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

Merchandise exports to high-income economies (% of total merchandise exports) in Fragile and conflict affected situations was 42.66 as of 2020. Its highest value over the past 60 years was 82.22 in 1971, while its lowest value was 42.66 in 2020.

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 69.81
1961 69.68
1962 70.88
1963 71.20
1964 70.39
1965 71.50
1966 72.88
1967 73.72
1968 74.47
1969 75.36
1970 75.36
1971 82.22
1972 72.71
1973 76.09
1974 76.91
1975 75.39
1976 75.95
1977 77.03
1978 80.53
1979 79.79
1980 75.33
1981 69.24
1982 72.00
1983 73.92
1984 72.42
1985 78.43
1986 73.16
1987 74.25
1988 72.97
1989 73.32
1990 75.90
1991 76.46
1992 75.59
1993 73.85
1994 71.93
1995 70.56
1996 64.25
1997 66.05
1998 66.53
1999 69.20
2000 67.64
2001 66.70
2002 64.87
2003 64.50
2004 60.43
2005 63.76
2006 66.41
2007 65.42
2008 65.53
2009 60.36
2010 63.97
2011 60.44
2012 60.30
2013 55.68
2014 51.16
2015 49.52
2016 50.85
2017 50.90
2018 48.48
2019 48.19
2020 42.66

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