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

Merchandise exports to low- and middle-income economies outside region (% of total merchandise exports) in Ethiopia was 20.79 as of 2020. Its highest value over the past 60 years was 58.92 in 2001, while its lowest value was 2.72 in 1978.

Definition: Merchandise exports to low- and middle-income economies outside region are the sum of merchandise exports from the reporting economy to 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 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 10.28
1961 9.44
1962 8.50
1963 7.34
1964 7.44
1965 5.80
1966 8.41
1967 9.11
1968 9.90
1969 11.50
1970 9.89
1971 10.68
1972 12.67
1973 14.02
1974 14.15
1975 21.72
1976 14.24
1977 8.33
1978 2.72
1979 6.86
1980 11.60
1981 7.86
1982 10.78
1983 8.65
1984 7.50
1985 4.47
1986 4.47
1987 9.39
1988 5.60
1989 6.07
1990 14.79
1991 3.86
1992 6.83
1993 13.52
1994 11.29
1995 15.11
1996 12.09
1997 11.70
1998 10.54
1999 18.14
2000 17.62
2001 58.92
2002 25.78
2003 35.29
2004 18.06
2005 26.99
2006 23.57
2007 22.64
2008 20.87
2009 36.78
2010 28.59
2011 29.19
2012 31.35
2013 24.77
2014 27.86
2015 22.81
2016 26.73
2017 22.00
2018 23.35
2019 23.30
2020 20.79

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: Exports