Ethiopia - Merchandise imports from low- and middle-income economies outside region (% of total merchandise imports)

Merchandise imports from low- and middle-income economies outside region (% of total merchandise imports) in Ethiopia was 38.38 as of 2020. Its highest value over the past 60 years was 57.06 in 2013, while its lowest value was 1.94 in 1985.

Definition: Merchandise imports from low- and middle-income economies outside region are the sum of merchandise imports by the reporting economy from other low- and middle-income economies in other World Bank regions 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 8.76
1961 8.82
1962 11.54
1963 9.84
1964 10.46
1965 9.40
1966 8.75
1967 10.57
1968 8.03
1969 10.63
1970 11.56
1971 11.61
1972 11.42
1973 13.66
1974 13.63
1975 13.54
1976 5.57
1977 6.57
1978 6.43
1979 4.60
1980 4.19
1981 2.89
1982 2.56
1983 2.60
1984 1.99
1985 1.94
1986 1.94
1987 5.30
1988 4.61
1989 7.17
1990 7.15
1991 10.60
1992 8.79
1993 8.63
1994 10.87
1995 10.61
1996 13.63
1997 15.88
1998 15.59
1999 18.47
2000 36.76
2001 27.61
2002 26.73
2003 28.16
2004 29.02
2005 28.41
2006 30.50
2007 38.89
2008 35.90
2009 47.44
2010 46.00
2011 46.95
2012 48.47
2013 57.06
2014 49.65
2015 45.30
2016 45.54
2017 42.55
2018 39.81
2019 38.86
2020 38.38

Development Relevance: Although global integration has increased, low- and middle-income economies still face trade barriers when accessing other markets.

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