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

Merchandise imports from high-income economies (% of total merchandise imports) in Ethiopia was 44.79 as of 2020. Its highest value over the past 60 years was 85.68 in 1968, while its lowest value was 39.57 in 2015.

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 80.07
1961 78.92
1962 80.80
1963 80.14
1964 81.13
1965 83.22
1966 83.49
1967 82.28
1968 85.68
1969 82.03
1970 80.87
1971 80.78
1972 79.55
1973 76.96
1974 76.95
1975 80.11
1976 80.65
1977 82.66
1978 85.61
1979 83.00
1980 66.65
1981 68.98
1982 61.77
1983 68.61
1984 67.11
1985 73.62
1986 73.62
1987 75.42
1988 77.58
1989 68.27
1990 66.09
1991 69.97
1992 71.04
1993 75.25
1994 75.37
1995 73.66
1996 67.13
1997 74.59
1998 75.24
1999 71.14
2000 49.19
2001 58.96
2002 56.93
2003 56.51
2004 53.22
2005 56.37
2006 53.24
2007 48.60
2008 44.52
2009 41.89
2010 44.59
2011 45.49
2012 46.77
2013 41.09
2014 40.20
2015 39.57
2016 39.79
2017 42.89
2018 43.07
2019 44.35
2020 44.79

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