Fragile and conflict affected situations - Merchandise imports from high-income economies (% of total merchandise imports)

Merchandise imports from high-income economies (% of total merchandise imports) in Fragile and conflict affected situations was 39.20 as of 2020. Its highest value over the past 60 years was 83.59 in 1976, while its lowest value was 39.20 in 2020.

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 79.88
1961 79.30
1962 80.31
1963 77.74
1964 74.81
1965 76.23
1966 77.95
1967 77.98
1968 77.19
1969 77.08
1970 77.72
1971 78.69
1972 77.45
1973 77.03
1974 76.35
1975 81.38
1976 83.59
1977 83.20
1978 83.20
1979 81.62
1980 80.88
1981 82.93
1982 81.66
1983 79.81
1984 76.25
1985 76.34
1986 77.91
1987 77.19
1988 79.15
1989 77.47
1990 74.85
1991 74.05
1992 72.82
1993 72.73
1994 68.26
1995 66.32
1996 62.65
1997 66.11
1998 66.27
1999 63.84
2000 60.09
2001 59.39
2002 58.10
2003 54.38
2004 51.52
2005 51.64
2006 51.20
2007 46.69
2008 44.49
2009 42.48
2010 44.15
2011 46.88
2012 45.74
2013 44.20
2014 43.27
2015 42.50
2016 41.98
2017 42.38
2018 43.56
2019 42.12
2020 39.20

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