 75.54
1989 64.22
1990 63.62
1991 59.87
1992 47.44
1993 46.65
1994 64.48
1995 48.83
1996 45.62
1997 53.25
1998 43.72
1999 40.61
2000 72.51
2001 70.65
2002 71.86
2003 72.26
2004 71.35
2005 61.25
2006 62.26
2007 60.38
2008 60.01
2009 57.64
2010 58.10
2011 58.44
2012 57.11
2013 56.36
2014 56.41
2015 55.35
2016 55.78
2017 53.59
2018 51.03
2019 49.92
2020 47.86

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